Sentences with phrase «women teachers leading»

Moreover, the rise of social media has resulted in new networks of evangelicals with women teachers leading the way.

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«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.

Is it any wonder, then, that the early church included female apostles, deacons, teachers, and church planters and that the women are described as teaching, leading, prophesying, serving, and financing?

In former times there were women's mosques in some parts of China, used as religious and charitable centers for women and led by women religious teachers.

Her Prenatal Yoga Teacher training offers yoga instructors full insight into a pregnant woman's experience and helps yoga teachers develop compassion and skills for leading prenatal yoga classes.

As president of New York State United Teachers — a union whose 600,000 - plus membership is more than 70 percent women — I am proud to be leading a steering committee that is exploring issues of particular importance to women in today's society — issues like the minimum wage, child care and paid family leave.

He has played a leading part in supporting women teachers to play an active role in the leadership of the ITU and has led an NASUWT - supported training programme for ITU members in Iraq.

Instead, she will lead an effort between the American Federation of Teachers and the state AFL - CIO focused on issues such as wage equity, education opportunities and women in leadership roles.

As part of his NSF CAREER award, Henry has been leading a summer outreach program where African - American and women undergraduates, high school music teachers, and high school students are working to convert the vibrations of atoms into sound files.

Aarona is the author and co-creator of The Moon Deck, teaches yoga classes and retreats globally, leads empowering women's workshops, mentors new yoga teachers, offers private coaching, and created the music modules for the Kula Yoga and Wanderlust teacher training programs.

This training is designed for yoga teachers in training as well as individuals who are already teaching yoga or supporting pregnant women (such as massage therapists, doulas, midwives, registered nurses, doctors etc.) We will review everything you need to know to lead a prenatal yoga class, modify poses for pregnant students that attend your classes, and design a private yoga session for one - on - one students or clients.

Since 2007, volunteer yoga teachers have been going into community facilities and detention centres in Southern Ontario to work with young men and women who are overcoming histories of abuse, neglect, incarceration, gang - involvement, addiction, marginalization and other factors that have led them to be identified as «at risk.»

Based on a best - selling book by Joseph Wambaugh, this is the story of the investigation of the murder of a Philadelphia school teacher and the search for her missing children, which eventually leads the police to two rather eccentric colleagues involved in the dead woman's life.

The curriculum is co-developed and led by refugees and iACT, which runs the project, employs refugee women as teachers and leaders and gives them ongoing support.

However, these women, who are more likely to be people of color or to speak a second language, or both, are generally not as well educated as lead teachers and are usually paid even less.

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Stringer's engagement on Twitter led to her becoming a leader in the weekly #SatChatOC conversations, and to her discovery that the topic of women in education leadership is one that is on the minds of teachers, school leaders, and researchers around the world.

Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, a black women, is one of the most important leaders in the country against corporate education reform, and she led the union in the «Let Us Teach!»

Finding that book club enhanced teachers» experience of themselves as what researchers on white, middle - class American women call «connected knowers» (Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, & Tarule, 1986) prompted us to consider the general potential of peer - led conversation in the professional development of teachers.

Made up of ordinary working men and women, the Group attended art classes and exhibited paintings alongside their day jobs; led by John Cooper, the infamous Walter Sickert was among their guest teachers.

A stooped woman leaning on a cane leads the trio that also includes a teacher and pregnant woman.

Praised for his jewel - like landscapes, park scenes, and sympathetic images of women, William Merritt Chase (1849 — 1916) was a leading American Impressionist painter and an influential teacher in the late 19th century.