Sentences with phrase «seeking culture and community»

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Institutions offering separate women - only swim hours demonstrate that they seek to include in their community people from many different cultures, faiths, and traditions, representing a range of values, beliefs, and experiences.

Interpreters of Scripture should seek the help of the Christian community, past and present, in order that insights can be shared, humility fostered, and biases of culture and theological tradition overcome.

It must recognize the pagan nature of its surrounding culture, and seek to become God's alternative community.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

At the same time marginal groups like Dalits and tribals are seeking a new identity for themselves based on their past religion and cultures which had been suppressed or destroyed by dominant communities.

Following Jesus into freedom will look different in different situations, with different people, who live in different cultures, all of whom have different gifts, desires, strengths, abilities, and who seek to love and serve different neighbors and people in different communities.

Families best served at SWS are those whose values are compatible with the culture of the school as an educational community, who share SWS's educational goals, and who seek the unique character of Waldorf Education for their children.

One Virtual Breastfeeding Culture: Seeking Mother to Mother Support in the Digital Age book by Lara Audelo: a new book about the online support communities that mothers have built for themselves; share the journeys of 30 breastfeeding mothers who narrate their own stories of finding valuable support and life - changing friendships online.

The Green Café Network (GCN), a project of the non-profit Earth Island Institute, seeks to reduce Americans» environmental impacts by greening the coffeehouse industry and harnessing cafe culture for community environmental awareness.

NUNM is located in Portland, Oregon, a haven for those seeking well — being, community, culture and natural beauty — an ideal place to study natural medicine.

Free Dating America offers an exciting platform for the Asian community throughout the USA to establish options and discover a wide range of dating options relative to the needs of those who seek the company of people with similar backgrounds and cultures.

The teacher seeks to understand students» families, cultures, and communities, and uses this information as a basis for connecting instruction to students» experiences (e.g., drawing explicit connections between subject matter and community matters, making assignments that can be related to students» experiences and cultures).

Perhaps it may be argued that society has shifted its values away from bettering the person to bettering the profit, and that education now seeks to create a culture consisting of employable skills rather than creating a community of culture.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

The Whole Child model seeks to work with best practices to achieve engaging and challenging instruction, develop a school culture that promotes a healthy and safe climate for student learning and leadership that involves faculty, students, parents and the community to maximize the supportive potential in school and provide for long - term student success with sustainable strategies.

To rebuild the foundation necessary for the formative assessment - rich classroom culture you seek, the community needs to redefine the tone, values, and supports to make it come to life.

It's interesting how many parallels there are between the approach of the principal in the hallway and that of teachers who seek not so much to manage their students as to create a culture in which every member is dignified by his or her contribution to a shared classroom community.

More and more, schools are seeking to retain teachers by creating collaborative cultures through professional learning communities, or PLCs; critical friends» groups, or CFGs; or teams comprised of grade level or content teachers who meet daily to discuss teaching and learning, student progress, and share best practices.

Weilenmann School of Discovery has always sought to create a community of students, parents and teachers where positive school culture and a close - knit feeling prevail.

Throughout our work, we value and seek diversity — our own as well as that of our students and their communities — and recognize that practice is strengthened when we incorporate multiple ways of knowing that are informed by culture and experience.

Mentoring and coaching a new generation of teachers can provide a new challenge for teachers seeking to grow and develop as professionals, and teaching adults can also help mentor teachers reflect on and improve their own practices.19 What's more, the structures that are often part of these programs — mentoring, instructional coaching, professional learning communities, peer - to - peer professional development, and co-teaching — all serve to make schools more collaborative and reflective places to work, 20 which improves school culture and achievement.21

Through our academic publishing program, we seek to meet the publication needs of the religious studies academic community worldwide with works on the Hebrew Bible and Hebrew language, ancient Near Eastern studies and archaeology, New Testament and Greek language, biblical theology, Judaism, patristics, church history, historical theology, practical theology, and religion and culture.

People in group 5 have the highest susceptibility due to the length of travel, their intention behind travel to immerse themselves into local culture and the adventures they seek to learn the ins and outs of a community.

As Anderskov acknowledges, backpackers seek each other out, and the travel communities themselves — not the host cultures — ultimately become the focus of travel.

From a magical journey in Turkey to dancing tango on the main stage in Buenos Aires, Mickela seeks out the traditional side of every culture while connecting with the local community through celebration and artistic expression.

The surfing community and those seeking sunshine, culture and relaxation will enjoy travelling to Nicaragua's Pacific Coast.

The surfing community and those seeking sunshine, culture and relaxation will enjoy travelling to Nicaragua.

Founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement, ABC No Rio seeks to facilitate cross-pollination between artists and activists, and is a place where people share resources and ideas to impact society, culture, and community.

Art Room is a creative, curatorial team that seeks contemporary art to engage the Dallas / Fort Worth community through exhibitions, which showcase a diverse culture of local, regional, and national emerging and mid-career artists in a variety of media.

The Visiting Artist Series is sponsored by the LTCC Foundation and hosted by the LTCC Art Club, a community of art students interested in a variety of mediums, cooperating together in artistic endeavors, who seek to promote and enrich the artistic culture of our community.

Like the Organization of Black American Culture in the same city, which had created the Wall of Respect, the first of many murals by community arts organizations, AFRI - COBRA sought «to liberate its audience and define a national Black consciousness «9 This effort was in part a response to a climate that permitted what now seem acts of amazing insensitivity by mainstream institutions.

Since its founding, NOON has sought to provide the global art community with a report on the diverse communication and research in contemporary visual culture, with particular emphasis on the relationship between theories and contexts of a wide variety of fields.

With the collapse of the Tang dynasty, this escapism into the natural world became even more prominent among the cultured men, who found the idea of seeking a safe haven in the mountains more appealing than dealing with the failure of human community and the chaos of the dynastic subsidence.

In So Perfect Sharon Koelblinger draws upon the history of intentional communities and considers what there is to be gained (and lost) by individuals seeking out a utopian counter culture.

Hudson worked with a local migrants» rights charity Investing in People and Culture to tell deeper stories about the experience of seeking asylum, and included a food bank, free internet access and «community days» in the show.

Others simply celebrated the diversity and tolerance of the local community («vibrant southwest Hispanic neighborhood offering great classical Mexican culture, restaurants, and businesses»), or sought to appeal to some groups without excluding anyone («Great apartment for graduate students, married couple, or small family»).

Many associates seek a culture that values diversity and promotes community or bar association involvement and pro bono activities.

Judges will be seeking to highlight an In - House Counsel who has shown a commitment to aligning the interests of the organization with those of their stakeholders, contributing to the wellbeing of communities, and to instilling a culture of ethics, good governance and corporate integrity.

The Nextlaw Referral Network member firms are «in and of» the communities they serve, with an intimate knowledge of the legal, business and social cultures our clients seek.

Randy Hain is a coach, business leader, consultant, community servant, author and sought ‐ after speaker, fluent in such diverse topics as workplace culture, candor, authenticity, servant leadership, growing business relationships and career strategy.

Worked successfully with representatives from various communities, organizations and neighborhoods with respect to the diverse populations and cultures the Company serves and seeks to serve.

Additionally, you will: * Lead with Heart — display empathy and compassion for your patients, customers, caregivers and colleagues on your team * Motivate, inspire and develop your Pharmacy Support Staff by balancing assignments that maximize colleagues» strengths, address development opportunities and decrease knowledge gaps * Identify critical business opportunities and meaningful solutions to drive growth and improve performance in your pharmacy * Successfully implement those solutions by leading your team to achieve specified goals * Adapt to change and adjust plans to thrive in a dynamic community healthcare setting * Seek new ways to grow, collaborate with others and deliver better outcomes * Align others around purpose to gain support and commitment * Facilitate a «team» culture that promotes caring, energy, enthusiasm and pride * Apply acquired knowledge to help drive healthy outcomes and differentiate CVS from competitors * The above represents a summary of the functions of a Pharmacy Manager.

United States About Blog The American Catholic is an online community of Christians, motivated by a rich heritage of Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition, seeking to engage American society and culture in pursuit of the common good.

We are a diverse community of people seeking a renewed approach to Christian spirituality and committed to live the teachings of Jesus in the culture and context of our city.

The debates contest strategies that, on the one hand, seek to «normalise» Indigenous students through assimilation and integration with mainstream society, and on the other, seek to preserve Indigenous languages and culture within Indigenous communities.

The answers we seek, relate to how we can connect to the community and create places and spaces where everyone from all cultures feels included.

Additionally, based on information in the OKDHS Bridge to the Future proposal, the Bridge was defined as a component of the OKDHS practice model that seeks to view «practice through the eyes of the child and seeks to ensure that children in care maintain connections to their kin, culture, and community while in out of home care.»

It seeks to celebrate the great diversity of culture and language represented by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Muru Mittigar Limited The Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural and Education Centre (Muru Mittigar) seeks to create a better understanding of Aboriginal culture in the wider community; create new jobs; develop workplace skills training and increase sustained employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians where the organisation operates.

«We are thrilled for the opportunity to expand our presence in this dynamic community boasting a unique combination of culture and climate that is highly attractive to homebuyers seeking a tropical lifestyle,» says Sherry Chris, president and CEO, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC.