by Dominic Bills | Sep 2, 2014 | News |
“With a strong and healthy beginning, children can more easily stay on track to remain in school and graduate, pursue postsecondary education and training and successfully transition into adulthood.” – 2013 Kids Count Data Book Quality...
by root | Jun 26, 2014 | News |
Summertime in Utah brings local school children fun in the sun, family road trips and visits from the ice cream truck. And, summertime can also bring summer learning loss for our school children. Studies have found that nearly all children lose knowledge over the...
by David Bayles | May 22, 2014 | News |
The Diversity Club at the Walden Teen Center took an exciting trip to the Navajo Reservation from May 9-11. Our student Jaiden’s family lives on the reservation and invited us to come visit. They helped us plan an exciting weekend filled with really fun...
by David Bayles | May 14, 2014 | News |
The Discovery art discovery class at the Franklin Elementary afterschool program learned about the famous artist Jackson Pollock and his messy but fun splatter paint techniques. Kids cut out a design and then taped that to a big piece of butcher paper. Then, they went...
by David Bayles | May 7, 2014 | News |
For the past 3 months, everyday in afterschool clubs, Walden students have been hard at work memorizing lines and rehearsing their parts for the production of Animal Farm. Not only did they learn their parts, they also sang, as there were several musical numbers! ...
by David Bayles | Apr 3, 2014 | News |
The South Franklin Teen Boys & Girls Club Program visited the BYU Living Legends dance group. The group performed Native American, Latin American, and Polynesian dances and sang a couple of cultural songs for our members. Our youth were then invited to learn the...
