Celebrating Your Child’s High School Rite of Passage!

I vividly reminder when my precious son turned one year of age. We celebrated with a delightful family birthday party that included a committed family and friends’ rite of passage. Our rite of passage included:

• Asking all to become part of a village of support as guardians and godparents in our son’s journey to adulthood
• Standing in a circle and having all explain how they would support my son’s emotional and social growth
• Offering words of encouragement on how they would support their newly adopted godson as aunties and uncles
• Envisioning how our son would mature into young adulthood
• Providing a prayer of thanks to all for being part of our extended family in our son’s village

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Yvette King-Berg, College Readiness

Yvette King-Berg, is the Executive Director of Youth Policy Institute’s Charter Schools. She was the former California Charter Schools Association Vice-President of School Development and Outreach-Southern California. Ms. King-Berg has over thirty years of experience working with teachers, students, parents, and organizations in a variety of positions including Director, Assistant Director, Curriculum Advisor, Bilingual, and Title 1 Coordinators, classroom teacher (K-12) in Pasadena and LAUSD. She has been married for twenty-three years, and is the proud mother of her son, EJ, who attends UC Berkeley.