Police AssociAtion of novA scotiA 113 http://ednet.ns.ca Branching Out May 2011 Correspondence Studies Various correspondence courses from grades 7 to 12 are availalble for students. For more information, visit our website at http://lrt.ednet.ns.ca > Correspondence Studies or call (902) 424-4054 Roots of Empathy How do you grow a more caring and peaceful society?— you create better citizens, citizens who recognize the needs of others as equal to their own. It’s simple simple enough for the youngest children to learn, basic enough for Roots of Empathy. An evidence-based classroom program, Roots of Empathy has and violence among children while raising social and emotional competence and increasing empathy. At the heart of the program are a neighbourhood infant and parent who visit the classroom nine times during the guides the students in observing the relationship between baby and parent, following the baby’s development, proper care and celebrating milestones. Learning is reinforced through Instructor visits the week before and the week after each Family Visit, with the full program encompassing 27 class visits in total. supports children as they learn to understand the baby’s perspective, label the baby’s feelings and extend that where children are more kind and cooperative, supporting optimal learning behavior and mental health. Operating in every province across the country, Roots of Empathy is designed for children from Kindergarten and French to students in rural, urban and remote communities, as well as Aboriginal communities. Roots of Empathy is an international organization with programs in a number of countries, hundreds of the Roots of Empathy program. Consistent with many of the goals of Safe and Caring Schools Scotia in 2003 with the assistance of Human Resources Development Canada. Since that time the program has Education, United Way, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and a number of local community agencies, Roots of Empathy has reached more than 9,000 Nova Scotian students. If you’re interested in volunteering either in the role of Instructor or together with your baby as a Roots of Empathy Family for this coming school year, please contact a Roots of Empathy representative listed below. Please note that infants must be between two and four months old at the commencement of the program. Atlantic Managers Hazel Clarke and Frances Cole at 709-722-4805 or hclarke@rootsofempathy.org and fcole@rootsofempathy.org Nova Scotia Key Point People Eastern, Jim Mustard jimmustard@hotmail.com HRM, Terry Bartlett-Visser terrybv@eastlink.ca Truro, Margaret Davidson New Glasgow, Sonya Sarty mamasarty@hotmail.com Annapolis Valley, Denise Naugler ocfamilymatters@ns.sympatico.ca Yarmouth, Michelle Doucette Michelle.Doucette@nscc.ca For more information, please visit our website: www.rootsofempathy.org Grade 1 students from Prospect Elementary in Halifax with the help of Tiny Teacher Baby Subira
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