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All pupils will be taught about mental and physical wellbeing (gov.uk)
It's a start. Clearly many children do not grow up in households where this information is known and understood and healthy patterns hold. I believe we still have a way to go including ACEs and that emotional health is key. All children in England will be taught how to look after their mental wellbeing and recognise when classmates may be struggling, as the Government unveils new guidance for the introduction of compulsory health education. Bold new plans set out today (Monday 25 February)...
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How COVID-19 Impacts Children’s Mental Health
Mental health among children and youth is already a concern. In 2018, there were 41,087 hospital discharges for mental health issues among California youth ages 5-19, a 38% increase in the last decade . With the emergence of COVID-19, children with existing mental health issues must endure the added burden of a pandemic. Children often rely on schools to provide mental health services, but school closures have made it difficult to access and preserve the quality of these services. Historical...
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Schools' role in tackling bad childhood experiences [BBC.com]
As a teenager he was sleeping in a park and trying to wash his clothes in a river so he would be clean for school. Matthew Cox was one of too many children who did not get adequate help soon enough, Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe has said. She wants the education system and agencies working closer on adverse childhood experiences (ACE). Mr Cox, now 22, works in a call centre and dreams of starting his own landscape gardening company. It is an amazing turnaround for a man who...
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Schools' role in tackling bad childhood experiences [BBC.com]
As a teenager he was sleeping in a park and trying to wash his clothes in a river so he would be clean for school. Matthew Cox was one of too many children who did not get adequate help soon enough, Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe has said. She wants the education system and agencies working closer on adverse childhood experiences (ACE). Mr Cox, now 22, works in a call centre and dreams of starting his own landscape gardening company. It is an amazing turnaround for a man who...
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'Teach children about their human rights in schools' [bbc.com]
When a Swansea primary school began to teach pupils about their human rights, several children told teachers they did not feel safe at home. Rachael Webb, headmistress of Hafod Primary school, said it led to the involvement of the authorities. "It does make children think about how they should be treated," she said. [For more on this story, go to https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-47031262 ]
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The Art of Control ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES TO ENHANCE EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IN YOUNG CHILDREN
Executive function — our ability to remember and use what we know, defeat our unproductive impulses, and switch gears and adjust to new demands — is increasingly understood as a key element not just of learning but of lifelong...
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Mindfulness and Meditation to Become Part of the Curriculum in 370 Schools in England (brightvibes.com)
In 370 schools across England, children will be taught how to meditate, techniques for muscle relaxation, and breathing exercises for mindfulness. The program is being conducted under a mental health study that the British government is running up until 2021. Aside from the increasing number of young children that are showing signs of early onset depression and anxiety , National Health Service (NHS) reports have also indicated that 1-in-8 British children have mental disorders. Despite...
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MindUP UK [4 min]
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Mental Health in Finnish Schools: So Close to Perfection [thelancet.com]
By Cassandra Coburn, The Lancet, August 30, 2019 Finland's educational system is routinely praised as among the best in the world, achieving superb results through methods regarded by other scholastic systems as unorthodox. Among the differences that single it out for praise is the delayed start to education, with compulsory schooling beginning with a pre-primary education for children at 6 years old, and full-time schooling only starting at age 7. In contrast to the battery of tests faced...
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Resource list -- Practices & Frameworks
All of these practices and frameworks are -- or should be -- informed by the new knowledge about the unified science of human development, aka ACEs writ large, or NEAR science. This encompasses the epidemiology of adverse childhood experiences (ACE studies), the neurobiology of toxic stress, the biomedical and epigenetic consequences of toxic stress, and resilience research. Frameworks and Models Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC) Source: The Trauma Center at the...
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Re: Amplifying empathy in teachers can help prevent student suspensions, researchers find
As a teacher, when I read that we need to "humanize" the children in our class and see if they perform better, I am truly disturbed. No adult should be allowed in a class or on a court or field if they do not have a profound knowledge that their "clients" are humans and more importantly are children. Kids lack knowledge and power so they are the ultimate victims. If systems are not in place to protect them, they are at the mercy of teachers who fail to recognize their fragile humanity. We...
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Re: Amplifying empathy in teachers can help prevent student suspensions, researchers find
The key is to hold adults who "teach" bullying accountable and then worry about laws for children. Right now in US and Canada, emotional abuse (ie adult bullying) is fine; there are no laws, no deterrents, nothing that stops it and if there is, it's chaotic, lacks federal sanction, is random. Adult bullying of children is rampant in sports for example and nothing is done about it. The UK has changed this by recently making emotional abuse criminal. Can't happen soon enough in US and Canada.
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Re: Diverting the School to Prison Pipeline Through School Connectedness
Thank you. Kids with disabilities are also disproportionately in the school to prison pipeline. It is time that there is recognition of the importance social-emotional education and competency plays in success in all other areas of education - and that all teaches need basic education and competencies so they can support all children. Your blog made me think about an article I came across recently about UK instituting mandatory lessons in "relationship education" beginning in primary grades...
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Re: Teaching Kids To Bounce Back at 'Last-Chance High' [KPLU.org]
This is important work...but I think we can do better. What we must do is stop treating the symptoms and instead tackle the abusers. If there were people out in the world infecting people with cancer---like we saw with smokers---they would be legally shut down. Why can't we do the same with abusive adults? Where are the laws that hold caregivers financially and criminally responsible for harming children? Long overdue. Let's put emotional abuse and negligence in the criminal code like the UK...
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Re: How are schools incorporating trauma informed practices, if they are at all?
Leisa - as someone who is trying to introduce trauma-informed practice to a school here in the UK, I found your post incredibly helpful in its detail and I shall be thinking further on the issues and solutions you've posited. What resonated with me most in your comments was the importance of adding an intake survey, which I am pressing to be added to our pre-admissions assessment process. I am in the currently constructing something along those lines, and I would be very interested in seeing...
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Trauma Informed Care -- Workforce training framework
A colleague of mine -- here in New Zealand!! -- recently passed the attached PDF, from Scotland, onto me. It concerns a relatively recent, and still developing, proposed trauma training framework. This might be helpful to others wishing to go further in introducing TIC in their own services. It includes a consideration of ACEs. Naturally, it needs to incorporate culture-specific additions or modifications to suit your local conditions. The document as it is likely has broad application.
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Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast
There are now 10 episodes on the Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast. The most recent was with Kat Stern in the UK who is currently working on developing and researching a trauma-informed method being used with incarcerated youth in the UK. Her knowledge is equally as captivating as per passion. Previous episodes included interviews with Dr. Bruce Perry, Ingrid Cochren, and Dr. Lori Desautels amongst others. You can now access the podcast from many different platforms! (SoundCloud,...
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3RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL RESILIENCE CONFERENCE
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Re: Seeking Community input on the ACEs in Education community
I'm based in Liverpool, UK but really find this community helpful, hoping to visit San Francisco and New York this August and keen to connect to groups to gain understanding that I can bring back to UK.
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Re: State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds [HeschingerReport.com]
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Leann Huntley
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Our Back To School Edition with RESILIENCE and Play! [kpjrfilms.co]
Our Back To School Edition With RESILIENCE and Play! RESILIENCE on Video On Demand RESILIENCE is now available for streaming directly to individual viewers on Apple TV, Google Play and Vudu. Since its premiere in 2016 at the Sundance Film festival, RESILIENCE has been screened globally, in educational settings, more than 50,000 times. In partnership with many educational, health care, juvenile justice and non-profit organizations, RESILIENCE and Paper Tigers has increased the awareness of...
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