Dental health education is important to overall health for our children. Again this year, APS is pleased to welcome Embracing Futures into our classroom.
Once again this year, oral health will be on the curriculum i
nside APS classrooms for 2018-19.
Of the 6,000+ students taught last year, around 1,600 were third grade students in Akron.
They can look for
Kelly Hershberger or Kara Bisesi,
Embracing Futures'
registered dental hygienists/instructors, who teach the course.
Our thanks to
Traci Buckner,
e
xec
utive director of the
Akron Children’s Museum
for
reward
ing
kids
last school year
with free admission for one day to the
m
useum if
students
brought her their 30-day tooth
brushing calendar, all filled in
(those would be fillings, we guess!)
This year, Doug Piekarz at the Akron Zoo, and Pete Fierle at the Pro Football H
all of Fame have
join
ed
the team and
will
reward kids, too, for taking care of their teeth.
The folks at Embracing Futures have one very tough question for Doug at the zoo, though. "W
ho brushes the grizzly bears
'
teeth?”