Tagged With "San Diego"
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Re: Restorative Justice (Kearny Digital Media & Design) 11.38 minutes
Dana, the video clips you have been posting have been excellent. Thank you for sharing the encouraging momentum that is happening in San Diego. Great work!!
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Re: How San Diego Unified is Treating Childhood Trauma (CenterScene) 5.05 minutes
Rock on Dana Brown, Godwin Higa and everyone in San Diego!!!! Exciting things are happening!
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Re: OurSOLES youth leaders led trauma-informed presentation before educators and school staff
Thanks Jennifer for your thoughts. Spot on, it's imperative we create safe spaces for our children and youth to share, learn, and develop their resilience through authentic engagement with caring adults. Excitedly, OurSOLES youth leaders will be facilitating a Parent Engagement - Healthy Relationships on Tuesday evening with the Diego Valley Charter School's Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting. The youth will lead the entire workshop focused on supporting parents and care givers...
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Re: Echo Conference Spotlight: Restorative Justice
Thank you so much, Louise! I'm planning on sharing this with a number of other people in San Diego who are passionate about bringing RJ to our schools in San Diego in increasingly impactful ways! Blessings on your work! :-)
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Re: Chronic absenteeism pervasive in California and nationwide, report shows [edsource.org]
This is probably analogous to what we found in the ACE Study about the relationship of ACE Score to absenteeism from work. This slide is based on self-acknowledged information. VINCENT J. FELITTI, MD San Diego, California VJFMDSDCA@mac.com > On Sep 10, 2018, at 10:06 AMPDT, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com > wrote: >
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Re: Burnout Risk for In-Prison Educators Could Jeopardize Programs for Incarcerated Students
How can I learn more about the Communities of Practice trainings in San Diego: where, when?
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Re: Burnout Risk for In-Prison Educators Could Jeopardize Programs for Incarcerated Students
Dr. Felitti, thank you, I have replied directly to your query.
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Re: schools/classrooms using trauma-informed practices?
Rod: I'm doing a series of stories about trauma-informed schools. Here's the overview: http://acestoohigh.com/2013/03/20/secret-to-fixing-school-discipline/ Here's a story about the work being done by the Washington State Area Health Education Center in Spokane: http://acestoohigh.com/2013/08/20/spokaneschools/ Cherokee Point Elementary in San Diego started out with restorative practices and is now moving to a trauma-informed approach:...
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Re: How are schools incorporating trauma informed practices, if they are at all?
This is a fascinating discussion! Here are some stories I did about trauma-informed schools in Spokane and San Francisco that might provide more information about school-wide approaches. These stories are part of a series about schools that are taking a compassionate approach to school discipline. Later this year, I'll do a story about what a school and district need to have the most success, in terms of reductions in referrals, suspensions, expulsions, absenteeism, and an increase in...
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Trauma-informed program in San Diego teaches parents to train other parents
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...
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Trauma-Responsive Schools Conference in Southern California
HERE this NOW is proud to bring its Trauma-Responsive Schools Conference to California, October 23 – 25, 2019, at the stunning Temecula Creek Inn in Temecula, CA (2 hours north of San Diego; 3-hours south of Los Angeles). This is not a typical conference. Participants will be actively engaged in an immersive experience, rendering more growth - personal and professional. Five diversely skilled and experienced pioneers of trauma-informed schools change are coming together for first time, to...
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Unexpected trends in California’s student discipline data: Suspensions peak in middle school, black kids more likely to be disciplined in segregated schools & more (laschoolreport.com)
There’s been heightened awareness and activism in recent years surrounding the discipline gap, or the occurrence that minorities — black males in particular — are disproportionately suspended or expelled relative to other racial and gender subgroups. But what’s received less attention are some of the other surprising trends embedded deep in data out of California. Black males in California public schools are suspended at a rate 3.6 times greater than the statewide average for all students,...
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Video series shows how San Diego Unified is creating trauma-informed schools
"We're committed to lifting up the work around healing, belonging and inclusion," said Joey Bravo, program associate at The California Endowment (TCE). Joey and his colleagues with TCE's Center for Healthy Communities supported the creation of a series of videos that capture the groundbreaking efforts of the San Diego Unified School District's campaign to create trauma-informed schools. In this series of videos, SDUSD's transformation of their discipline policies...
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Webinar: Cultivating Our Best Selves in Response to COVID-19 | Tuesday, March 17 at Noon PDT
How to use the skills of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) for self and others to be the calm in the storm as we face the unknown. Free Webinar Tuesday, March 17 at Noon PDT Speakers: Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC Zoom Webinar Registration Link: https://zoom.us/j/715837300 Additional ways to join are listed at the bottom of this post. About the webinar leaders: Elaine Miller-Karas is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute and...
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What If Schools Hired Dogs As Therapists? (brightreads.com)
A school in San Diego uses a “facility dog” to offer children a kind of healing that humans sometimes cannot provide. It used to take Mary Skrabucha five minutes to walk across the campus of The O’Farrell Charter School in San Diego. Now it takes her twenty, because with Sejera — a golden retriever — by her side, kids and teachers are constantly stopping to say hello. Sejera isn’t your average friendly retriever. She’s a trained “facility dog” who works with Skrabucha in Family Support...
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Why I believe Gregory Williams, and his book, Shattered By The Darkness, will help save lives and revolutionize healthcare.
When you first hear about it, it sounds unlikely, fact that something that happened to someone in utero, at the age of two months, or four years, or any time in childhood, is what is killing them as an adult, or making them want to die, or making them want to hurt themselves or others. Yet the connection between childhood trauma and adult disease, mental illness, addiction, suicide, violence – most all of society’s ills – is as irrefutable as the myriad truths revealed about it in the...
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Why is Sacramento failing its black students? (newsreview.com)
According to researchers from San Diego State University and University of California, Los Angeles, Sacramento schools disproportionately suspend black boys. The researchers’ new study, “The Capitol of Suspensions: Examining the Racial Exclusion of Black Males in Sacramento County,” revealed that the schools with the worst record are right here in the state capital: The Sacramento City Unified School District has suspended more black boys than any other district in the state—including Los...
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Youth ask San Diego Gang Commission to stay the course on human and sex trafficking issues
Four student leaders from Youth Voice told twelve Commissioners of San Diego’s Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention last month how important it is that they raise awareness, educate the community, and encourage other youth and adults to become involved in eliminating human and sex trafficking in San Diego. The FBI states that among children and teens living on the streets in the United States, involvement in commercial sex activity is a problem of epidemic proportion. California...
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Youth Voice students introduce SDSU college seniors to ACEs
Youth Voice leaders (left to right) Katherine, Lizette, Jessica, Adrian, Tatiana, Sienna and Angel Seven youth leaders traveled to San Diego State University last week to explain the science of adverse childhood experiences and the impact of complex trauma, as well as their journey of resilience and transformation to thirty seniors in the university's Counseling and Psychology Department. Youth Voice has created a sanctuary for youth, ages 11 to 20, to share, learn and create messages of...
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Re: John Wetten Elementary School offers traumatized kids a springboard to hope (pamplinmedia.com)
It might be of interest to collect anonymous student answers to the one-page version of the ACE Questionnaire and then pool the anonymous results so they could be projected to a trial group of older students for their discussion of what they think this information means. This has been done a few times in city newspapers and college newspapers with very meaningful discussions resulting. VINCENT J. FELITTI, MD San Diego, California VJFMDSDCA@mac.com > On Feb 27, 2017, at 6:58 AMPST,...
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Re: Trauma-informed Schools: What Can YOU Do?
Hi, Drew: Thank you for your amazing, inspirational post! Recalling our meeting together last year, please know I'd like to schedule a phone meeting with you for a few minutes on including your trauma-informed online video courses with the menu of training opportunities on behalf of our San Diego region which our San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team's Training Committee is compiling.
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Re: Trauma-informed Schools: What Can YOU Do?
Hello, Dana, Thank you for your kind words! I recall from our phone conversation that you infuse an exorbitant amount of heart, talent and vision into trauma informed work to help so many people. Yes, I would like to speak with you about including my trauma-informed online video courses in the opportunities you are compiling as part of the San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team's Training committee. Please reach out at your convenience.
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Re: San Diego Unified Launching New Food Recovery Program (timesofsandiego.com)
Dana, thank you for sharing this incredible article. Almost every school across the country is throwing food away after each meal, it has never made any sense to me. San Diego is setting up an incredible model for others to follow. At Lincoln, I told my cook we weren't going to follow district policy and that I would cover her back with her supervisor Brooke would make one trip down the hallway and all of the leftovers would be gone. Students would share, "Thanks Brooke, I'm still hungry, or...
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Re: San Diego Unified Launching New Food Recovery Program (timesofsandiego.com)
Thanks Jim! Absolutely concurring with you, it has always boggled my mind (and hurt my heart) that restaurants, schools, etc. throw away food at the end of the day. At a minimum, it should be composted. Thrilled San Diego Unified School District is a community of practice for other schools to model, my hope is the restaurant industry is soon to follow. Grateful to hear you were doing the same at Lincoln High in Walla Walla... It's heartbreaking to think there are myriad students and families...
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Re: How Teachers Learn to Discuss Racism (theatlantic.com)
Yes, so true! Thank you Dr. Felitti. Wonder if Dr. Rodney Hood in San Diego has relevant insight respectively. Please know I'll reach out to Dr. Hood.
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Re: How Teachers Learn to Discuss Racism (theatlantic.com)
In Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect , editors PL Thomas, B Porfilio, P Carr, and J Gorlewski curated a beautiful volume for teachers. It explores topics of social justice in education with empathy and compassion. And Chris Emdin's For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood..And The Rest of Y'all Too is another amazing tool that addresses the same concerns. Emdin also writes about the role of Hip Hop music in education as a pathway for mitigating racism and discrimination. Pulling it all...
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Re: Closing the Empathy Gap in Education
Thank you so much Lee-Anne for your post! The Connect Group's development of your empathy circles is an exemplary model of intentional listening, reflection and sharing through authentic vulnerability. Profound! Having the blessing of your youth leaders facilitating and teaching empathy circles with our systems engaged youth in our City of San Diego Commission on Gang Prevention & Intervention's Youth Sub-Committee, we were grateful for their leadership on behalf of our youths' skill...
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Virtual Trauma-Informed School: San Diego Mission Academy
Heartache is a universal experience, yet we often feel alone. Things happen; choices are made, and before we know it, we wake up longing for change. No one grows up dreaming that they will not “fit in” to the “traditional” path, but when they find themselves on the detour route, it feels like a moving treadmill, going nowhere fast down an isolated road. “Traditional” opportunities may not have worked out, but there are alternative routes to success, now more than ever! San Diego Mission...
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Calls to eliminate school police in two San Francisco Bay districts intensify amid protests [edsource.org]
By Theresa Harrington and Ali Tadayon, EdSource, June 10, 2020 Amid calls to defund municipal police in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police, two Oakland Unified school board members are pushing to eliminate the district’s police force. This is an acceleration of a demand that dates back nine years, when activists began calling on the district to dissolve its police department after a black student was shot and killed by a district police sergeant. The proposal by board...
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Supporting Children's Development During the Pandemic [newyorker.com]
By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, July 16, 2020 Last week, President Trump declared that public schools must fully reopen in the fall, threatening to withhold federal funding if they fail to do so. But neither he nor the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, has offered guidance on how schools can safely resume classroom teaching during the coronavirus pandemic . Meanwhile, some of the largest school districts in the country, including Los Angeles and San Diego, have announced that they will...
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Rudy’s Story (learn4life.org)
Rudy’s early childhood was ordinary and happy; he enjoyed school, played sports, and had lots of friends. He always had a huge appetite for learning and was nicknamed “Speedy” by his fourth-grade teacher for his desire to finish his schoolwork before his classmates. Early on, Rudy’s home environment was solid and enjoyable. He was raised by two working class parents who taught him the importance of discipline, education, and respect. However, his father was an alcoholic and a drug addict who...
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How One District Got Its Students Back Into Classrooms [nytimes.com]
By Jenny Anderson, The New York Times, September 20, 2020 When schools shuttered in March, David Miyashiro, the superintendent of the Cajon Valley Union School District, immediately started connecting with families and teachers. During hundreds of calls, Zoom meetings and socially distanced in-person gatherings, he heard desperate pleas from poor parents torn between work and home instruction, or who needed support for high-needs students. Mr. Miyashiro vowed to reopen schools in the fall,...
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San Diego Unified School District Changes Grading System to ‘Combat Racism' (nbcsandiego.com)
Students will no longer be graded based on a yearly average, or on how late they turn in assignments. Those are just some of the major grading changes approved this week by California's second-largest school district. The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is overhauling the way it grades students. Board members say the changes are part of a larger effort to combat racism. “This is part of our honest reckoning as a school district,” says SDUSD Vice President Richard Barrera. “If we’re...
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Students work with Poway Unified to fix racism in schools (sandiegouniontribune.com)
In June teenage sisters Nene and Ekene Okolo started an Instagram account called Black in PUSD , where they invited Poway Unified students and alumni of color to share what it was like for them at school. They received 1,200 anonymous submissions, most describing racist incidents Black, Latino and Asian students had endured, including racial slurs and assumptions based on stereotypes. The Black in PUSD account helped spur an anti-racism movement in Poway Unified, which has acknowledged that...
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Make “Giving Tuesday” your day to support the work of ACEs Connection. Help us meet our matching grant goal of $50K, and your gift will be matched, dollar-for-dollar!
"This Giving Tuesday, and every day, we thank you for your support," said members of the ACEs Connection staff on a recent "all staff Zoom." L-R (top row) Laurie Udesky, Carey Sipp, Gail Kennedy, Lara Kain (second row) Cissy White, Rafael Maravilla, Donielle Prince, Jenna Quinn (third row) Ingrid Cockhren, (off camera) Alison Cebulla, Jane Stevens. Out that day, and grateful all the same, were Karen Clemmer, Dana Brown, Elizabeth Prewitt, Marianne Avari, and Samantha Sangenito Called “the...