The Charlotte Jewish News - November 2014 - Page 18
Schools
Joined in Education 2015
The Big Disconnect — Technology and
Family Relationships
Blessings in a Backpack
Day
Catherine Steiner Adair
JIE 2015 will address a very
exeiting and relevant topie for
today’s families. Catherine Steiner
Adair, author of The Big Discon
nect: Protecting Childhood and
Family Relationships in the Digi
tal Age will be in Charlotte on
February 3 and 4 to address the
ehallenge of navigating the terrain
of both aeeepting teehnology and
the ineredible learning opportuni
ties that it affords, but similarly,
reeognizing the missed soeializa-
tion interaetions and mixed mes
sages that exeessive sereen time
ereates in individuals and fami
lies. Adair looks at ehildren and
the amount of sereen time that
ehildren have from the age of tod
dlers until they beeome adults,
and how that affeets their soeial-
ization skills and their eommuni-
eation habits. She also looks at the
influenees that parents play in the
dynamies as adults spend more
time on email, on tablets and other
forms of mobile teehnology.
As the sehool year begins, al
ready there were signifieant pieees
in the Washington Post and on
NPR addressing the digital eonun-
drum we are in. Adair addresses
how as parents we must embraee
teehnology and all of the advan
tages it affords us, but also how
we must be judieious and respon
sible in our usage—ehildren and
parents. Links to these stories ean
be found on the Joined In Eduea-
tion website @joinedineduea-
tion.org.
Now in its fourth year, this two-
day edueational symposium is not
only a fund-raiser for Charlotte
Jewish Day Sehool, Charlotte
Jewish Presehool, and The Jewish
Presehool on Sardis, it is an event
that parents and ehild eare profes
sionals look to as a very valuable
and well respeeted resouree for
quality programming. The event
and all workshops are open to the
greater Charlotte eommunity.
Tiekets are $36 eaeh and ean be
ordered @www.joinedineduea-
tion.org.
For more information
www.joinedinedueation.org
eall 704-366-4558. «
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JOINED
IN EDUCATION
Mayor Clodfelter of Charlotte
was one of many mayors aeross
the eountry who took part in Na
tional Blessings in a Baekpaek
Day at Fluntingtowne Farms Ele
mentary, Temple Israel’s partner
sehool. The mayor, along with
volunteers from Temple Israel as
well as outside the Jewish eom
munity stuffed baekpaeks of food
whieh go home with homeless
and at-risk ehildren every Friday.
The mayor did so as part of a na
tionwide effort to eombat ehild-
hood hunger.
Every weekend, ehildren
aeross the eountry go hungry.
While fed during the sehool week
by the Federal Free
and Redueed Priee
Meal Program, these
students have little or
no means of obtaining
food on the weekends.
At Fluntingtowne
Farms Elementary
Sehool, 84% of the
students qualify for
this program. Bless
ings in a Baekpaek is a
501(e)3 organization
that provides food for
more than 65,000 of
these elementary
sehool ehildren aeross
45 different states on
weekends during the
sehool year, filling a signifieant
hunger gap for these ehildren.
Traey and Larry Brown, members
of Temple Israel, deeided to
“adopt” Fluntingtowne Farms El
ementary as a Blessings in a
Baekpaek sehool in 2012 and
asked the temple to assist in eol-
leeting food and proeuring volun
teers to stuff the baekpaeks.
The United States Conferenee
of Mayors passed a resolution in
June deelaring Thursday, Septem
ber 18, “Blessings in a Baekpaek
Day.” Mayor Clodfelter is one
mayor who took part in this initia
tive aeross the eountry.^
Principal Carolyn Rodd, Mayor Clodfelter, Tracy
Brown, and three students from Huntingtowne
Farms Elementary School.
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For more information, visit: charlottejcc.org/jawsathon
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