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Building Resilience: Helping Children Cope With Stress

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

Studies show that adverse childhood experiences can wreak havoc on a child's developing brain and body and have strong correlations to harmful effects throughout a lifetime. Helping children build resilience is one effective antidote for toxic stress and trauma.

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Finding the Balance

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

Finding the right balance between academic challenge and social-emotional comfort should be the goal.

Social Studies for the 21st Century: How participatory action empower students

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

International Baccalaureate redefines the traditional way of approaching social studies with the “Individuals & Societies” approach that seeks to explain to students why people think and act the way they do, and how this has resulted in various societies being organized the way that they are. Students learn about big ideas that shape behavior and societies, and dive deeply into the world around them with participatory action.

A Commitment to Service that Lasts Beyond the Holidays

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

How do we create a lifelong commitment to service in our students? We must think beyond day-to-day lessons and one-off trips to create a deep intellectual understanding about our role in the world and give students opportunities to think about how each of our actions impact ourselves, each other and our world.

Remember Where You Came From

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

As students grow up, the amount of unproductive distractions increases. In order to combat the negative self-destructive habits that come with these diversions, they should "remember where they came from." If people embrace happiness in productive ways, then the whole world will benefit.

Look for These 5 Things When Planning to Educate Children

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

Learning something where there is a deep, nuanced understanding and the follow-up ability to explain it to someone else requires more than curiosity. Moving beyond why requires practice, discipline, grit, zest, and a teacher to lead the way.

Write it Down

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

It’s estimated that 1 in 7 children today are living with at least one treatable mental health disorder. This could be anxiety, ADHD, depression. Many of these kids are not being diagnosed, let alone treated. Kids In Crisis works to help children like this, all day every day. One very simple yet incredibly effective method we’ve always relied on is journaling. Whether this is with our residents in our SafeHaven for Kids shelter, or through our TeenTalk and KidTalk programs in schools and in the community.

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

CCI helps smooth the path for Greenwich newcomers is by offering instruction in English and citizenship.

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Courtnay’s Kitchen in Greenwich: Immune-Friendly, Clean Eating

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

Courtnay Arpano is a professional chef, offering clean, fresh, local, organic clean food and southern chicken pies, delivered to your home. "Clean Weeks" gives you family-friendly meals that can include immune-supporting ingredients in soups, layered salads in a jar (“a jar for the car”), berries, grains, nuts, seeds, medicinal teas, snacks and dark chocolate, to super-charge your system and ward off sickness, delivered fresh to your doorstep, in an insulated bag.

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Real Estate – Surviving and Some Thriving in the Coronavirus Era

Greenwich Sentinel·
March 21, 2020·

Sales and rentals are up in Greenwich, CT as more people from New York City look to Greenwich as a place to put more social distance between their families and their families. Four acres of land provides a lot more social distance than 12 inches of apartment wall.

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