Sentences with phrase «sense in smaller communities»

This approach makes more sense in smaller communities where there isn't a ready supply of new teachers and leaders, and where the current staff won't have other job options.

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How do you re-create that sense of small - town coziness with your online community, considering they may be spread from Seattle to Sarasota and, well, can't just pop in to ask to borrow a cup of sugar?

Ultimately, your tribe can enjoy the same sense of community we find in small towns — people know each other, like each other, and help each other.

To be honest, the community did not truly care in sense of deed â $ «in word yes â $ «but in deed it was very small.

A sense of humor, an ability to read social cues, a willingness to become «one of the boys or girls» (provided you know where to stop)-- these are what small communities value in their pastors.

I believe that the community — in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures — is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.»

A break in one connection, such as attachment to a stable community, puts pressure on other connections: marriage, the relationship between parents and children, religious affiliation, a feeling of connection with the past, even citizenship, that sense of membership in a large community which grows best when it is grounded in membership in a small one.

But there is another sense in which small groups may not be fostering community as effectively as many of their proponents would like.

If it is objected that production in and for small communities would be less efficient than large - scale centralized production, it could be answered, first, that when the true costs of transportation are calculated, this may not be true, and second, that efficiency in that sense is less important than a good life in a self - reliant community that has some control over its own destiny.

As small towns, small firms, inner cities, in spite of and at times, in their own way, because of gentrification, decline, and suburban life styles become increasingly mobile, privatized, and fragmented, the loss of the sense of community is more acute.

«Produce is a global business but, in a sense, it is a very small, intimate community.

She brought in a small team of people with strong ties to the Los Angeles food community who seemed to have an uncanny sense what Los Angeles diners wanted in their restaurants.

It's a small way to get children involved in the political process while helping to create a better sense of community and appreciation.

I decided to create this space out of sheer frustration with my job and the (incredibly) small town I was living in and the lack of community with whom I could relate to, I yearned for that sense of belonging to a community where I could share my amor for fashion.

I am your average kinda of gal!I am First Nations.Come from a small community in Saskatchewan.I've been told I have a great sense of humor, I like going for walks, listen to the 80s music.

Which means it makes a whole lot of sense for gay people in small communities to have such a tough time dating.

Let's be real folks, there is no sense in paying for tall dating sites because the community is rather small.

The people in the small, isolated community of Covington, Pennsylvania, live with a constant sense of fear.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

In general, smaller schools are thought to be easier to manage and to carry a greater sense of community among students and teachers.

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

To answer their concerns, Dollars & Sense summarizes research on the educational and social benefits of small schools and the negative effects of large schools on students, teachers, and members of the community, as well as the «diseconomies of scale» inherent in large schools.

It was through talking and listening to people in small towns that I started to get a sense of just how closely tied their lives can be, and how strongly they rely on the community and each other, for better or worse.

I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.

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But I believe that this bar association will thrive if we can recapture a sense of community we had back in the day, when the bar was smaller and 100 lawyers would show up every Tuesday for lunch at the bar association office, just to get together.

Aaron Street: I guess with today's conversation with Nicole about technology design and access to justice, it's another good opportunity for us to step back and kind of chat about what this access to justice goal is all about and how our listeners and the small firm legal community in general can support it in a way that makes sense.

A small city in Kentucky's Logan County and with just under 7,000 residents, Russellville, KY offers the small town sense of community that so many people value.

This video demonstrates a small, well - planned strategy to enhance a family's sense of inclusion and belonging in a school community.

More professionals need to take a leadership role in providing opportunities for small groups of parents to meet in community settings such as churches or schools in order to create a sense of connection, support, and to lessen the isolation and alienation parents often face.

«A small local association offers a sense of community,» says one small - association AE in Florida.

Smaller office product is also simply easier to manage and to create a sense of community in.