It's the new buzz term for kids’ brain hibernation over the summer vacation. It happens a little bit to all students, but most significantly to those who have few opportunities to exercise their minds.
Do you remember how hard it was to go back to school and make new friends? Can you imagine having to start back to school several times in a year? That's what many kids in the foster system have to do each year.
In previous blogs I wrote about our community’s role in education for our youth, opportunities to be involved with young people in a positive way, and listening to the opinions of young people. During the summer months as kids are interacting with lots of different adults, let’s consider the power of adult influences on a young person’s life.
Every year kids head off for summer break, and every year parents worry about how to keep the kids engaged, out of their hair and out of trouble.
Unfortunately many teachers know that they have a battle to wage when the kids emerge from summer break, it is called summer learning loss or summer brain drain - and it's the reality that key skills learned just months earlier have slipped away during break.
A few months ago I wrote "Lessons From Local Youth" - letting you know about a project we were working on called Community Conversations which we held with 5 different groups in Buncombe County. In it I shared what young people said about opportunities, education, and the community they live in.
Chris Young, our 2011 Campaign Chair, noted that a challenge during the 2011-12 campaign that a majority of our focus was on companies and individuals with which we have a long history and not as much on cultivation of new business relationships.
Chris felt that it was time to create a new position on our campaign cabinet, one devoted solely to cultivation of new relationships.
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Did you know that the proceeds from your purchase benefit the work of Hands On Asheville-Buncombe? Thanks in advance for helping us keep up the good work!
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Did you know that the proceeds from your purchase benefit the work of Hands On Asheville-Buncombe? Thanks in advance for helping us keep up the good work!
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