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Twice a
week, 10 at-risk students from Oakmont Elementary School are bussed
to the Aiko Institute where they participate in such carefully structured
group activities as noncompetitive games, exercises, discussion circles,
and other innovative forms of training and conversation.
Please make a tax-deductible gift to Aiko Institute today. Not only will your contribution go a long way toward fulfilling our Rise and Shine kids’ basic program needs, it will help build their confidence and self-esteem – fundamental traits necessary for having success in school, and ultimately, in life!To learn more about ways in which you can help change the life of a child, or for information about Aiko Institute’s wide array of programs and services, call 909-624-7770.
RISE AND SHINE STAFF Susan
Perry, Ph.D.,
taught philosophy in the California State University system for 10
years. She has practiced aikido for 27 years and currently holds the
aikido rank of godan. With her husband, she founded Musubi Dojo, a
nationally known school at which she has been the director of an aikido
program for grade school children for more than 20 years. For 18 years
she served as editor-in-chief of Aikido Today Magazine. Jeanne
Fryer, Ph.D., taught grade school children in Claremont before
starting a community clinic to restore life activity to people with
traumatic brain injury. She is currently a faculty associate in teacher
education at Claremont Graduate Thomas Amberson, Psy.D., in private practice as a psychologist, specializes in working with young people.
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Aiko
Institute’s Rise and Shine Leadership Program is designed to
help elementary school
aikido, conflict resolution, one-on- one counseling, and parenting
classes, the Rise and Shine program is based on the peaceful practice
of aikido – an eastern art founded on the philosophy of awareness,
self control, and an attitude of humility and gratitude, as well as
respect for all living things. The components support one another,
taking place during the same one-hour class held after school, twice
a week.
For
its 2004-2005 inaugural year, the Rise and Shine Leadership Program
was funded from Title One money through Oakmont Elementary School,
in the Claremont Unified School District, with grant monies provided
for bus transportation by the city’s Kiwanis Club. The program
was a resounding success! Before the end of the school year, half
the children in the program had earned school-wide awards for academic
improvement. Aiko Institute is focused on continuing this program
for a minimum of three more years, allowing the children who began
the program to continue through the often difficult middle school
years. The Institute will work toward developing a curriculum, book
and teaching protocols so that the program may be offered as a model
for other education professionals.
The
cost per child, per year to participate in the Rise and Shine Leadership
Program is more than $4,500! With 10 children taking part annually,
the weight of this enormous responsibility places a major strain on
our nonprofit budget. 