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Engaging Children and Families in Building a Stronger America
Posted by on June 18, 2012 at 12:53 PM EDTAs a teacher trying to establish our future with the ability to embrace children’s love of learning and spark an interest in school, Roxanne Hiller has prided herself on individualizing for each student and finding a way to reach out to all children and their different development levels. Her hard work enabled her to receive the Educator of the Year Award through the California Head Start Association and her program to receive higher scores in all dimensions nationwide.
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Building Better Futures for Children and Families
Posted by on June 18, 2012 at 12:46 PM EDTRory Sipp has stepped through many roles in the Head Start program and has made it his mission to serve the underprivileged children of the Las Vegas area.
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Supporting Children Through an Educational Journey
Posted by on June 18, 2012 at 12:36 PM EDTAngelica Vilaverde knew from a young age she had the makings to be a teacher, but it wasn't until 2009 when she found out how much of an impact she would have on the lives of students. Working with low-income, at-risk families brought some challenges Angelica's way but what drew her in as an Early Head Start teacher was listening to their stories and using parents as a key instrument in their child’s successful educational journey.
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Empowering Families Through Head Start
Posted by on June 18, 2012 at 12:30 PM EDTAfter her daughter was born with Down Syndrome, Ginger West began looking for advice for the problems that were sure to arise. Luckily advice found her in the form of The Learning Center for Families (TLC) Early Head Start (EHS) programs. Since then Ginger has made it a mission to help promote these programs to her community and state.
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Creating an Environment of Change for Tribal Head Start
Posted by on June 18, 2012 at 12:13 PM EDTRenetta Goeson has made it her mission to improve the schooling of children in her tribe, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (SWO) of the Lake Traverse Reservation. Her goal is to provide an environment in which children are respected as sacred and capable and of having enormous potential.
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Progress Toward a Better Life
Posted by on June 18, 2012 at 12:09 PM EDTThe Campagna Center, a non-profit early childhood education and development program in Alexandria, measures its success by the progress children make toward their goals each year, by whether families believe the center's work is helping everyone progress toward a better life.
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Collective Impact for Positive Change
Posted by on June 18, 2012 at 11:56 AM EDTThe Baraga-Houghton-Keweenaw Child Development Board provides high-quality early childhood services to children and families including health and wellness services, such as pregnancy education, breast feeding support, home visiting, health and developmental screenings, and medical and dental care.
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From the Archives: Presidents as Fathers
Posted by on June 15, 2012 at 11:30 AM EDTIn celebration of fathers everywhere, here’s an album of Presidents with the people who know them simply as “Dad” and “Granddad.”
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What It Really Means to Be a Father
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 12:41 PM EDTAfter pulling his child out of school because of bullying, Bob Johnson had had enough. He became an advocate for The Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network and since then his work has led to the Safe Schools Improvement Act and Student Non-discrimination Act legislation currently before lawmakers.
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Out of Every Experience, You Can Gain a Lesson
Posted by on June 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM EDTOver the last 30 years, Jerry Tello has dedicated his efforts to preventing and healing the pain of relationship/community violence, teen pregnancy, fatherless-ness and internalized oppression. In 1988, together with a group of other dedicated men, Jerry Tello developed the National Compadres Network, an organization dedicated to building and strengthening the positive involvement of Latino men in the lives of their children and families.
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