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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Navy Commander home in Monrovia for the holidays surprises his kids at school |
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Christmas came early this year for three Monrovia kids when their father, a commander in the Navy who’s been stationed in Bahrain, surprised them at school on Thursday.
The children — third-grader Charlotte, fifth-grader Sawyer, and eighth-grader Jackson — thought their father, Jeffrey Mitchell, would be home on Dec. 20. Their mom had them keeping track of the days with a countdown calendar at home, so an early arrival was the last thing on their minds.
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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/14/video-navy-commander-home-in-monrovia-for-the-holidays-surprises-his-kids-at-school/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Laguna Beach school district vows to fight ruling that student’s suspension in watermelon incident be erased |
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Though a Laguna Beach High School student won the right to have a suspension struck from their record after a racially charged incident in December of 2016, the Laguna Beach Unified School District is battling that ruling. The male student (not identified by name) was one of five accused of harassing a fellow classmate from Laguna Beach High School over winter break 2016, jeering the boy's name and throwing watermelon at the house. |
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http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-laguna-lawsuit-appeal-20171214-story.html |
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NEW YORK TIMES
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Can Kindness Be Taught? |
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Thanks to a challenge from the Dalai Lama, a number of preschools are trying to teach something that has not always been considered an academic subject: kindness.
“Can you look inside yourself and tell me what you’re feeling?” Danielle Mahoney-Kertes asked a class of prekindergarten students at P.S. 212 in Queens recently.
The exercise was part of the Kindness Curriculum, developed by the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in which preschoolers are introduced to a potpourri of sensory games, songs and stories that are designed to help them pay closer attention to their emotions.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/well/family/kindness-curriculum-preschool.html |
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KPCC
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After wildfires destroyed their homes, students find healing help at school |
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The Tubbs Fire took the homes of many students at Northwest Prep Charter School, a small secondary school in northwestern Santa Rosa. Given the trauma their community had just experienced, teachers knew they couldn't dive right back into algebra.
On the first day back, all 75 students at Northwest Prep gathered in a community circle and spoke about the fire's impact on their lives.
"I think every one of the students who lost a home spoke during that discussion, which we didn't expect," says Jessica Hadid, the language and communication teacher there.
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https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/14/78924/after-wildfires-destroyed-their-homes-students-fin/ |
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What local development experts want parents to know |
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Not that long ago, science told us that 1,000 or fewer neural connections were made each second in a baby's brain. Now we know babies' brains actually make one million neural connections every second until the age of 3. As our understanding of the brain and child development seems to expand by the minute, there’s a constant flood of new research and information about how to raise children. To help parents sort through it all, KPCC assembled a panel of local child development experts to share information they want parents to know. |
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https://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/14/78868/what-local-development-experts-want-parents-to-kno/ |
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LAGUNA BEACH INDEPENDENT
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Teaching Empathy With Spare Change |
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A spare change campaign to encourage Top of the World Elementary students to contribute to Giving Tuesday raised $2,199, far exceeding its initial $500 goal.
With a $1,000 gift from TOW PTA, $3,199 in total was contributed to With My Own Two Hands Foundation, a Laguna Beach nonprofit focused on the nutrition and education of children in Kenya, says operations director Mary Beth Pugh in a statement.
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https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/teaching-empathy-spare-change/ |
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