Sentences with phrase «social justice efforts»

My clinical interests include working with diverse communities, developmental psychology, and supporting social justice efforts that cultivate healthy communities.

Students report many personal gains from their social justice efforts, including patience, friendship, and feelings of self - efficacy.

Given their dependence on NEA and AFT money — and that both unions are pushing their vassals to embrace their so - called social justice efforts — it wouldn't be shocking if the outfits merely signed what the two unions placed before them.

Students report many personal gains from their social justice efforts, including patience, friendship, and feelings of self - efficacy.

At the Askwith Forums on February 8, a panel will discuss the need for social justice efforts in American education in order to create a more equitable environment for students.

And then they start diving into different social justice efforts that were led by youth, and dissecting those by looking at case studies.

Not exact matches

Timothy Lannon, S.J., cited imperatives of «social justice» and defended the decision as «consistent with our efforts to foster an inclusive, compassionate and respectful campus environment.»

That most theologians, even those whose social location in the white North American middle class, verbally support efforts to achieve the changes needed in our society to make some minimum of justice possible elsewhere, such as in Latin America, is already a testimony to the power of the gospel.

In my judgment, the «Social Principles» of the United Methodists, the «Statement on Economic Justice» of the Lutheran Church in America, the «Statement on Human Rights» of the United Church of Christ, and the World Council of Churches» themes of «Justice, Sustainability and Participation» are models of such efforts.

The Biblical record seems to indicate equal billing for evangelism and for efforts at social justice.

If efforts at social justice are to be effective, we can not shy away from political involvement in the structures of society.

However, as Billy Graham stated at Lausanne's International Congress on World Evangelization, while efforts at social justice are important, they are «not our priority mission.»»

Many thousands of citizens, including many Christians, have been working for social justice for years — through nonprofit organizations, community organizing efforts, and justice - oriented churches.

Modern efforts to seek social justice, which recognize more and more the need for sophisticated social - economic analysis, can not leave that insight behind when seeking guidance from the Bible.

The principal paths that have been followed are an apocalyptic, cataclysmic, second coming to put an end to the present world and the prophetic or social gospel kingdom that has accented the conquest of earth's evil by human effort to increase love and justice in response to God's call.

CNN: Baby boomer nuns revolutionize health care The baby boomer generation's efforts at creating social justice dramatically transformed history — from the Vietnam War to gay rights.

The church has set up programs of social justice, preached utopian ideals, adopted resolutions, urged charity, proclaimed good will among men; but neither the progressive impoverishment of the life of the many nor the growth of the privileges of the few has been stayed by its efforts.

All efforts for social justice are less than pure or sure, he continued.

In his effort to state tentatively and in his own way such apparently dawning agreements the author of this essay must employ the method of polar analysis; that is, he must try to do justice to the dynamic character of that social reality, the Church, by defining certain poles between which it moves or which it represents.

In the Calvinist tradition this was first coupled with the attempt to create a form of theocratic society in Geneva, and then broadened out into the reformist temper of modern Christian liberalism with its effort to bring a wider democratic justice into all social relationships.

This brings us to Wright's response to the objection that working for social justice is an attempt to build the kingdom by our own efforts:

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

Because we know of God's justice and justification by faith, we can differentiate between God's justice and human efforts for social and political justice.

It also succeeds in lifting up the importance of social justice in Christian faith (for example, one clip shows El Salvadorans and North Americans working on a Habitat for Humanity effort).

There are strong social justice arguments for taxing inherited wealth and gains associated with owning land and property because both are largely unrelated to the effort of the wealth owner.

A civil rights lawyer and advocate for racial and social justice, Ms. Wiley joined the de Blasio administration in early 2014 to focus on legal issues as well as on the mayor's efforts to address issues of inequality.

The Governor also unveiled the «Open Doors Campaign,» a new promotional effort highlighting New York's longstanding role as a national leader in the fight for LGBT rights, freedom and social justice.

The Governor also unveiled the «Open Doors Campaign,» a new promotional effort highlighting New York's role as a national leader in the fight for LGBT rights, freedom and social justice.

Such material is made available in an effort to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc..

New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring charter school teachers into the union.

Those efforts got a boost last week when Citizen Action New York, a statewide grassroots group committed to racial, social and economic justice, endorsed his candidacy.

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With Stephanie Jones, he directs the Making Caring Common Project, a national effort to make moral and social development priorities in child - raising and to provide strategies to schools and parents for promoting in children caring, a commitment to justice and other key moral and social capacities.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

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In essence, NCLB was an effort to link «conservative» nostrums of accountability to Great Society notions of «social justice.»

Warren is interested in the development of community leaders through involvement in multiracial political action as well as the outcomes of such efforts in fostering community development, social justice, and school transformation; and is committed to using the results of scholarly research to advance democratic practice.

It is important to note that breaking the cycle of trauma will require a collaborative effort among leaders in the education, health, social services, child welfare, criminal justice, and community development sectors.

I hope we agree that the education system can and should be a motor to drive social justice, helping to build a fairer society, where people are rewarded on the basis of their talents and the efforts they put in.

The American Federation of Teachers and its defenders always like to claim that the millions it and its affiliates spend annually on preserving influence is nothing more than an effort to advance social justice.

Dena's research interests include teacher preparedness to address bullying in the K - 12 school setting and social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions — all in an effort to ensure and foster justice and safe spaces for all.

Her career spans from time as a front line bilingual adolescent crisis counselor, with La Raza Consortium, to spearheading national think tank efforts in education equity and social justice on the boards of Grantmakers for Education, the National Equity Project, and the National Coalition for Community Schools.

She grew up in Seattle when social justice issues made regular headlines and her family was part of activist efforts through the faith community to re-settle Hmong and Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s.

She continues to focus her efforts on school transformation, social justice, and equity through her work as regional director with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education.

Exploring «union reform» efforts in ways that expands the role of teacher voice in education reform efforts, incorporates social justice for students and families and strengthens the quality of the teaching profession

Sarah is excited to combine her experience in public health and education with her commitment to social justice to advance Flamboyan's efforts for empowering D.C. teachers and families to partner together and accelerate academic achievement for children.

The first strand emphasizes programmatic efforts to prepare prospective teachers from a social justice perspective.

From my young efforts in social justice education, I transitioned to youth development programs with historically disengaged children and youth.

Tredway is senior associate for IEL's Leaders for Today and Tomorrow Project, a catalyst for engaging institutions of higher education, school districts, and nonprofits in uncovering and coordinating efforts in social justice preparation, particularly to support of urban and rural leaders in the most vulnerable schools.

Social justice is effort specifically taken to rebalance the injustices faced by any group of people who are routinely, systematically and consistently disregarded and disrespected.