Sentences with phrase «few kids in my community»

I currently serve as a mentor for a few kids in my community, but I want to be able to do more.

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Every year, Houston Texans receiver Andre Johnson does his best to make Christmas special for a few underprivileged kids in his community.

That means fewer police resources for us, so our community still has people performing oral sex in front of the kids.

A few weeks ago I spent a day with a wonderful organization called «Kids Grow» - a children's program that encourages interest in gardening and takes place in local community gardens.

Asked to name a few, several people in the Ed School community talked about the academics — notably, the fact that she pushed through not just one but two new doctoral degree programs, and that she moved faculty and students to think about how their work will not only be admired by other academics, but will actually have an impact on real kids, real teachers, and real schools.

Educators from Mount Desert Elementary School in Northeast Harbor, Maine, have shared a few social and emotional learning tools and we've gathered some of our favorite resources to help educators implement positive discipline strategies, build community, and keep kids engaged.

Waiving fees, supplying equipment or instruments, covering the cost of uniforms, providing transportation, partnering with community - based entities to offer scholarships for specialized skill and talent development, and eliminating cut policies are a few of the ways in which schools work diligently to ensure that all kids have access to the benefits of extracurricular participation.

If they can scrounge up the cash, they may be able to send their kids to one of the few Catholic or parochial schools that are still open in their communities.

At The Hechinger Report, we've written about dozens of attempts to get kids like my former students to and through college: microgrants, college counselors, programs to help students graduate in four years, community college guaranteed transfer programs, pushy moms, and investing in individual students like they're a promising stock option, to name a few.

A few years ago, we reported on the PlayPump, a design that incorporates the power of kids at play to pump and store drinking water for communities in Rural Africa.

Over 35 years ago Avanti Auto Driving School became South Florida's «Go To» driving school for all driver license needs, serving Boca Raton and the surrounding communities to mention a few: Winston Park, Coquina, Regency Lakes at Coconut Creek, Coco Lakes, Coral Gate, Wildwood, Banyan Trails, Secret Pond, Tall Trees, Hillsboro Ranches, the kids at North Broward Prep and other areas in Broward.

You've spent the last few years volunteering at your kids» schools, as well as in your local community.

Research shows kids who have been exposed to some form of social and emotional learning have fewer mental health problems, are financially better off and are more likely to vote when they're older — in other words, they're engaged with the community.