Sentences with phrase «with inner city kids»

Most importantly he just got back from North Carolina where he was trained as a Young Life educator and is now setting up Young Life chapters in the inner - city schools all over Memphis to do devotionals and mentorships with inner city kids.

Not exact matches

Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

For them its like the inner city kid who hates Whites but has very limited contact with any Whites.

We take 25 kids a year and we had bought two hotels in Houston and partnered with the University of Houston and hotel managers and we take inner city kids there and mentor them for a year through hospitality.

Charitable Work: Jason is most proud of his work with charity youth programs including the RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), the Challenger Baseball Program and others serving as both an instructor and motivational speaker for kids.

To be an African - American kid and grow up in the inner - city with a single parent mother and not being financially stable and to be where I am today, I think I've defeated the odds.

Twenty years later, researchers found no difference in job advancement or income level between the two groups (with the exception of inner city kids).

Canada escaped the inner city for Bowdoin and Harvard and then returned to New York to try to create better options for kids like the ones he grew up with.

I sat with this for a few minutes thinking about the reasons inner - city kids I've known might not eat breakfast at school, or at least why they might continue to feel that they need to eat those subway muffins and bagels.

Cameron wants inner city kids to mix with those from the shires to repair our «broken society» and all that malarkey.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

They succeeded, with the help of a team of local inner - city kids, in bringing eagles back to the city after a 50 - year absence.

In inner city schools, yoga for kids is also used to help young adults deal with stress.

His vision of inner - city Los Angeles is pretty beat, with street kids running drugs and packing heat, white cops busting their chops for no good reason, and smug crack dealers pontificating about how they're the real businessmen of the «hood.

(In Hungarian with subtitles) Thunder Soul (PG for smoking and mild epithets) Musical documentary chronicling the 35th reunion of members of Houston's history - making, Kashmere High School Band with 92 year - old Conrad «Prof» Johnson, the legendary coach who led the ensemble of African - American, inner - city kids to a number of championship titles in nationwide competitions during the Seventies.

Steve James's chronicle of two inner - city Chicago kids obsessed with basketball balances a microscopic look at their lives with a macro-examination of the social forces around them.

The film opens in a crime - ridden hood in South London with a group of inner city kids mugging a young nurse named Sam (Jodie Whittaker) on her way home from work.

Next year, they'll continue the No Barriers Project, which launched last spring and joins students from Effingham and Teutopolis with kids from two inner - city schools in Chicago and East St. Louis.

I read an article years ago, in which an inner - city teacher taught kids spelling by having them stand up and form each letter with their bodies.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

Inner - city Chicago schools were notoriously bad during the 1960s and»70s; Duncan's brother, Owen, says that, at the time, the afterschool center didn't help kids with homework because their teachers didn't give them any.

«Proficiency for us, will be getting at least three entire districts — 50 to 200 schools each — into the high or very - high category of proficiency with inner - city kids.

He simply lacked the requisite education, hadn't taken the plenitude of pedagogic courses, expensive college credits in such vital subjects as: Methods of Teaching Science for Dummies; Educational Technology for Idiots; Band Aids & First Aid; Tae Kwan Do for the Inner City; Teaching & Testing the Test Takers; Touchy - Feely 101, 201 & 301; Understanding Special Kids, Gifted Kids, Not - so Gifted Kids, Kids with Attitude, and Kids with ADD; Curriculum Simulacrum; EL / Cross-Cultural AC / DC Current; Self - Esteem for the Worthless; and, last but not least: Foundations of Education: Sarcasm & Humiliation for Fun & Profit.

CHAT is a non-profit group that works with kids in the Church Hill neighborhood of inner - city Richmond, Virginia.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the GOP presidential primaries, where, with the exception of one particularly stupid Gingrichian comment about putting inner city kids to work as janitors, cities and urban issues have scarcely even been mentioned.

Maggie O. the campus principal is diverse open to suggestions and determined to get these inner city kids off to great high schools with college being the main focus.