Professional learning community

come upon us as a community. A question we should all be asking ourselves is; how many of us would like for a ruthless tyrant to be roaming the same streets that our kids play on? I am sure that this is a question that we don’t even want to think about. I have been a member of this fine community for a little over 20 years, and as a husband, father, and a friend; my goal is to keep our community safe. It’s been a few years now that a tyrant has been terrorizing our peaceful community and we all…

out the community and show the people that there are African-American teenagers doing good deeds. Compared to the activities we did before, this one was different. Figuring out how to help these people in need was an underlying issue my club was trying to figure out. There are a million possibilities that pop in our heads to help out the community. In high school my Gentlemen of Distinction Club came to the conclusion that a canned good drive would be the perfect way to help out our community.…

Support in Our Communities. The Valley of the Sun YMCA believes that everyone in our community deserves to be healthy, confident, connected and secure. This is why we emphasize the powerful impact of advocacy for our community. With a focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, the Valley of the Sun YMCA collaborates with national and community-based leaders and policymakers to grow the resources and support that helps empower individuals, families and communities to…

Throughout this semester I performed a total of 12 hours of service. In March, I completed 2 hours of service at the Friends for the Future Phone-a-thon. At the Phone-a-thon, I was able to give back to our school by connecting with and thanking people who generously donated to Friends for the Future. Afterwards, I performed the Spiritual Work of Mercy, pray for the living, by praying for the people who donated to our school. I chose this service because I love giving back to my school. I…

Contributing to my community has been something that has interested me, and something I've enjoyed since I was a kid. Most of my community service work has been high school, where I found opportunities to help more easily accessible. And not just community service projects, but clubs that helped me and other participating educated others who were not as knowledgeable on black culture or experience, get a view into our lives, while also creating bonds and relationships. African Diaspora is a…

and whom it serves, as well the author’s reflection on the agency and her volunteer experience. Neilson Place Located in Bemidji, Minnesota, Woodsedge Senior Living offers a community for the older population under the Sanford Health organization. Connected on the premises are a nursing…

lives on Mitchell was very disappointed with everything that was taking place in the community. They felt something had to be done to stop all the violence that was going on. Their main concern was a community was to provide a safe environment for the children’s in the area. The main deviant behavior that took place was drug activities, robbery, graffiti, shootings, gambling and gang meetings. They as a community felt they all needed to meet up and speak about on how they need to make a protest…

life of the elderly population, while learning to understand the important role neighborhoods play in the overall well-being of their everyday lives. According to Gardner, these environments are vital locations for informal public life called third places (e.g., parks, grocery stores and coffee shops). Preparing for, traveling to, and engaging in these public sites, often promotes healthy aging through daily physical and social interactions called community networking. The article describes…

Lois Lowry has created a community that on the surface shows peace and harmony. However, underneath this tranquility it’s clear that this has come at the price of freedom, diversity and conflict; elements that enable communities to progress, transform and evolve. Lowry’s community is a representation of our world where everything that makes it unique has been stripped away in the process of creating what is believed to be a utopia. In the community that Lois Lowry has created, freedom has been…

A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. .In the world there are different types of communities. From the ones in high school to career communities. High school communities for example, would be the popular kids, nerds, emo, etc. In the real world, career wise; the communities would be Doctors, Teacher’s, fast-food, etc. All these fall under the category of discourse community. A discourse community is a group of communicators…