Sentences with phrase «children at community schools»

Educate younger children at community schools near home, and have older children attend non-reservation schools for higher grade work

Not exact matches

More than 350 low - income children in the community receive free lunches at the park during the summer to ensure they have healthy meals while school is out of session.

When Lonny is not working to make a positive impact in his community, he hangs out at home with his wife, dogs, and 3 children including his daughter who is a freshman in the drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Play is disappearing at home, at school and in communities, particularly for the 14 million children living in poverty.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business communitycommunity

Do you have any advice or ideas for those of us at home with small children, or working the daily grind 9 - 5 jobs, or in school full - time to honor our commitments to family, work and school while simultaneously working to benefit our communities?

There are a lot of children coming out of school at the time, so we want to bless the community in that way.»

If you think volunteering at a program that improves neglected schools with paint, construction, etc. in our community, or donating to a program that purchases christmas gifts for children of convicts (a program our church participates in every year) and I could list more... then I have no words for you.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Play is disappearing at home, at school and in communities, particularly for the 14 million children living in poverty.

Children ages 10 to 14 participate in PPI's «twinning» program, in which Jews and Arabs at first practice regularly in their home communities, then combine into mixed teams under two coaches (one Arab and one Jewish) and meet weekly throughout the school year.

His PR manager, Max Clifford, told us «Gareth spends his days off helping the local community and is currently teaching football skills to children at a local school.

If that isn't enough, Adu's accelerated high school program set up by IMG, the Edison Academic Center — through which he will earn his diploma next month — has included community service at a child - care center, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the bathroom.

Paul will discuss Helping Children Succeed in a speech in the community room at Eagle Hill School.

Paul will discuss grit, character, and How Children Succeed with David Levin, co-founder of KIPP, and Dominic Randolph, head of the Riverdale Country School, at the Jewish Community Center in New York City as part of the JCC's Learning Matters conversation series hosted by John Merrow.

Through interactive presentations at schools, libraries, work places, community centers, and other venues, we highlight the parents» role in developing and supporting healthy, engaged children.

Paul will discuss Helping Children Succeed in a keynote speech at the first Trauma in Our Community conference, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's School of Continuing Education and held at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed in a community conversation at Ottawa Hills High School, 2055 Rosewood Ave SE, presented by First Steps, the Grand Rapids Public Schools, and Believe 2 Become.

Delecia Utley, a senior at Hillside High School in Durham, recently won a Community Builder Award from Durham's Partnership for Children.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

Quite frankly, school - aged children will typically spend most of their non-sleeping time at school, so it is critical to find a school community that can offer exceptional educational value and also mirrors the same values and beliefs you have within your home.

Let your child know that bullying is unacceptable and that there will be serious consequences at home, school, and in the community if it continues.

You are determined to find a school and community that will welcome you openly and meet the holistic needs of your child and at the same time align with your family's beliefs and values.

With strict dietary guidelines that dictate what's on the lunch menu at Glen Ellyn's Community Consolidated School District 89, getting parents to buy lunch for their child when the selection is whole - grain pasta or broccoli with fat - free ranch dressing is proving to be a challenge.

A common scenario in the small, farming community where my family lives is for a mother to stay at home with her children when they are young and then get a job at the school when her youngest child enters kindergarten.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

Community eligibility is a powerful tool to ensure that low - income children have access to breakfast and lunch at no charge through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.

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The «pink slime» controversy has touched a nerve in the school food community and underscored how little parents know about what their children eat at school, said Kate Adamick, a noted school food consultant and author.

Families best served at SWS are those whose values are compatible with the culture of the school as an educational community, who share SWS's educational goals, and who seek the unique character of Waldorf Education for their children.

As parents and community members, we applauded Mr. Mills» success in bringing healthy, fresh, locally - produced food to D.C. school children as well as his attempts at oversight of existing and new vendors.

He says he's succeeded in showing his viewers the sorry state of school food and how worried children are about obesity - related diseases (at least in hard - hit communities like West Adams).

Some your child can tackle at home, others are for school, your neighborhood, or the community.

Parents of latch - key children in Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204 may soon have an alternative to leaving their children at home before and after sSchool District 204 may soon have an alternative to leaving their children at home before and after schoolschool.

And how can we recognize the signs of distress or anxiety in their behavior that tell us that they need our help?In The Secure Child, Dr. Stanley Greenspan offers a set of guiding principles that will help parents of children at each age — from preschoolers to teenagers — both reassure and guide them so that they feel secure in their homes, their schools, and in their community at large.

includes a mind blowing number of initiatives that address intersections with schools, child care, cities, towns and counties, Indian Country, and faith communities, as well as efforts to connect kids with salad bars at school, outdoor initiatives, parks, museum and gardens, reading, and chefs.

She has worked part time for 10 years teaching children at the Highland Park Community Nursery School and Day Care Center.

It doesn't matter if it's a playground at school, in the community or rigged in your own backyard, any place where you're going to let your child play is a place that needs to be inspected regularly for safety.

When tragedy strikes a school community — whether it's a death at your child's school or a loss of life so horrific that it affects us all, like the shootings at Newtown, Connecticut — the prospect of sending kids back to school can be daunting.

«Child Find» can be contacted through the local school system in all communities or through your State's early intervention coordinators, who can be located on the Web at http://www.nectac.org/contact/ptccoord.asp.

A school with outstanding food allergy awareness is willing to 1) provide accommodations in writing for your child for their specific allergies, 2) admit what they don't know and learn, 3) follow a written health care plan (provided by your doctor) that outlines the steps to take if anaphylaxis were to occur, 4) train all necessary staff on the use of epinephrine, 5) have a school nurse in the building at all times, 6) include your child in every activity possible including field trips, 7) educate the community about food allergies, 8) refuse to allow any bullying behavior regarding food allergies, 9) find ways to celebrate without food and 10) stand up to parents (and educate them) who say that food allergies are «hogwash»!

Belonging to a community bound by common aims, i.e. providing support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, upholding the freedom for parents to choose to take direct responsibility for the education of their children, and promoting knowledge, understanding and acceptance of education otherwise than at school.

A school with outstanding food allergy awareness is willing to 1) provide accommodations in writing for your child for their specific allergies, 2) admit what they don't know and learn, 3) provide a written health care plan that outlines the steps to take if anaphylaxis were to occur, 4) train all necessary staff on the use of epinephrine, 5) have a school nurse in the building at all times, 6) include your child in every activity possible including field trips, 7) educate the community about food allergies, 8) refuse to allow any bullying behavior regarding food allergies, 9) find ways to celebrate without food and 10) stand up to parents (and educate them) who say that food allergies are «hogwash»!

Those of us who are blessed to have our children enrolled at Berkeley Rose Waldorf School already know what a special community has been created here.

You might live in a health - conscious, progressive city and / or your children might attend a school (public or private) in which the parent community is well educated about nutrition — or at least open to nutrition education.

Over the past year, I have met with community leaders and stakeholders from across the country — parents and teachers, school board members and principals, suppliers and food service workers — about the importance of making sure every child in America has access to nutritious meals at school.

I think many times this is neglected and not mentioned in Waldorf Educational literature, because the assumption is the child is at the school in community.

The news that New York City now qualifies for universal free lunch through the Federal Community Eligibility Provision is music to the ears for many families that do not qualify for reduced or free lunch yet still have difficulty providing their child with a nutritious lunch at school,» said Council Member Vincent J. Gentile.

Second, as part of the course students were required to spend time working with local schools and child care centers or at our local community pantry.

Hospital education is defined as «education provided at a community special school or foundation special school established in a hospital, or under any arrangements made by the local authority under section 19 of the 1996 Act [ie the Education Act 1996](exceptional provision of education), where the child is being provided with such education by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioner».