Archive for the ‘National’ Category
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Senate Passes Child Nutrition Reauthorization
On Thursday, August 5, the Senate passed, S. 3307, the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 that reauthorizes federal child nutrition programs (such as the School Breakfast, School Lunch, and Summer Food programs, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) through FY ...
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
This is good stuff from this summer's Outdoor Nation Youth Summit in Central Park, NYC:
http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/AGO-NYC-20100620.cfm
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
The Leave No Child INSIDE Central Ohio Collaborative invites you to a meeting!
Please come and hear updates from all the teams that formed last fall! They have been working very hard and are eager to share their progress.
When: Tuesday Jan. 19 NOON - 1 p.m.
Where: Westerville Public Library
Cost: Free
Important: ...
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Reprinted from the Peaceful Playgrounds newsletter, courtesy of member Tina Gratitude at Indianola Children's Center:
Study: "Play" Develops Social Responsibility
Locally and across the nation, time for play has been increasingly squeezed out of preschool and kindergarten. The reason given is that schools, bent on raising student achievement, especially among poor ...
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
We were lucky enough to have Betsy Townsend from The Leave No Child Inside Greater Cincinnati collaborative who has been working with the Children and Nature Network and also attended their National Gathering in Colorado.
Here is her report:
NATIONAL GATHERING HIGHLIGHTS
The theme this year was “Making Connections”. It was about ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Student gardeners learn land’s lessons
Edible gardens take root at more area schools
By Sara Cunningham • scunningham@courier-journal.com • October 3, 2009
Last month, fifth-graders at St. Francis School in Goshen harvested watermelons they had planted in the spring, using their math skills to figure out how far apart to space the ...
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
The Children and Nature network has launched a Ning site where anyone can register and network with other interested people from around the country.
Folks are sharing photos, videos, blog posts, etc.
It's exciting stuff! Join using your email address and be part of the discussion!
http://childrenandnature.ning.com/
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Last month, Jenny Morgan, Alice Hohl and Mark Young (Ohio Parks and Recreation Assoc.) met with Sen. Sherrod Brown asking him to support and possibly co-sponsor the No Child Left Inside legislation, which will fund Environmental Education through a federal grant program. (It will eventually become part of federal schools ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Mark Young, Jenny Morgan and Alice Hohl attended a meeting with Ed Roberts, arranged my Mark Young, to discuss the No Child Left Inside legislation.
The meeting, Wednesday, was extremely positive! Mr. Roberts was very receptive to our message, and even shared a couple stories about children being addicted to video ...
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