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We have taken the walk down to our local library hundreds of times.
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Cleveland Jewish News
June 6, 2024
By STEVE MARK
Of the multitude of established dynamics that help students develop early communication skills, two tend to stand out – repetition and socialization. The daily routines stressed in schools play a big part in learning, and there is stimuli in that dynamic that simply can’t be replicated elsewhere.
For more on how schools assist in the development of young children’s skills, Fatemeh Toossi, lead preschool teacher at Hanna Perkins School in Shaker Heights, shared ...
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Dear Friends of Hanna Perkins,
You may know that I have a daughter—an only child who never had childcare outside of our immediate family, who had medical trauma from infancy onward and whose pre-K was cut short by the pandemic. She didn’t have a full year of “normal” school until second grade, and now in third grade, she recently experienced the tragic loss of her classroom teacher.
She’s had physical pain, isolation, loneliness and grief…among other things. She missed much of the ...
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I’m pushing Lightning Bug down the sidewalk in her rickety little stroller. Approaching us on the same sidewalk is a young woman pushing a baby in a larger nicer stroller.
Bug says, “There not going to be space.”
I say, “It’s a big enough sidewalk. And we’ll just move over to this side and she’ll move over to that side and we’ll have ...
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The heading on the sheet of stickers says “100 Ways to Say ‘Good Job!’”, and then all 100 – from “Awesome” to “Zero Mistakes” – appear with accompanying smiley faces and abundant exclamation points. These are sold to teachers as self-esteem promoters. Everyone, especially the children, knows them to be artificial at best. But at least they are evidence of the general awareness that self-esteem is important.
But self-esteem is not so easily created, and certainly not when imposed ...
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