“The Well-Balanced Student: Juggling Homework, Activities and Family” on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 7-8:30 p.m.
Speaker Gina Morris is the Parent Education Program Director for Challenge Success, a program of the Stanford University School of Education. For more on Challenge Success, see www.challengesuccess.org.
In this presentation, Morris says, you will:
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1. Learn how the increasing demands and high expectations placed on students by parents, peers and school can often have unintentional but damaging effects.
2. Learn how students today are coping -- or not -- with the academic pressure they face.
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3. Discover simple ways your family can counter the fast-paced culture without sacrificing achievement or engagement in school.
FREE CHILDCARE AVAILABLE, but spaces are limited. Childcare will be at Marin School, not the community center (in the blue portables at the corner of Curtis St. and Marin). Children must be 4 or older, able to follow usual school rules, and able to use bathrooms on their own. Childcare begins at 6:45. RSVPs required to Toni: tmartinezdeborgefeldt@ausdk12.org by Tuesday MORNING, Feb. 28.
The talk is the first in a four-part series, “Student Success & Student Stress,” sponsored by the AUSD Wellness Committee and the district’s combined PTAs. The talks are for parents and caregivers of all students, K-12.
The rest of the series includes:
- “How Short Sleep Shortchanges Our Kids’ Potential,” a talk by Bryce Mander, PhD, UC Berkeley Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, on Tuesday, March 27, 7-8:30 p.m.
- “The Pleasure Trap: Motivating Kids to Make Good Choices,” a talk by Abby Medcalf, PhD, of the New Bridge Foundation in Berkeley, on Thursday, April 26, 7-8:30 p.m.
- “One Size Does Not Fit All,” a screening of the keynote speech on raising successful and happy children (Challenge Success Conference, Stanford, 2011) by Dr. Ken Ginsburg, a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. After the screening, School Board Member Patricia Low will facilitate a community conversation. Tuesday, May 8, 7-8:30 p.m.
For more information contact Deborah Brill at dbrill@ausdk12.org.
