Hi,
Phew. School is officially out or almost out. Congratulate your son or daughter, and give yourself a pat on the back for supporting your child through another school year.
The prospect of summer can be exciting – or overwhelming. EdNews Parent is here to share tips to keep your child engaged with learning, safe and healthy over the next couple months. However, the newsletter will become more sporadic, resuming a weekly schedule in early August.
If you have topics you’d like addressed, please let us know. And, have you ever considered hosting an exchange student? Read Confessions of a Partially Proficient Parent to see if it’s an experience for you. Enjoy!
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Healthy Schools
13-year-old promoting fast-food free world
Local 13-year-old home-schooled boy makes an international splash with his efforts to purge the world of fast food. Watch the video. The kid’s pretty amazing!
 Parents: Are you unwitting drug suppliers?
The National Family Partnership wants you to know about its new Lock Your Meds campaign, aimed at curbing a disturbing rise in the number of American teens taking prescription drugs for recreational use and ending up in trouble. Watch the video and get some tips.
This week’s healthy schools highlights
Latest from the chocolate milk wars – Are parents ruining kids’ health? – Cameras at school to count calories – Couch potato lifestyle creating weaker children – Local students join Bolder Boulder – Adams 14 honored for efforts to improve student health. |
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Teaching and Learning
This week’s school budget news
Jeffco’s beloved outdoor lab schools spared for another year – Boulder Valley restores school cuts – Cherry Creek grapples with $15 million shortfall – Committee suggests school closures in Pueblo.
 This week’s teaching & learning tidbits
Uncertainty over NE Denver schools – Colo. lands $6 million for turnaround schools – Rhee preaches to choir in Colo. (watch video) – Colo. to get another shot at Race to the Top funds – Program lures more dads to schools – Denver Public Library plans Gigantic Used Book Sale .
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Safe Schools
This week’s safe schools snippets
Students disciplined for hay prank – 11-year-olds accused of vandalizing school- Colorado school discipline review to be signed into law.
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Sincerely,
Julie Poppen
Editor, EdNews Parent
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This week’s healthy rewards for kids tip
As part of a new campaign to attack childhood obesity and improve children’s health and learning, we offer you tips about healthy snacks and non-food rewards. If you do reward your kids for good behavior or deeds, consider offering them something other than food as a treat – a bike ride, a trip to a park, a hike, or hula hoop contest in the backyard. Better yet, get dad out with a hoop. Who needs popsicles or cookies when you can see something as rare as a man hula hooping?
Year-round school poll results
Of the people who took last week’s poll on year-round school, 100 percent agreed with me and said they were open to the idea of year-round school!!! I might just have to start a campaign. I’d still like to hear from more of you, though. Read this end-of-school blog post and take the poll.
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