Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first speaker of the Lunch and Learn series. Hanna Attafi, a certified yoga teacher, mindfulness facilitator, and former CCSD teacher provided us with ways to incorporate mindfulness into our daily lives. As the busy holiday season approaches and then onto the second semester of the school year,…
Disadvantaged children fall even further behind in academics during what has been termed the ‘summer slide’. According to the National Summer Learning Association: Most students lost 2 months of math skills with low-income students losing another couple 9 in 10 teachers spend at least 3 weeks re-teaching material at the start of a new school…
New Activities to Introduce in Afterschool Programs If you feel like your afterschool program is in need of a change or a new activity, to spice things up, why not try one of these activities others have introduced with success: Yoga Jessica Stein, owner and director of Kauai Power Yoga believes yoga helps builds student’s…