Sentences with phrase «while teaching community»

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While living in Chicago, Jamie taught at the Evanston location for 3 years, where she fell in love with the technique and the amazing community of women.

Catholic teaching elevates the primary importance of families, charities and strong communities - while rejecting the simplistic notion that such institutions render government unnecessary.

Once, my chapel lecture was boycotted by the Bible faculty who believe that Scripture prohibits women from preaching or teaching men, even while whole communities embraced the Gospel through their female graduates.

I left Methodism upon graduation from high school, concluding that while the community had nurtured me all my life, I could not accept all of the teachings in any kind of literal way.

And it is even more natural and reasonable for someone in religious community A to invite people in religious community B who do not believe the teachings of B but do believe the teachings of A to leave B and join A. That, it seems to me, is precisely what Pope Benedict did in establishing the ordinariate for Anglicans who wish to join the Catholic Church while retaining certain aspects of their Anglican heritage.

While I can never recall another instance when Egyptian Christians were so full of rage that they became so bold as to shed decades of fear taught to us by the various and numerous terrors inflicted upon us by members of the Muslim community, I can recall dozens of dozens of instances of Christians being killed by this same community over the past three or four decades.

Learning and teaching are activities that any good community requires, and while they often take place in schools and universities, they also occur in construction trades and farms.

Highly interactive teaching, hands - on experiences, and learner - driven conversations take place in community, as you practice caring for others while being cared for yourself.

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.

She also feels privileged to be involved in ushering in the newest members of her community while providing birth doula support, placenta encapsulation services, and teaching childbirth classes.

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.

She soon found positions in a number of fine D.C. restaurants, but a desire to give back to her community eventually led her to take a job in the DC Central Kitchen, an organization which feeds the hungry while teaching culinary skills to the unemployed.

Some hospitals offer comprehensive childbirth classes that community instructors teach, while some hospitals offer classes tailored to their specific hospital and teach their hospital protocols.

Earthworks Institute strives to improve the quality of life for residents of the Greater Rochester area by providing education and mentoring programs that teach invaluable life - skills and social responsibility, while at the same time building healthy, lasting bonds between land and community.

While the main hiring priority of any school district should be hiring the most qualified teachers who can build up their students the most, building a teaching workforce that is reflective of the community in which they work must be a goal for districts.

Now a graduate student in plant and microbial biology at UC Berkeley, Garcia believes that the teaching and mentoring he received while in community college was essential to launching his scientific career.

While at NYU, Brennan has been actively involved in youth development through Arts in the Community, which attempts to bring college students together with local NYC arts education nonprofits, and through Peer Health Exchange, which focuses on teaching health to ninth graders around NYC.

An undistracted personal practice is vital to continue authentically teaching, while growing the passion for Ashtanga in the community.

Do you dream of being location independent and traveling the world while teaching Yoga and adding value to a growing community?

Whether it's helping out at the soup kitchen, giving a few hours to your local charity shop, or teaching a class in your community, if you're feeling lonely, volunteering is one of the best options on this list because it offers unlimited potential for new relationships while simultaneously pumping the world around you full of glittering goodwill and kindness.

We found a lot of concern among government actors about unregulated, possibly ideologically motivated, schools operating under the radar, while local communities found these schools more open and accessible because they were close and taught lessons in Arabic, rather than in English and French, which are used in public Lebanese schools.

We're certainly not a mass route into teaching, but while we account for just six per cent of all new teachers each year, we now supply over 25 per cent for schools serving low income communities.

This means securing premises, teaching staff, and so on, while holding a public consultation with the local community.

While at the Ed School, she helped run a film workshop for teenagers in Boston, and through the student - created Learning Through Libraries program, taught children in one El Salvadoran community how to use cameras.

And while we can celebrate the increased number of staff and corps members that share the same racial or economic background as the students we teach and the communities we partner with, we must also build a thriving and inclusive culture where all our staff feel valued for their individual experiences, unique leadership, and assets they bring to our work.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

While I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience here, often times I found myself realizing that certain teaching and learning frameworks presented in class were the very same ones espoused and developed for teaching artists and community - based educators, especially those using culturally responsive arts in their practice in urban settings.

«Service learning, in contrast, is a teaching method that combines academic content with direct service experiences in which students provide genuine service to their school or community while extending or deepening their understanding of curricular content.»

While students will take classes in traditional core curriculum, there will be twists, such as a math course on financial literacy and a Spanish course taught in the local community.

The Vietnamese project brings books and the know - how to establish libraries to rural communities, while the project in Thailand aims to improve the integration of the Patani Malay minority by providing teaching in their own language.

Before I came to HGSE I was interested in the big picture of education and while I continue to be interested in the entire sector, I feel more focused on the importance of school leadership and excellent teaching in local communities.

«While I am excited and honored by the chance to serve my alma mater and a university at which I taught for fifteen years, it will be difficult to leave HGSE,» said Ryan in a letter to the Ed School community, announcing his departure.

This means securing premises, teaching staff, etc. while holding a public consultation with the local community.

She also taught at Knox College, in Galesburg, IL, where she participated in the founding of a citizen - led community center while engaging students in community - based learning.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Based on a cross-case analysis of online and on - campus courses, the results of the study indicate that while there was no significant difference between online and on - campus courses in terms of teacher acquisition of knowledge related to CLD instruction and assessment, questions remain about whether distance learning can promote critical self - reflection, culturally responsive teaching practices, and collaboration within schools, when teacher learning is not supported and situated in schools and communities in an ongoing and structured way.

I previously led a four - teacher team at another school as the «professional learning community» lead, while still teaching a full load of classes.

How many teachers are teaching in low - income communities and while some may genuinely love their students, are just not finding success?

Some students will take online courses and engage in small - group instruction, while others will take high - school courses taught by instructors and dual - enrollment courses through Ivy Tech Community College.

This approach encourages scholars to respect themselves and their community while teaching them to hold themselves and each other accountable for their actions.

While the formal or informal leadership roles of teachers may vary in different schools and districts, teacher leadership is broadly defined in the 2011 Teacher Leader Model Standards as «the process by which teachers, individually or collectively, influence their colleagues, principals, and other members of the school community to improve teaching and learning practices with the aim of increased student learning and achievement.»

«For teachers, both that community college teacher and that K - 12 teacher, it's about arming them with deeper insights into where areas of struggle or where areas of acceleration exist within their student populations while allowing them to operate in the pedagogy and teaching style that works for them.»

It was while teaching that she realized the need to do her part to help serve the community she grew up in and decided to run for office, getting elected to the Lynwood School Board at only 23 years old.

Patrick O'Donnell, chair of the Assembly Committee on Education, said that while he supported the idea of community colleges delivering undergraduate CSU curriculum in education, he was hesitant to endorse community colleges having their own teaching credential programs.

In some cases these teachers are paired with university faculty who themselves are learning to teach with technology (Radinsky, Smolin, Lawless, & Newman, 2003), while in others they are brought together from neighboring schools to form collaborative technology - infusion communities (Smolin, Lawless, Newman, & Radinsky, 2003).

Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create innovative school models — to design hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually, funded sustainably by reallocating funds within current budgets.39

In a 2012 study, only 16 percent of teachers were interested in becoming a principal, but twice as many teachers were at least somewhat interested in a teacher leadership role.20 Midcareer teachers, high school teachers, and teachers in low - income community schools were especially interested in «hybrid teaching roles,» which provide teachers with leadership opportunities while keeping them in the classroom part time.21

300 Teach For America corps members and alumni will converge to build their professional skills and capacity while more deeply connecting to one another, and to their communities.

While we continue to debate these issues in our classrooms and legislatures, community college leaders must every day open their doors and teach.

We're gathering resources, revamping our curriculum maps, reviewing text complexity, looking for quality performance - based assessments, revising rubrics, designing rigorous yet engaging lesson plans, attending informational meetings, considering policy changes, educating community members and parents, collaborating every moment we can find — all while loving and teaching our students.