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Nurtured Heart Approach Workshops

October 2, 2023

10/2/23

You are invited to a special series of workshops designed to give you parenting tools/ideas. YES is hosting Nurtured Heart Approach (NHA) workshops for parents and caregivers on October 4th, 11th, and 18th. The workshops will be after school from 3:00 to 4:00.

IF YOU WILL NEED CHILDCARE PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME SO I CAN MAKE ARRANGEMENTS.

NHA is part of the tools we use here at the school when caring for your child/children.

The three event series is hosted by myself and I am truly hoping to NOT be the only one showing up. The workshop is provided by NHA certified trainers.

Nurtured Heart Approach is an evidence based way of inspiring greatness in children. YES trains all teaching and support staff in this method.

Please take this opportunity to add tools to your tool shed and to meet other YES parents. I look forward to seeing you there!I will have refreshments to share.
Please reach out with any questions or concerns you may have

Dawn Kaundart,

Family Liaison 530-692-2210

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The level of cultural sophistication has also sometimes been used to distinguish civilizations from less complex societies. Such hierarchical perspectives on culture are also found in class-based distinctions between a high culture of the social elite and a low culture, popular culture, or folk culture of the lower classes, distinguished by the stratified access to cultural capital. In common parlance, culture is often used to refer specifically to the symbolic markers used by ethnic groups to distinguish themselves visibly from each other such as body modification, clothing or jewelry.

Mass culture refers to the mass-produced and mass mediated forms of consumer culture that emerged in the 20th century. Some schools of philosophy, such as Marxism and critical theory, have argued that culture is often used politically as a tool of the elites to manipulate the proletariat and create a false consciousness. Such perspectives are common in the discipline of cultural studies.

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