Sentences with phrase «parents around a vision»

Also a retreat leader focused on mindfulness for leaders, self - compassion and permissioning in leadership and social action, Kirsten was a founding board member of the Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA), a national not - for - profit organizing educational leaders, teachers, students, and parents around a vision for education founded in greater equity, social justice, compassion and passionate learning.

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During the days and weeks following the BC election a question has bounced around my mind, and the boardrooms of Vision Critical, our parent company which I chair: «Why bother?»

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

Remember that your baby's color vision doesn't fully kick in until around 3 months of age, says Parents Magazine.

Every day, Melanie and her team passionately pursue their vision to design new modern essentials for parents around the world.

Once this relationship is growing, it then means authentically involving community members in all phases of the design process — starting from exploring great schools that help the group to imagine what's possible, coming to consensus around what a great school is or could be, designing based on the visions and rooted in the hopes of the community, engaging students and parents as critical friends who shape and improve prototypes, and empowering parents and other community members to play key roles in the launch and leadership of the school.

HISTORY: LMS began as a group of dedicated parents, teachers, and community members with a vision of offering authentic and free public Montessori education to as many children as possible in and around Beaufort, SC.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Massive Image 1991 acrylic on canvas Robert Motherwell born Aberdeen, Wash. 1915 died Provincetown, Mass. 1991 Museum purchase made possible by Doris E. Black; Donald F. Broda in honor of Kathleen L. Broda; Natalie Harris; Sally Foley Hughston; Pat Hurst Jordan, in memory of her parents, Dr. A. E. and Ruth Hurst; Jan J. Miller; Babette M. Rothschild; Sandy Bartlett Scarborough; Marge Tilley, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Platt; Rebecca K. Yarbrough, in honor of Dr. Sidney H. Yarbrough III; special assistance from the Ella E. Kirven Charitable Lead Trust for Acquisitions; and a gift from the Dedalus Foundation 2000.13.5 The large scale of Massive Image wraps around the peripheral vision and overwhelms the viewer.

BSLI Vision Star Plan is a traditional Money Back Child Plan designed to secure the child's future even if the parent is not around thus giving the parent peace of mind

I help parents change the course of the family back to their original family vision, and I help children learn how to be respectful, responsible, and fun to be around.»

Almost 20 years later, their vision continues to be a reality in communities around the world, as we work to grow awareness and support for parents and child wellbeing.

Over the years developing his own vision and approach to reconnect children with both of their parents / families, from personal and professional experience and study, combining many case studies and knowledge from other experts around the world and professional network.