![]() ![]() Time to her students once every school day. In just one training session, Snyder learned the necessary poses, breathing exercises and songs for her to offer M.Y. “It was so neat seeing her and her attitude about the whole thing that made us really excited to get started,” Snyder said. Last summer, Tripolitis offered a day of training to prepare Snyder and her fellow kindergarten teachers at Cornwall Terrace Elementary so that they were in a position to begin implementing the program at the start of the school year. “If the kids have the tools to regulate and manage their behaviors, intervention may not be needed.” Karen Tripolitis, wearing a grey Mindful Roots T-shirt, teaching educators during an onsite training session. “The University of Pennsylvania did a study that showed that for every dollar spent on social-emotional learning programs, $11 came back of costs that were not incurred for interventions,” she said. She said that early prevention is key over intervention. “I have had teachers say that kids don’t know how to look at one another and don’t speak to one another due to precautions during the pandemic”. “We have to listen to our educators who are telling us, ‘These are the trends we are seeing,'” she said. Time helps build positive classroom communities, which makes everything run more smoothly. The pandemic impacted children’s social skills and their ability to be in a community with one another and build relationships. “Kids are showing signs that they are more detached from their body and are more sedentary due to increased screen time, but they really want to move - that is the language of children - and this program gives them a space to do that.” “We are having more children with developmental delays in the recent landscape,” Tripolitis said. Last year, she began reaching out to administrators of schools to make them aware of her program as a means to support emotional and social learning. Tripolitis created the program to share with other educators due to the success she found in using yoga as a tool for her students for 14 years. Time movement-based program by Mindful Roots, founded by longtime educator Karen Tripolitis of Amity Township, Berks County, is designed to address these very issues plaguing many schools. Time Program is a 160-page instruction guide to mindfulness and yoga for children. “Each year it is impacting the academics even more,” Snyder said. She and her fellow kindergarten teachers noticed increasing issues among their students with regards to emotional regulation, body awareness and listening and speaking skills that were beginning to concern them. This new record is an ode to old times, and a pledge to keep it dusted.It was perfect timing when kindergarten teacher Dawn Snyder was trained last summer in a mindfulness program for her students in the Wilson School District in Berks County. ![]() Softened but not conditioned, the four members of Capital Youth went individually exploring their own version of punk and returned strong, mindful and loving. The acoustic guitar, the percussions and the synthetic elements build onto the band’s already strong base, allowing for a modern feel in an intimate wrap. Arrangements that are transparent and readable, snappy hooks and a crisp rhythm section make for a perfect ground for a lyrical universe that is contemporary and uniting. ![]() The compositions are spacious and the cadence is slowed to allow space for melodies that are confidently Pop without losing the original punk energy the band is rooted in. Sparing the band some time to work out the finest details of this 12 track record the band already considers to be a real culmination to their 5 years of activity. ![]() ‘Perfect Timing’ by Capital Youth was recorded at the beginning of 2021 when everything was at a standstill. ![]()
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