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Parent Education Training & Support (PETS) Provides education, training and support to parents to help them better understand and access education services for their children at both the local district and state level; [Negotiating the Special Education Maze and Teacher Support Team training, Parents Rights under NCLB]; Enable parents to develop tools and skills needed to engage themselves in policy formation and implementation; Enable parents to work in support of each other to hold the local school board accountable to the formation and adoption of education policies that are family centered; Enable parents to work in support of each other to hold school personnel accountable to implementing practices and policies that support the effective development of children and youth; Youth leadership development; Creating an environment through education, training, and support to enable adults and students to work together to build an effective high quality public education system through an African American lens [defining the elements of a quality public education and healthy school as the foundation for a quality public education, dismantling the achievement gap, school financing and funding].
Environmental Education & The Arts
Hold public officials accountable to building healthy communities; Hold public officials accountable to maintaining healthy water, land, and air in the Holmes County community; Engage children and youth in place based learning about their own community and leaders [Holmes county community becomes the classroom]; Use of the visual arts [ technology, drawing, coloring] as medium to engage youth and accelerate place based learning; Opportunity for civic participation in local government
Reading Program Serve children and youth ranging from pre-school to twelve [pre-school – 12 years old]; Children read to and are read to by older students; Read for comprehension and to develop a love for reading; Expose children and youth to African American authors; Mondays & Wednesdays; Center-based/community based; Interactive table games; Word games [Boggle, Scrabble and Scrabble Junior etc.]; Board games [Chess, checkers, dominoes, etc.]; Skill Development: Build attention, focusing, following directions, taking turns, and comprehension skills and social skill development.
Youth Governance Initiative Development of skills/tools through the publications of Citizens Voices newsletter; Opportunity for participation in civic engagement, policy development, and for student leadership at both school and community; Opportunity to engage students in place-based learning with the members of the larger community; Build the capacity of young people to understand their collective power to impact policy formation; Build the capacity of young people to develop leadership skills and engage in social justice movement work; Development of power through community organizing to build high performing, high quality, healthy & safe schools and opportunity for student leadership
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