Join us on May 23, 2018, 2-4 PM in Nettie-Louise Coit Garden for the rain date for spring spruce up.

About D-E Garden Project

Help keep our beautiful teaching gardens in shape by participating in three annual work parties and signing up to water the vegetables and take care of the chickens during school holidays. Garden Parents also serve as “critical friends” by listening to students who are planning, planting and building and offering questions and suggestions from an adult perspective.

Volunteers Needed!

In addition to innumerable willing worker bees with any level of experience, the Garden Project needs a work-party coordinator who will reach out to us all, collect RSVPs and organize refreshments.

Join us on May 2, 2018, 2-4 PM in Nettie-Louise Coit Garden for happy spring spruce up:  tidy and mulch paths and beneficial insect habitat borders,  review how to water and sign up for summer watering turns, reinstall chickens and review their care, sign up for summer chicken care turns.

About D-E Garden Project

Help keep our beautiful teaching gardens in shape by participating in three annual work parties and signing up to water the vegetables and take care of the chickens during school holidays. Garden Parents also serve as “critical friends” by listening to students who are planning, planting and building and offering questions and suggestions from an adult perspective.

Volunteers Needed!

In addition to innumerable willing worker bees with any level of experience, the Garden Project needs a work-party coordinator who will reach out to us all, collect RSVPs and organize refreshments.

Fête&Fare is the new annual cultural gathering hosted by the D-E Parents’ Association (PA). Each year, a different PA Affinity Group will host Fête&Fare in celebration of a unique holiday around the world to raise cultural awareness and to cherish the diversity in our D-E community.

Click here to download the flyer.

Two educational opportunities for D-E Parents/Guardians:

“No, It’s Not Too Early: Nurturing Healthy Sexual and Gender Development Begins at Birth” 

• MORNING Session for Lower School Parents & Guardians
• 8:00 – 9:30 AM (Hulst House, Leggett Hall) 

“Never Too Late: How to Raise Sexually Healthy Middle and High School Kids” 

• EVENING Session for Middle/Upper School Parents & Guardians
•  7:00 – 9:00 PM (Location TBD)

Click here to download the flyer.

Click here to read Deborah Roffman’s latest article on the New York Times.

Join us on November 1, 2018, 2-4 PM in Nettie-Louise Coit Garden to put the garden to bed: tidy and mend the fence, dress the raised beds with compost.

About D-E Garden Project

Help keep our beautiful teaching gardens in shape by participating in three annual work parties and signing up to water the vegetables and take care of the chickens during school holidays. Garden Parents also serve as “critical friends” by listening to students who are planning, planting and building and offering questions and suggestions from an adult perspective.

Volunteers Needed!

In addition to innumerable willing worker bees with any level of experience, the Garden Project needs a work-party coordinator who will reach out to us all, collect RSVPs and organize refreshments.

Click here for more information.

Join us on October 4, 2018, 2-4 PM in Nettie-Louise Coit Garden for orientation time — meet the chickens and learn how to look after them, chicken care sign up; plant fall bulbs, mulch and maintain paths.

About D-E Garden Project

Help keep our beautiful teaching gardens in shape by participating in three annual work parties and signing up to water the vegetables and take care of the chickens during school holidays. Garden Parents also serve as “critical friends” by listening to students who are planning, planting and building and offering questions and suggestions from an adult perspective.

Volunteers Needed!

In addition to innumerable willing worker bees with any level of experience, the Garden Project needs a work-party coordinator who will reach out to us all, collect RSVPs and organize refreshments.

Click here for more information.

For more information about Dr. G, visit: www.askdoctorg.com

To view Dr. G’s TEDx Talk on The Expectation Gap, click here

Visit www.projectcicero.org for more info!

Admission, skate rental, and refreshments all provided by the D-E Parents’ Association.

Bring the whole family! Helmets suggested for new (and/or nervous!) skaters!

Check-in at the table just past the main entrance from 4 – 6 PM.

Tickets will be provided for a meal from a prix fixe offering at the concession stand, as the Ice House doesn’t allow outside food and drinks at their facility.

Join the Bulldog spirit!

Cheer for MS Boys Basketball team in their game against Maywood Avenue School.

All proceeds benefit Student Activities at D-E

Details:

• Celebrate the end of your first semester!
• Select from specialty lunch items including:
  Empanadas, sushi, chicken teriyaki bowls, cupcake cones, rice krispie treats, and donuts.
• Cash only: All entrees are $5.00 each; drinks and desserts are $1.00 each. Quantities limited.
• Lunch will still be available from FLIK for students who do not wish to purchase food at the Bulldog FOODraiser
• Coop will close at 11:00 AM and reopen at 4:00 PM that day

Food Provided by:

Empanada Mania, Biddy O’Malley’s, Food for Life, Krispy Kreme, Sarku Japan

Join us for this timely, helpful educational workshop in which Nancy Siegel will introduce attendees to:

• Relaxation, self-regulation and calming techniques for stress relief for you and your children
• Tools to use to move from a state of reactivity and anxiety to a state of balance and engagement
• Dynamic listening tips to create openness, communication and acceptance to not only one another, but to new ideas, new thinking and new inspiration
• Techniques to learn how to make good choices and stay focused

About Nancy Siegel

Nancy is a nationally recognized presenter, trainer and instructor in mindfulness and children’s yoga.  She has more than 25 years of experience practicing yoga, mindfulness and teaching children’s yoga.  She began her career in the early childhood classroom and currently is an Educational Consultant specializing in mindfulness education and children’s yoga teacher training.

Nancy has created and implemented educationally based and yoga inspired programming that has resonated with school leaders, educators, parents and children.  In her work with educators she advocates, nurtures and supports teacher learning, development and growth.

Nancy founded and directed Nesheemah Yoga Center (breath in Hebrew). Outgrowths of the yoga center include CADDY Camp and Nesheemah Kids Yoga Teacher Training (NKYTT).  CADDY Camp, which stands for Circus, Art, Drama, Dance and Yoga, was a creative arts camp that Nancy created and directed for 10 years for 6-11 yr. olds. NKYTT is a 95-hr. Yoga Alliance Accredited Children’s Yoga Teacher Training and is a RCYS (Registered Children’s Yoga School).

Nancy has an M.A. in Educational Leadership, completed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training, holds E-RYT-200 as well as RCYT Yoga Alliance accreditations and is a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher Trainer.