Sentences with phrase «school community do»

Ever wonder why some of the most talented parents in your school community don't connect with your group?

Fourth, as we focus on the wisdom of our school community we do not always consider students, parents and community partners as potential members of our communities of practice.

The school community does an amazing job of providing food to students and families but this support was not available while the school was closed.

Stung by the pain of a broken promise, members of the James Weldon Johnson Elementary School community did their utmost Wednesday night to convince the new chief of the Recovery School District to resurrect a plan to move their campus to a safer, more prestigious site a few blocks away.

Not exact matches

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

While the curriculum is designed for high school and community college students — and select schools will start offering the curriculum this fall — you don't have to attend school to learn to code in Swift, Apple's programming language.

The systematic gutting of publicly funded education — be it in elementary schools or in colleges — was done by officials we've elected, many of whom have received strong support from members of the business community who regularly complain about the lack of a prepared workforce.

«We can't just be a southwestern Ontario school doing business in our own backyard, as we need to develop skills and knowledge to successfully participate in a global community,» he said.

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

As the community mourns, lawmakers in Florida are responding with mixed ideas on what to do to address the recurring issue of gun violence in the state and the national trend of terrorists continually targeting schools.

Do you actively make contact with your local universities (such as at back to school fairs or community events)?

So perhaps, before you go onto internet message boards trashing science, which you clearly do not understand, you should enroll in some remedial high school level science classes at your local community college.

having been a member of the vandy community in a professional school, this move by the admin does not suprise me.

I work in California... what I do is behavioral based counseling for children who have behavioral issues, be it in the home or the school or community.

AB, if you don't understand that not all people in a community of 310 million are going to have the same fortunes, abilities, and wherewithal to succeed (a subjective term) or not succeed, then you should probably go back to school to complete your education.

If there is more than one, do they shape different aspects of the school's common life (one shaping its teaching and learning, another its life of worship, perhaps another its common life as a community of students, faculty, and staff)?

[4] When theological schooling is defined as preparation for filling the functions that make up the role of professional church leadership, graduates turn out to be incapable of nurturing and guiding congregations as worshiping communities, the health of whose common life depends on the quality of the theology that is done there.

Do you have any advice or ideas for those of us at home with small children, or working the daily grind 9 - 5 jobs, or in school full - time to honor our commitments to family, work and school while simultaneously working to benefit our communities?

It isn't until I sit down and do my work again that I return to the rest of my life — homemaking, raising children, community, church, school, marriage, all of it — as my most true self.

My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional school board meeting... When doing inter-faith work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our community) as a positive.

Dewey actively sought out ways in which the habits of doing, thinking, and feeling required for a free and open community of inquirers could be fostered in the schools.

Stemming as they did from monastic schools and cathedral schools, they assumed intimate communities that provided an environment of moral and spiritual formation.

While it's probably acceptable that public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our public school system bend over backwards for religion.

While many schools have gone to great lengths to prevent another Columbine from happening in their own communities, most Americans don't place the blame for school violence on school officials or on a lack of security.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

As we are seeking to do in Grove City, I believe our children need us to come together, community, church and school.

Once it does, it won't be long before the American scientific community — which already has trouble finding enough young Americans to fill its graduate schools — ceases to lead the world.»

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

The first, superficial impression is that the Protestant theological schools in the United States and Canada do not consciously count themselves members of one community but function as though they were responsible to many different societies.

Trouble is that many of the immigrant «communities» are doing just that, witness the islamic «curriculum» being plied in British publicly - funded schools (or independent sharia courts, or mass halal distribution, or..

The temporal community - my school, my club, my town, my nation, or what have you - does surround me with neighbors, each of whom is a matter of transcendent consequence.

After heavy snow fall in the area, he's been clearing sidewalks around an elementary school, explaining to a local news station, «I don't want kids or parents having to go through the snow and possibly trip or hurt themselves... The community has supported me immensely with my struggles and tough times as I had a leg amputated and my fight with brain cancer.

It is striking that he does not ground that unity immediately in the ministerial duties for which the school prepares leadership insofar as these duties fall into a coherent pattern around a pastoral director's proximate goal of nurturing community.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

The actual number by that date was probably not much more than a third of that total; furthermore, despite the good that existing centers have done and are doing, the plan's most imaginative features — those that would bring such centers into close contact with schools, churches, the police, and other responsible community organizations — are the ones that have been least realized.

Why does «school» have to tell you everything — can't you learn things from your co-workers, neighbors, community or just day - to - day living?

The central issue here can be focused by asking the question as concretely as possible: How does a given theological school understand the relationship between itself as a community and a Christian congregation as a community?

But I must also ask a utilitarian, pietistic question: how does God speak to me and to my communities (family, school, local church, denomination) through this text?

How does the school seem to understand itself as a community in relation to churches?

Of itself that does not constitute the community as a theological school.

Anyways, my school didn't have a gym so every friday we would walk about 15 minutes to a local community centre and alternate between swimming, indoor gym class, and skating (in the winter).

Your website has been a blessing to those who need help out in the community, schools, church groups, toddlers... I liked your recipe website [What's Cooking] that featured recipes done by kids.

For one, while schools might shut down, often the community does not.

«We're doing a lot of outreach with local community colleges, technical and trade schools and military programs, where retired military people who have learned great skills are able to bring some of those to us,» he explains.

I know and appreciate that Fair Trade has done many worthwhile and wonderful things for coffee growing cooperative communities, including invaluable projects such as schools and clinics.

From our School Beverage Guidelines commitment to our most recent commitment, the Balance Calories Initiative, we are doing the hard work to encourage real and sustainable change in communities across the country.

«Often, when you're rooting for a Purdue [his school] or a Missouri [mine], it's because it connects you with some community or cultural experience - four years of college, tailgating with friends, something you can continue to do each year.

Everybody wants to do something for the community of Newtown, Connecticut after the terrible shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Last year, COF played home games at West Memphis» Mid-South Community College and a local Catholic high school, but scheduling at those venues didn't work out this season.