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Addressing Mental Health in Schools: Funding to Services

WebMichele seeks to merge the fields of education and mental health and aims to bridge the gap between school and home by working with teachers and parents to provide children with a loving and safe environment where they can flourish. Addressing mental health in schools has never been more vital.

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How Schools Are Helping with the Student Mental Health Crisis

WebSchools are seen as the primary source of providing wrap-around services to students whether they are equipped to do so or not. Attempts have been made to support the mental health of students—including incorporating social-emotional learning, revamping discipline practices, and hiring more clinical staff—but it still feels like it isn’t

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Creating a Safe Space for Learning: Strategies for Educators

WebKathryn Kennedy (she/her/hers) Founder and Executive Director, Wellness for Educators Dr. Kathryn Kennedy (she/her/hers) serves as founder and executive director of Wellness for Educators, a 501(c)3 nonprofit focused on supporting educators with whole-system, research-based, trauma- and equity-informed, mind-body education, practices, …

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Racial Equity Work in Education: Beyond Performative Change

WebEquity work is a form of deep learning and three shifts will help racial equity work in education move from performative to substantive change. The movement for racial equity, magnified by the Black Lives Matter movement, has been the most consequential force for change in U.S. education over the past half dozen years.

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Healing Schools After COVID-19 with Systemic Change NGLC

WebSome schools and districts are partnering with organizations that can provide just-in-time therapy and coaching to support educators’ mental health and wellness. Additionally, some schools and districts are collaborating with mind-body practitioners to provide healing opportunities through practices such as play, Qigong, yoga, art, etc. 3.

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High School Wellness Policy & Program for Students NGLC

WebThe goal of the Wellness Center is to support students in leading healthy and balanced lives. This program is designed to help students improve their self-awareness and relationship skills through classroom instruction, outreach (“coaching”), and restorative practices. The center focuses on helping students manage their emotions and

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Cornerstone Charter Schools: Cornerstone Health + Technology …

WebThis health-focused high school model sheds traditional classrooms, grade levels, and schedules in favor of personalized online content, small-group work, a continuum of mastery from beginner to professional, and comprehensive student support. Rethinking the instructional and support staff, Cornerstone Charter Health utilizes Relationship

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K-12 Education Network Effects & Benefits NGLC

WebIn an earlier post, Connection is Fundamental, I explored the underlying vitality of connection and flow in our world and how this can create opportunity and health in our lives and in learning.According to network theory and practice, it can make a big difference when we are aware of who is and is not connected and then act intentionally to build and …

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Does Your Classroom Design Affect Student Learning

WebNow that you know, it might be time to take a fresh look at your classroom. Consider how: Furniture can influence your students’ behavior. Classroom layout contributes to collaboration. Colors might stimulate learning. Temperature might impact concentration. Acoustics could improve communication. Lighting can inspire students.

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Building a Sense of Schools as Communities of Care NGLC

WebDesigning for Equity. Schools that operate as communities of care develop a sense of safety, a sense of belonging, a sense of joy, and a sense of hope in all of their students. They provide the foundation for students to truly thrive. The last several months have been challenging to say the least. From the response to the coronavirus pandemic

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Whole-Child Learning Strategies for COVID Pivots & Beyond

Web1 Aspects of the MyWays Student Success Framework that those focusing on social emotional development and well-being might find helpful include: Report 1, Introduction and Overview of the MyWays Student Success Series, which references the Human Development (along with Education and Work-Related) success frameworks …

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Powerful Mantras for Success in Distinctive Schools NGLC

WebWhen educators design and create new schools, and live next gen learning themselves, they take the lead in growing next gen learning across the nation.Other educators don’t simply follow and adopt; next gen learning depends on personal and community agency—the will to own the change, fueled by the desire to learn from and …

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5 Essential Student Support Systems, Strategies, & Tips NGLC

WebEach of these put students at the center and give students a much greater opportunity to be heard and seen. Looping. Advisory. Student-Led Conferences. Teaming. Movement and Outside Time. 1. Looping. Looping is the idea that a teacher stays with a certain group of students over time.

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School Makerspaces: Building a Community of Problem-Solvers

WebEmily Burk. Makerspace Integration Technology Specialist, Anna High School, Anna Independent School District. Emily Burk is a maker integration technology specialist in a 3,744 square foot public high school makerspace in the North Texas area. Emily has had 22 years of experience in the classroom varying from fine arts, English-language arts

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Importance of Classroom Observation to Improve Student Equity

WebEnsuring access to the arts is important. Making time for discussions about race and equity is important. Building Community Schools and ensuring student mental health is important. Delivering healthy and nutritious meals is important. Ensuring access to technology and the internet is important.

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Racial Bias in Standardized Testing and Equity in Education

WebStereotype Threat. Racial bias in standardized testing shows up in multiple ways. First, Black and Latinx students face stereotype threat. Psychologists Joshua Aronson and Claude Steele have researched how the additional stress of negative stereotypes about students of color and their intelligence manifest in lower test scores.

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Student Learning for Success in the Real World NGLC

WebMyWays Report 11: Learning Design for Broader, Deeper Competencies presents research, design principles, and case studies on key practices, like real-world learning, that support student development of agency, social capital, and competencies for success. Photo at top, courtesy of NGLC: Students at Vista High School engage in real …

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Teaching, Measuring & Assessing Critical Thinking Skills NGLC

WebYes, We Can Define, Teach, and Assess Critical Thinking Skills. Critical thinking is a thing. We can define it; we can teach it; and we can assess it. While the idea of teaching critical thinking has been bandied around in education circles since at least the time of John Dewey, it has taken greater prominence in the education debates with the

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Improving Public Education for the Common Good in America

WebPublic education, or actually, courageous teachers, could be the countervailing force creating a positive feedback loop by reversing the downward spiraling loop caused by the interaction of fear and resistance of individuals to positive participation in the common good with the forces of rentier capitalism. Public education could be how we …

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New Data Tool Displays Struggles, Mastery of Common Core

WebIn the final brief from our Next Gen Tools series, we focus on Spark, a data integration tool created by Merit Prep, a Newark, NJ charter school.

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5 Step Problem Solving Process Model for Students NGLC

WebThe three steps before problem solving: we call them the K-W-I. The “K” stands for “know” and requires students to identify what they already know about a problem. The goal in this step of the routine is two-fold. First, the student needs to analyze the problem and identify what is happening within the context of the problem.

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