We know that solutions will come only through authentic partnerships within communities that need the help: Listen to the voices of residents and enlist trusted neighborhood long-timers.
That wisdom comes from the Oak Cliff-based Momentous Institute, funded by the Salesmanship Club and long in the business of improving the social-emotional health of children and their families.
Momentous devises easily digestible strategies that teachers can use to help all of its 248 students, most of whom live in poverty. For example, starting in the youngest classrooms, children learn how the brain works and how to turn that knowledge into useful coping tools.
Alongside its strong academics, the Momentous School teaches its students, from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade, the biology behind their emotions and how they can self-regulate:
3 brain basics: the amygdala controls emotions, particularly the visceral "fight, flight or freeze reaction; the frontal cortex helps make good decisions; the hippocampus aids memory.
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