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  In recent years, there has been a surge  of research into early brain development. Neuroimaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), provide increased insight about how the brain develops and how early experiences affect...

It took two years of weekly meetings between parents and organizers, but now 12 parent leaders at Cherokee Point Elementary School in City Heights, a mostly low-income urban neighborhood with 91,000 residents in San Diego, are teaching people about...

From Beth Sarver at Truman Medical Center's Resilience Incubator for a summit June 8-12, 2015:   TMC’s Resilience Incubator invites Schools from all over the KC Metro area to attend their Inaugural Resilient Schools Facilitator Summit....

  One kid’s trauma can be  a lot to handle . Managing a whole school of kids who have been traumatized  can seem insurmountable.  These kids are more likely to act out in class, have attendance problems, and get lower grades...

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health invites eligible organizations in Texas to respond to this request for proposals (RFP) to fund programs that employ evidence-based or promising emerging practices to move school-based discipline programs away...

      Childhood Trauma:     "The elephant in the [class] room".. . and it doesn't "just go away"   Dear Governor Wolf and Education Secretary designee Rivera : I write regarding injured, marginalized children in our schools, to ask that you include them explicitly in a broad, “Healthy State” paradigm in your new administration.   Read more at: WHYY NewsWorks   http://lucidwitness.com/…/childhood-trauma-versus-public-e…/...

  What's more important ?                                   Test data or life data ?     http://lucidwitness.com/2015/0...data-or-life-data-2/  ...

I n the first few years of life, children begin to piece together an awareness of the thoughts, feelings and desires of the people around them, gradually building skills to help them succeed in our social world.   While many studies have examined...

  A school district in a low-income area of East Palo Alto [California] is hoping to lower dropout rates by launching a health and wellness program that includes yoga. The Ravenswood School District is launching the program in partnership with the Sonima Foundation. “What we’re going to do here in Ravenswood is we’re going to provide 3,400 children with a curriculum in health and wellness. The benefits are basically higher attendance, less bullying and violence, higher...

  Nearly 50 years after it was established, Head Start is still serving thousands of children locally and keeping parent involvement a top priority. "Parent involvement has always been an integral part of Head Start," said Janis Santos, executive...

Do you think that this research is a good example of why having people work cross-sector to create trauma-informed communities is important? If teachers knew this, do you think they'd be active in supporting perinatal classes for parents, perhaps even...

For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation. The Southern Education...