Sentences with phrase «school kids experienced»

«More than 83,000 New York City school kids experienced homelessness at some point in the past year and an average of 23,000 children sleep in the City's homeless shelters each night,» said Borough President KATZ.

Last year, more than 105,000 New York City public school kids experienced homelessness at some point during the year, according to the Coalition for the Homeless.

Not exact matches

Not only will bringing your friend to your exercise class or shopping for your kid's school uniform brighten up the experience, but it'll help you pack more friend - time into your crammed schedule.

Most of the kids we help at Futurpreneur don't have any business experience: They are fresh out of school, and this is their first real job experience.

As she and her husband struggle to find the best school for their daughter, «I worry about the experiences she'll have early in her life on the other side of town where the parks are picturesque and pristine and none of the other kids have beads and braids like her, and how that might impact her culturally.»

Much of what every kid would ideally learn in school is, in part, a working familiarity with the same attitudes, approaches and outlooks that we try to instill in our aspiring 1871 entrepreneurs as a lasting part of their overall experience with us.

When we were raising our young kids at home, we would try to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, just for the experience of it all — gingerbread house kits at Christmas, school projects on the kitchen table, taco night with all the fixings prepped in bowls.

When we have dear friends with whom we've experienced notable life transitions — high school, driving, dating, college, marriage, kids — it's only natural to assume that they will be along for the ride when our faith changes.

Regardless of our homes — our experiences in high school or college or as a kid — all of us have pasts filled with mistakes and hurt, seasons of pain, friendships lost, fights unresolved, maybe even regret.

In my experience Sunday School at the Catholic Church doesn't encourage kids to question the Church and their teachings.

«Giving these kids an awesome Sunday School experience is one of the most important things I can do for them.»

I know from experience that once school is back in session and the kids» start up again that's about how long I have to get dinner on the table on a school night.

with my limited kale experience, i've found the russian kale, lacy and pink eddged to be much more tender than the dino kale etc. in my school garden, the kids pick it and eat it straight from the garden, sweeter too.

At Splash Swim School you'll experience the joy of seeing your kids have fun as their confidence grows and they learn new swim skills.

In Santa Cruz, there are three self - contained camp and conference facilities: Summers at Ponderosa Lodge are geared for junior high and senior high students; Redwood Camp's full summer schedule delights elementary and primary school - aged kids; our Conference Center summers provide a Christian resort camping experience designed for every member of the family.

Simple teasing, perhaps, impacts esteem, but what many kids experience in school goes well beyond that.

Back when Boston was experiencing its short yet ridiculously intense winter, I was reminded that schools (including Laurel's) not only provide education, they provide a reliable food source for many kids.

And yet most of our schools, especially schools educating poor kids, operate in ways that steer children away from those experiences.

We can talk about the wide diversity of schools and that there are good «fits» for different kids in terms of campus size, academic structure and content, geography, and experiences offered.

She also helps the Hickory community by collecting clothes, school supplies, researching part - time jobs for teens and soliciting donations from businesses for program support and career experiences for Club kids.

About a quarter of kids are bullied or harassed at school — an experience that can undermine the rest of their lives.

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Whether it's over the first day of school, staying overnight at a grandparent's house, or getting a shot, even the most unflappable kids are going to experience fears.

For some kids, summer school can be a positive learning experience.

According to Gottman's research, when parents give kids the skills they need to deal with emotions, they'll have more self - confidence, do better in school, and experience healthier relationships.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

I haven't experienced any downfalls of this app so I'm hoping it's going to be my final solution for downsizing all the art and school work my kids bring home.

«You may have kids who, depending on how they exited the previous school year, are experiencing some anxiety about their return,» he said.

In Northern Michigan Kids news, schools across northwest Michigan have been serving up local food experiences in cafeterias, classrooms, and school gardens, and we'll be sharing some of those stories each month.

Using the experience we have from gardening as well as the gardening club I used to run at a school I taught I'm putting together resources for parents and teachers on Gardening with Kids.

Children who participate in OSV's «A Child's Work and Play» Discovery Adventures during April school vacation (April 15 - 19) get to wear period clothing and experience first - hand what it was like to be a kid in the early 19th - century.

Keep involved and be supportive with your kids school projects, but they will learn the consequences by their experience of not handing things in on time.

Overachieving kids, he says, are distorting their high school experience to create a perfect but phony profile they deem necessary to get into the best schools, while those who can't keep pace, often for family reasons, feel there is no point in trying.

«During summer break, kids are getting all sorts of experiences they wouldn't get in school,» Lloyd says.

Feingold has been helping parents since 1976 and have decades of experiences of children being sick for no reason and smart kids who are failing in school, who get better when they go off the really bad foods.

Kids gain knowledge of the outdoors and increase awareness, confidence and self - reliance, while having fun, positive experiences,» says Dave Scott, founder of the Earth Native Wilderness School, in Bastrop, Texas.

As you may know from reading here about my experiences as a volunteer with that organization, Recipe for Success offers school kids a wonderful «seed to plate» curriculum that changes the way they understand, appreciate and eat their food.

Jesse «The Law» Torres Boxing Club Program Grant — $ 5,000 After - school program welcomes kids 8 and up while providing a safe environment and positive experience.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar... [Continue reading]

Before kids have to get back in bed earlier for school, let them stay up late and experience the great outdoors — after dark.

For kids with special needs, school can be both a wonderful and difficult experience.

Some parents send kids to summer camp because they they need child care when school is out, but many send their kids primarily for the summer camp experience.

Reading about other children who might have fears and anxiety about starting school may be comforting to kids who are experiencing the same feelings.

Setting up a positive experience with science now will help your kids embrace and love school.

Since my kids are not yet in middle school, I have yet to fully experience the impact of «competitive» food in the public school setting — i.e., beverage vending machines stocked exclusively with Coca - Cola products (thanks to a multimillion dollar deal Coke struck with our district a few years back — more on that to come), snack vending machines, branded products like Papa John's pizza in the lunch room, and more.

Giving the best teacher gift isn't impossible if you know your child's teacher but if you're feeling stuck, here's a list of favorite gifts from the teachers at my kids» elementary school, my former colleagues, and from my experience in the classroom.

In my experience, nutrition workers, for the most part, are excited to be given the freedom to be creative and schools and kids reap the rewards; but too often, they're given short shrift and assumed to be «cut and dump» machines incapable or unwilling to bust their humps on homemade food.

So she decided to eat school lunch every day, just like the kids do, and share the meals and her experiences at Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch Prschool lunch every day, just like the kids do, and share the meals and her experiences at Fed Up With Lunch: The School Lunch PrSchool Lunch Project.

But at the same time, what I say at the end of the book is the programs I talk about are really small and represent just a small minority of the kinds of experiences kids — and especially low - income kids — are having in American schools today.

Sarah's book about the experience, Fed Up With Lunch, contains a «Guide to Quiet Revolution,» which parents, teachers, kids and teenagers, as well as community members can use as a road map to make health and wellness a priority in neighborhood schools.