Word: arens
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...lively. "This means that instead of telling a five-year-old about apples or reading about them in a book, you go pick apples, you peel apples and make apple sauce and apple pies," says Wendy Derrow, a family therapist in Orlando, Fla. "It's that pure, healthy, aren't-we-lucky-to-be-together environment that grows great learners...
...GRADES AREN'T EVERYTHING...
...same rule applies to parental involvement with the school: be involved, but make sure it's constructive. Parents of successful students are advocates for their child but are supportive, rather than combative, toward the school. "These aren't parents who blame you and want to know why the system didn't come through for their child," says Shirley Harden, principal of Winand Elementary, Donny Williams' alma mater. "They want to know how they can work with you and make things best for their kids...
...Dunster Cafe is great because there are few, if any, places for jazz musicians who aren't in the Harvard Jazz Band to get a chance to play," says Cousin, who plays bass in the 'house band'. "The jam gives people an outlet to practice their playing and hopefully improve, or at least take a nice break from studying...
...This is assaulting the forest and extracting part of its biomass," he said. "There aren't many ecosystems in the world that are going to be helped in any way by that...