Word: transformational
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...emphasis on the importance of quality teachers in the American countryside is not meant to be self-aggrandizing. It is meant to underscore the unique ability of motivated and intelligent classroom leaders to single-handedly transform students living among nothing but poverty...
...imposed at public schools in 1903 to end previous practices of Catholic theology being taught under the guise of non-denominational education; critics claim Sarkozy's embrace of the Môquet letter restores that practice on an ideological level. "Can we take the risk that the event will transform the high school into a political arena?" asked SNES in a statement explaining why it was urging its members not to respect the reading of the letter...
...steps into the sea, bent with grief that is all the more wrenching because she stands in an ever-shifting body of water rather than on solid ground. But the gods feel pity. They return the body of her dead husband to his home shore, and then, miraculously, transform the lovers into sea birds. This transformation is visually realized through a series of highly stylized movements that I don’t think would work on dry land. In the water, however, it’s a wondrous scene...
...Prime Minister argued that "there is today talk the world over of a nuclear renaissance and we cannot afford to miss the bus." This week, though, there's a clear sense that the bus has come and gone, and with it, perhaps any confidence in Singh's ability to transform India...
...Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld, whose company makes such hardly wholesome fare as bacon, macaroni and cheese, and frozen pizza, the opportunity to buy Danone's cookie business was too tempting to resist. "It will increase our presence in snacks--our fastest-growing global segment--and transform our international business," she says...