Sentences with phrase «teaching the community how»

The organization has also been teaching the community how TNR for community cats is good public policy, as it effectively and humanely manages the community cat population, reduces shelter intake and «euthanasia» numbers, and reduces calls to animal control agencies, saving taxpayer dollars in the process.

Completed in May 2015, the Gladiolus Education Garden of Delray Beach, Florida now serves to teach the community how to grow healthy foods in a beautiful new setting.

Not exact matches

The initiative is intended to teach small businesses how to use Facebook to generate new customers, retain existing ones and build an online community through things like buying display ads targeting specific markets as well as other cost - free measures.

They're doing it through dozens of workshops held in community centers, libraries, YMCA's, and municipal buildings, where anywhere from 40 to 60 women (and sometimes a few men) work their way through a two - hour curriculum that teaches them how to figure out how much they should be paid, how to make their case to an employer, and how to gracefully exit a negotiation that might not be going well.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Among them: intensive community gardens that provide a therapeutic space where members are taught how to grow their own vegetables; programs that teach young mothers about proper nutrition; workshops where local residents learn about food security and receive public - speaking training; and after - school classes where tweens whip up healthy meals.

A great mentor can teach you how to handle the Silicon Valley tech community, which events to attend (online, if not in - person), which influencers to contact, and how to understand your competition.

Ridge describes how a focus on the servant leadership principles of values, learning, teaching, growth, and community can lead to enhanced performance by helping people step into the best version of themselves.

To teach me how to transition properly from an academic point of view to a practical business point of view.How has being part of the Kode With Klossy community transformed your experience of learning to code?

Where as my time in the startup community taught me to find my niche, find the people who suffer from that pain, listen to what potential customers are saying rather then convince the customer my way is right, find the people who want to join my cause, «volunteer management», how to deal with failure both emotional and rationally how to listen to «advice» and seperate the wheat from the chaff quicker (e.g. become more coachable) and be more willing to re-invent the plan.

Haaretz: With help of popular taboo - breaking book, Haredim teach children about sexual abuse The success of a new book aimed at helping ultra-Orthodox parents teach their children how to protect themselves from sexual abuse is a strong indication that a community once reluctant to acknowledge the crime is now beginning to face reality.

Jesus teaches us how to resolve conflict in a church community.

Here are some specifics on how this «always worship together rule» has now infiltrated our lives: Fred occasionally teaches Sunday School at my Baptist Church; I fully participation in his faith community's services and rituals during Hindu festival weekends.

Church leaders need to proactively show their members how to serve and who to love in the community, not just preach and teach about it.

I considered hiring someone to teach me how to do this without crying, someone to show me how to speak, I contemplated asking for a few small - scale Bible study speaking things at church to practice with my own community and friends first.

Or the Sonke Gender Justice movement in South Africa that seeks to teach men how to end unequal treatment of women in their homes and communities.

By centering this article on communities, I have not mentioned, for example, those who taught me most about how — as distinct from what — to think theologically and historically: Robert L. Calhoun and H. Richard Niebuhr of Yale, and Paul Vignaux of Paris.

Our failure as a community to teach the full range of prayer and even how to pray starves it.

They have no outreach plans for the poor, no teaching to stregnthen marriage, no idea on how to lower crime in our communities.

How does one understand a vocation to theological scholarship in the midst of competing loyalties to family and children, to church and other communities, to the institution where one teaches, to the guild, and to one's own internal rhythms of work, rest, and playfulness?

The book of Acts really teaches us that it's all too easy — even with all the gifts of grace we have received — for the Christian community to almost entirely fall our of step with that freedom and virtually abandon the message of life (Paul talks in Galatians about how he stood alone for the Gospel).

The Church teaches many things about the way in which society should work: about the laws we make, about how we treat one another and respect each other's rights, about behaving justly with our money, about the value of human life and the duties we owe to the communities in which we live.

David Novak wonders how a Jew like me can teach at a Christian divinity school in light of my «opposition to the dialogue» of the two communities and my belief that their «relationship necessarily involves mutual repugnance» (««Instinctive Repugnance,»» May).

How many phony baloney Christians follow the teachings of their avatar and will go to the community center when in New York, introduce themselves and shake hands with them?

This is odd for a people who have been taught that we must confess our sin by being trained by a community that has learned how to name those aspects of our lives that stand in the way of our being Jesus» disciples.

In that book I also tried to suggest how Jesus» teaching, combined with the experience of the earliest community of believers, led to the emergence of the Christian structure.

The New Testament is devoted to teaching people how to be in community with the crazy, odd and wildly different people of God.

In the next several posts, I am going to make some practical suggestions for how churches can practice healthy teaching, and not only learn the Scriptures, but also put into practice what has been learned in tangible ways in the community.

And if so, how do you go about correcting theological error in a community that is already so wounded and vulnerable because they have grown up battered by «biblical» teaching?

I then taught hundreds of people how to eat delicious and easy vegan food in my local and online classes, and grew a community of over 10,000 people!

My role as a coach is to teach my athletes how the values associated with character, commitment, community, and results are essential to reaching their full potential as student - athletes.

Community education specialist Pearl Simmons on how to teach your child to be a cooperative and caring older sibling.

This book is an invaluable resource that walks mothers and families through the steps of customizing their postpartum care and teaches them how to call upon a postpartum community care team.

While this post was originally published on April 26, 2011, it's a good reminder of how Attachment Parenting dovetails with teaching the next generation about caring for our communities and planet.

This community has taught me how to be an advocate and a warrior.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Now's the perfect time of year to make a difference in your community while also teaching your kids how to be compassionate and thankful, though.

Of course, kids need to be taught how to interact in positive ways, use healthy coping skills and be educated on community / family values

The Chef Instructors held a «Train the Trainer» session for the current cohort of school Garden Educators, teaching them how to implement the Chefs in the Garden curriculum as well as teach others, such as teachers or community volunteers, to conduct the lessons.

Parent education class at school or community to teach PARENTS how to teach children.

I graduated from a small high school, where the principal was very much interested in the poor and the hungry, and in public policy; he taught us how to be an advocate for the helpless people in our community and in our state.»

Whether we're teaching our kids about consent, making sure they understand privilege, raising them to be body positive, or anything else, we've got our eye on how our parenting choices not only affect our families, but the broader communities to which we belong and contribute.

I teach you how to prepare in pregnancy for the most supported postpartum possible, which is so needed in modern times with many women so alone and without a community to help.

Health providers and community workers can teach parents how to prepare replacement milks safely and help them address attitudes in the community toward women who do not breastfeed.

The poster contest was started years ago to teach children «how important it is to keep our community green,» said committee chairman David Cichanowicz.

These range from killing the sense of idleness through intense sport, to sharing a talent with the local community - such as teaching neighbours how to cultivate the land in an ecologically sound way.

But it is not surprising that Will Yandik who was born in Hudson and raised in this community was not afraid to take on long odds because that is what this community has taught me how to do,» he said.

Drop out of community college; they are not teaching you how to think critically about important matters.

What we don't want to see, of course, is any kind of dilution in how thoroughly children are taught about the beliefs, religious or otherwise, of others, since such education plays a vital role in contributing to community cohesion and to literary, historical and cultural education.

«That's why this program is so important, because what we're doing is educating our citizens, we're educating our teachers, our religious leaders, our Boy Scout leaders, our Boys Club leaders, our athletic coaches, we're educating the entire community who have a responsibility and role in molding and teaching our children how to recognize and prevent child sexual abuse.»