Aiming to help adults nurture children’s growing brains
April 9, 2019 Two managers from the Mecklenburg outpost of Smart Start outlined the group's advocacy for improving child care and the programs it uses to support families and their children less than 6 years old. Smart Start is funded through state and private funds, and is not related to the ... Continue Reading →
‘Reclaim 37’: Examining Beatties Ford Road corridor as it changes
April 2, 2019 Truth to tell, the Beatties Ford Road corridor has been undergoing change since John Beatty followed trading paths to the Catawba and opened a ferry to points west like Morganton. Reclaim 37 is a reference to the 1960s I-85 interchange that bulldozed parts of the corridor on Johnson ... Continue Reading →
3 women helping their clients rebuild their lives
March 26, 2019 The three women who gathered at the Forum presenters' table today operate in a societal space populated by the homeless, the sick, the destitute, the jobless, the skill-less, the hopeless. Each has her silo, but they have been known to work together for the benefit of their ... Continue Reading →
Official discusses books published by JCSU
Feb. 26, 2019 Dr. Diane Bowles, vice president for government sponsored programs and research, and executive director of the Smith Institute for Applied Research at Johnson C. Smith University, this morning discussed two books published by the university. One of the books is "Let There Be Light: ... Continue Reading →
Promoting understanding of the complicated insurance world
Jan. 29, 2019 Robin Tolliver-Ayotunde is an insurance broker. Her background is in health insurance. On Tuesday she presented herself as marketing director for World Financial Group, a Transamerica unit based in Georgia and with a Charlotte office on Independence. She answered lots of questions ... Continue Reading →
Vakala outlines a ‘cultural strategy’ to undergird action for change
Jan. 22, 2019 Vakala thinks deeply about culture, and how most people allow themselves to be defined by whatever culture they join or find themselves in. One of his examples this morning: On 9/11, he says he saw most of his African-American friends on the UNC Chapel Hill campus consider the ... Continue Reading →
Fielding tools & people to help struggling readers
Chart illustrates how, on a schoolwide basis, reading test scores tend to fall as the prevalence of family poverty at a school increases. At right, Read Charlotte's Munro Richardson. Dec. 4, 2018 If only, with a tip of his right finger, Munro Richardson could lift the right end of the line up, up ... Continue Reading →
How to build daily lives that nurture all children
Nov. 13, 2018 In most discussions like this morning's, people speak out of their silos and talk past one another. Today, there was some engagement across silos. Perhaps some more communication will occur in the future. Dr. Betty Howell Gray advises groups on how schools can improve children's ... Continue Reading →
JCSU President Clarence D. Armbrister introduces himself
Aug. 21, 2018 Clarence D. Armbrister is a lawyer and investment banker by training and most of his work experience. Eight months in to his term as 14th president of Johnson C. Smith University, little wonder that the first of the four "Rs" outlining his goals at JCSU is "resources." It's hard to ... Continue Reading →
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