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Volunteer to Help Make a Difference
Decisions For Living (DFL) tutors work with inmates in the Bucks County Correctional Facilities, teaching a process that emphasizes self-awareness, personal responsibility, critical thinking, and goal...
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Vita Receives Contribution from Centennial Education Association
Pictured left to right are Maritza Aucay, Vita Family Literacy Childcare Worker/Assistant; Karina Wegelius, Vita’s Director of ESL Programs; Centennial School District Reading Specialist Erin Landy;...
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Asking the Right Questions
“Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.” – Edward De Bono Cognitive skills are brain-based activities that involve thinking. They’re the mental processes...
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Feelings and Decision Making
Blame Mr. Spock. One of the biggest myths of decision making is if you want to make a good decision, keep your feelings out of it. Spock was all logic and no emotion. But this didn’t always work out...
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Making Choices Easier
You may have heard about the jam studies done by Sheena Iyengar in the late 1990s. In the study she offered samples of jam to shoppers in a gourmet grocery store. Some of the time shoppers were...
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Celebrating Linda Wolfson
Linda Wolfson, center of first row, pictured with Vita Board members. Over 100 people honored Linda Wolfson on the occasion of her retirement from Vita Education Services on June 23, at Spring Mill...
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Boundaries
At Vita we talk a lot about boundaries when preparing people to teach Decisions. Boundaries define your role and relationship to the client. Boundaries include issues of: time, place, self-disclosure,...
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Celebrating the Faces of Success
Teachers and students celebrated students’ achievements at Vita’s year-end ceremony. Doylestown, PA (August 27, 2018) Vita hosted a gathering of students, tutors, and teachers from the Literacy...
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Baby Steps
“Not only does moving the goalposts forward tend to increase our motivation, but we repeatedly prove to ourselves that we’re capable of accomplishing them.” Shane Parrish The goal gradient theory...
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Transitioning to a Better Life
Decisions For Change (DFC), our cognitive skills program for adults on probation and parole, was recently evaluated. Results showed that six months after DFC, 56% of those who completed the course had...
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A Fond Farewell
After eight years at Vita, preceded by 40 years in secondary education, Peggy Blanco has retired from teaching at Vita. Over the years, Peggy had been both an English as a Second Language and a...
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Celebrating the Power of Volunteers
English as a Second Language Tutors Over 75 people attended Vita’s Volunteer Appreciation Brunch on April 27 at Spring Mill Manor. It was a celebration to recognize Vita’s literacy, ESL and Decisions...
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Celebrating the Faces of Success
Vita hosted a gathering of students, tutors, and teachers from the Literacy Tutoring and High School Equivalency programs to recognize and honor student and volunteer achievements during the past...
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We Need Your Expertise
Vita is looking for volunteers from the business community to help our students succeed. Our new “Grow Your Own Business” course combines English language learning with studies in American civics and a...
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Learning Continues Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Vita staff, teachers, tutors, and students are rising to the challenges of working, sharing, and learning from home. In an impressive effort, directors and coordinators worked to mobilize plans for...
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Interactive Literacy Activities
One of the important components of the Family Literacy programs is Interactive Literacy Activities (ILA), which engage parents and children in shared learning experiences in the classroom. Now that...
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From the Executive Director
Since mid-March, Vita staff has been working hard to respond to the challenges, effects, and government-mandated restrictions of the Covid-19 crisis. We have mobilized plans for online instruction and...
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Grant Supports Online Learning
Vita has been awarded a $7,000 grant from the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority under the COVID-19 Emergency Non-profit Relief Program (ENRP) to support Vita’s vital services to combat the negative...
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COVID-19 Safety Plan
Vita has formulated a plan to resume in-person operations as allowable under orders of the Governor of Pennsylvania and with guidance from PA Department of Education, the Center for Disease and...
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Vita Receives COVID Recovery Funding
Vita is honored to share that we have received a grant from the Bucks County COVID-19 Recovery Fund. The fund was established by United Way of Bucks County, with additional funding from Penn Community...
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