Sentences with phrase «toward social equity»

Teaching in an inner city school was an opportunity to integrate myself in the movement toward social equity but also, I believe, a better use of my skills.

Not exact matches

In social life, God commands that all cases shall be judged with equity; justice and charity are required; no injustices shall be done to people because of hatred toward them; all life is made sacred by God and may not be ended except through justice.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

In «Foregrounding Equity in Teacher Education: Toward a Model of Social Justice Pedagogical and Content Knowledge,» authors Jeanne Dyches of Iowa State University and Ashley Boyd of Washington State University lay out the theoretical model they call Social Justice Pedagogical and Content Knowledge, or SJPACK.

She has assisted CSUN, LAUSD, the Ventura Unified School District, UTLA, and UCLA Teacher Preparation Program professors among others in their journeys in teaching toward equity and social justice.

Schools need to have a commitment toward equity, social justice, and cultural consciousness.

With continued anti-immigrant sentiment reflected in our executive branch and now in many states as well as across the globe, school policies compel urgent curricular transformation and a renewal to a commitment toward equity, social justice, and cultural consciousness.

They argue, as well, that school leaders should expect all staff to work toward equity, democracy and social justice for all students and their families.

If your Social Security income, any pension payments, home equity reserve, etc. would be enough to cover most of your expenses even during a prolonged market downturn, then maybe you can afford to tilt that baseline mix more toward stocks.

ISSA provides a wealth of resources and specialized training for groups to take the first steps toward engaging in positive conversations about diversity, social justice, inclusion and equity.