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Brainchild of Stay-at-Home Moms, Semi-Annual Kids Consignment Sale Returns for 6th Year in Greenwich

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Tiny Tots is a semi-annual consignment sale that was founded in 2011 by sisters and stay at-home-moms, Annie Schreck and Mary Slaugenhoup. Special incentives are given to event Volunteers and Consignors who donate their unsold product.

The highly anticipated five day event, known for having unbelievable prices on over 40,000 new and gently used items for moms, infants, toddlers and children, has grown to one of Connecticut’s leading consignment sales with participants and shoppers from across the Tri-State Area and New England. Special incentives are given to event Volunteers and Consignors who donate their unsold product. Continue Reading →

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Project-Based Learning at GHS Innovation Lab Culminates in Bruce Museum Exhibition

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Greenwich High School’s Innovation Lab students were on the spot Tuesday night at Bruce Museum, where they explained their Humanities and STEM self-portrait projects face-to-face with the public. The exhibit followed Monday night’s screening of Most Likely to Succeed, a documentary film that opens with a look back at the origins of public school in the US, and presents a grim outlook for the jobs market, in which blue collar jobs are automated and people, along with both the current K-12 education model are obsolete. The majority of the film focuses on High Tech High, a charter school that, like Innovation Lab at GHS, embraces project based learning and increased collaboration with the community at large. Continue Reading →

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In Old Greenwich, The Nanny Trainers Work with Families and their Nanny or Au Pair

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The Nanny Trainers founder Emily Barrett says that unlike hiring a babysitter, if someone is with your child 20 hours a week or more, like it or not, they are helping raise your children. The Nanny Trainers comes up with a game plan, devising routines and schedules for the children. She helps nannies and au pairs with strategies for the particular child.
“I teach them to support the child’s emotional development, offer stimulating activities and teach them how to raise an independent child.” – Emily Barrett, Founder, The Nanny Trainers Continue Reading →

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Riverside School 3rd Grade Teacher’s “The Sweet Spot” and Sequel Picked up by Spellbound River Press

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The inspiration for The Sweet Spot came from a conversation Mozer had with the director of a baseball sleep away camp. When asked whether a thirteen-year-old girl could attend the camp, the director said, “I mean I can’t say she can’t come. But, you know it is a sleep away camp, that she would have to sleep here.”

After doing additional research and talking to girls who had experienced being the only girl on a boy’s team, the plot of The Sweet Spot was born. Continue Reading →

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Be Safe. Stop. Think. Act. at Cos Cob Fire House

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A Greenwich Schools Social-Emotional Learning event, funded with a grant from the Greenwich Alliance: Saturday, January 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cos Cob Fire House. •  Meet the people that keep you safe: Firefighters, Police Officers, and Paramedics

•  Enjoy free Coffee, Hot Chocolate & Cookies

•  Explore the fire and GEMS trucks, and police cars

•  Get your picture taken and decorate your own frame

•  Get safety tips from the experts

•  Leave with a great memory Continue Reading →

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