Author: Roberta Malavenda
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Identifying Themes – Setting Goals – Moving to Action
What are “do-able” ideas and activities that would support families with young children? Several months ago, CDF partnered with Refugee Family Services (RFS) to ask this question. The partners hosted a focus group with RFS’s Parents as Teachers families. “Families need more time to be with other families who have children, to play and to…
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Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a “Lost Boy” Refugee
A long and dangerous journey from a village in South Sudan brought Majok Marier to Clarkston.
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Clarkston Tell Me a Story! Cultural Language and Literacy Festival this Saturday
Looking for something to do with your pre-school children this Saturday afternoon? Plan now to attend the free, second annual Tell Me a Story! Festival, Saturday, May 17, 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.,
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Transforming Information and Ideas Into Action
At the final session of the Vision & Voice: Family Leadership Institute families used the skills and tools they learned by creating community action plans.
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Tell Me a Story! Festival May 17, 2014
Tell Me a Story! Festival May 17, 2014, Clarkston Community Center, 2 to 5 p.m. Interested in story telling, especially in children’s stories that are passed on from generation to generation?
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Clarkston parents speak out about early care and education
If you had three wishes for education, what would they be? If you could tell the new Mayor of Clarkston what you want for your children, what would you say to him?
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Tell Me a Story! – May 17
The Clarkston Early Learning Network will sponsor the second annual Tell Me a Story! Literacy and Language Festival, Saturday, May 17, 2014, from 2 to 5 p.m., at the Clarkston Community Center.
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Student Puppet Show Draws on ideas of After-School Students
On March 14, the Multi-Cultural After-School program homework table became the stage for an innovative puppet show written and performed by Taylor Randleman, a senior at Decatur High School who will be attending Emory this fall. The after-school students, who painted the backdrop and gave ideas for the story, listened and watched intently as Taylor,…
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The planning continues and the work begins: Clarkston After School Collaborative
The Clarkston Community Trustees met March 6 to discuss the start- up of the Clarkston After-School Collaborative, the Education project selected by Clarkston residents. The Clarkston After- School Collaborative will develop activities and mobilize resources to support existing after school programs serving Clarkston youth.