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Mount Tabor Elementary adds therapy dog Mia to school program
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Mount Tabor Elementary introduced Mia, a therapy dog trained with Colton Kiser Foundation support, to help calm students and support reading activities, school speakers said.
Mount Tabor Elementary introduced Mia, a therapy dog whose training was paid for by the Colton Kiser Foundation, speakers said during a recent school presentation.
School presenters said Mia — raised by Tisha Barbie, a fourth-grade teacher at Mount Tabor, and trained through six weeks of obedience instruction followed by nine months of therapy-dog training — now regularly accompanies students in the library and during morning meetings to provide emotional support and reading practice. "I want to thank the Colton Kiser Foundation for allowing Mia to be…
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