The home of the Sacred Circles Center in Whittier is inside a small white structure with blue trim. The building doesn’t have a sign in front, but co-founder Jerry Tello says “the people that need to be here, will be here.”The center was created to be a place for people to come together and heal through presentations by Indigenous elders, culturally based healing and meditation circles, life coaching and family counseling. The intimate space hasn’t been used since the onset of the pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped Tello and co-founder Susanna Armijo from continuing their mission of helping their community…
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By Neil Hodge2022-09-26T15:55:00 The U.K.’s data privacy regulator warned social media platform TikTok it could be fined 27 million pounds (U.S. $29 million) for failing to protect children’s data. An investigation opened by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in 2019 found the company might have breached the U.K.’s version of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regarding privacy protections for children using TikTok between May 2018 and July 2020, the regulator announced Monday. The ICO issued TikTok’s U.K. subsidiary and parent company with a “notice of intent,” a provisional warning informing them it believes the platform might have processed…
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By Patricia J. Murphy | Continuing our series on Read Alouds That Rock, we shine a light on the silliest of storytimes. Click here to see our previous stories.At this very moment, countless teachers and librarians are having silly storytimes—and for good reason! With many readily available funny-to-hilarious books to choose from, these educators have their hands full when curating, reading, and using these books to create moments filled to the gills with giggles. PW spoke with five such educators how and why they do it.As a somewhat nervous child growing up, children’s librarian Brian Wilson (not the Beach Boys…
“Act 1, Act Tú” bilingual theatre is one of the Arts and Culture programs recently launched in the summer of 2022 NEW LONDON, Conn. — The Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut’s mission is to advance Hispanic contributions to the Southeastern Connecticut community and beyond. “We have very structured and specific, clearly identified well, designed intentional programs,” explained Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco with Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut. This includes the organization’s many Art and Culture programs created to embrace and share their diverse Hispanic heritage with the community. RELATED: Hispanic Health Council educates and addresses growing problems in community “We’re very…
At Holden Elementary in Kent, there is one school teacher who continues to use his philanthropy work to tell his story and make a difference in the lives of others. Garrison Wollam is a third-grade teacher who is about to finish up his third year of maintenance treatment to treat his diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL. While fighting his battle against cancer, Wollam continues to care for his family and be a “big kid” in the classroom. Back in 2019 at the age of 37, Wollam was diagnosed with ALL, which is a common form of childhood cancer.…
Danielle CosinoRoblox can be played on many platforms including PCs (shown), Android and iPhones.You may have heard a bunch of young kids today talk about this game called Roblox. Many people mistake Roblox for being a stand-alone video game like Fortnite, but it is actually a free online gaming platform where people can play a variety of games created by various developers. These games are referred to as “experiences.” Over the years, the popular gaming platform has accumulated an age demographic of 13-year-olds and younger; however, in the past 2 to 3 years, Roblox has grown to reach an audience…
Join us for a four week series of Bilingual Birdies programs from September 21-October 12. These programs will be in English and French. Bilingual Birdies is an early childhood bilingual education program for children birth through age six and the adults who love them! The programs combine music, movement, and puppetry in a play-based curriculum to engage children as they increase their vocabulary and celebrate diversity in every class! Source link
Hungarian lesbian activists are set to hold their second DykeMarch on October 1, the final day of the EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community (EL*C) Conference in Budapest. This year’s conference, “Lesbian Resistance,” will open two weeks after Serbia initially banned EuroPride 2022, the latest in a two-year spate of attacks on Pride marches and other queer events in Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. The EL*C conference and DykeMarch come amid ongoing government harassment of lesbian activism in Hungary. In February, an appeals court ruled against Labrisz Lesbian Association, finding that an article in a pro-government newspaper likening lesbian activists to…