Tagged With "California Education Code"
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Re: Trauma Training For Educators (Free)
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Re: Charter movement hits districts in the wallet (ocregister.com)
But they get to chuck most of the state’s cumbersome Education Code (except for such things as anti-discrimination statutes), allowing the flexibility that advances innovation. I guess I am confused why they would allow Charters more flexibility to advance innovation than they would public schools. That would seem not to be a level playing field from inception. I can only hope that the outcomes for students enrolled is better there than the outcomes for students at charters in Detroit has...
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Re: Preparing teachers to personalize their classrooms (edsource.org)
. "Personalized Learning" sounds good, but the term is code -- in education contexts "personalized learning" is code for technological data mining and exploiting children as profit nuggets by machines for large businesses. It is part of the philosophy that the 'free market' is right "market" for public education. "Personalized Learning" reduces human contact and social relationships, most hurtfully there is less time and less learning with a human teacher. The concept proposes a trade of...
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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: 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: California's First Surgeon General: Screen Every Student for Childhood Trauma [nbcnews.com]
MN has required developmental screening for all 3-4-year-olds that is funded through the State, and implemented at the local level by the school districts, who utilize an interdisciplinary team of health care and educators. I have often thought that we could leverage this existing practice to better understand which children have experienced childhood trauma. This would give the receiving schools an opportunity to look at incoming classes of Kindergartners and better prepare their staff and...
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Trauma Informed Education
We have finally completed our one day seminar on trauma informed education. We will be in Los Angeles in February, New York in early March and Michigan in April. We have attached brochures for each of these presentations Hope to see you there!
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Trauma Informed Education
I am up in New York this week doing trauma informed education training for PESI. If anyone is interested in hanging out and sharing ideas I will be in white plains on wednesday, plainview on thursday and in Manhattan on thursday evening/friday. See attached brochure
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Trauma-Informed Lens Podcast: Interview with Dr. Eric Rossen
In this episode, Matt discusses trauma-sensitive education with Dr. Eric Rossen. Eric Rossen, PhD, NCSP, is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, a licensed psychologist in Maryland, and a credentialed National Register Health Service psychologist. He currently serves as the director of professional development and standards for the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). Dr. Rossen has worked in public schools and in independent practice and has served as a college...
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Two Years After Hurricane Harvey, Educators Are Using Lessons Learned [forbes.com]
By Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, August 29, 2019 In times of emergency, children are always the most vulnerable. Hurricane Harvey was no exception. Four days after the slow-moving Category 4 storm made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, on August 25, 2017, heavy rainfall and winds up to 130 miles per hour had caused billions of dollars in damage and left approximately 13 million people — including 3 million children — in Texas and Louisiana reeling in its wake. "Trauma is trauma regardless of...
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We need to prepare for the mental health impact of coronavirus on kids [latimes.com]
By Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2020 Four-year-olds have playdates through closed windows, sliding their toy cars in unison on either side of the glass. A high school student worries about his mother going to work in a food-packing warehouse, at risk for contracting COVID-19. Another teen says “there is nothing to look forward to,” as he tries to avoid sliding into depression. Worried parents are calling school district hotlines seeking help for their troubled children. Experts...
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What Happens When Schools Close for the Academic Year? tcpress.com]
By Karen Gross, Teachers College Press, March 20, 2020 Just as we are hearing about positive research efforts to combat the coronavirus in the relative near term, we are learning that some statewide school systems may stay closed through the end of the 2019–2020 school year. As of this writing, one state—Kansas—has affirmatively closed all its schools until the next academic year. Other states will likely follow in the coming days, including California, Arizona and Texas. The critical...
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Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color (theatlantic.com)
Brighton Park is a predominantly Latino community on the southwest side of Chicago. It's a neighborhood threatened by poverty, gang violence , ICE raids , and isolation in a city where income, race, and zip code can determine access to jobs, schools, healthy food, and essential services. It is against this backdrop that the Chicago teacher Xian Franzinger Barrett arrived at the neighborhood's elementary school in 2014. Recognizing the vast economic and racial inequalities his students faced,...
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Trauma informed Classroom for Deaf students
Recently, I attended an IEP for a primary age Deaf child whose 'back to school' weeks have come from Hell. I'm both an adult with disAbilities and a long time teacher (both general and special education) - 44 years. It was as though the school knew nothing about trauma and even less about what it's like to live with trauma from having a disability. Child had gotten a new teacher this year. This child, like other kids born deaf to hearing parents, lived thru several years without language...
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Re: The Focus Room: A Calming, Welcoming Space to Restore Receptivity and Readiness to Learn
Thank you for expressing your interest Sara. Please see the two attached documents. We primarily focus on helping students reflect on their needs and their behavior, while helping them to also consider the needs of their fellow students, community members, and the learning environment in general. Please let us know if you would like more information. Thank you!
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Re: California may start next school year sooner if coronavirus is under control [sfchronicle.com]
This could be problematic. I am sure that parents and the public in general will love the idea. But it assumes that teachers, staff and administration have not been working since the closure began. For most of us, this has meant longer hours and more challenging and frustrating work. The teachers especially will need a break. If they don't get one, we will have numerous issues with staff. Furthermore, teachers in California are not 12 month employees. Those who receive 12 month checks do so...
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Re: Trauma-Informed Practice Is a Powerful Tool. But It's Also Incomplete [edweek.org]
Simona and Debbie (and Raphael), Thank you so much for your courageous articulation about the missing component around trauma informed practices. Our work around creating and maintaining hopeful cultures has shown us the need to be careful that our well-founded intentions in understanding trauma doesn't result in the unintended consequences of defining our children by their trauma rather than by their hope. As you well know this is exactly what happened when we began to focus on "risk"...
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Re: No More 'At-Risk' Students in California [insidehighered.com]
I am so glad to see this! we have some more work to do. The most stigmatizing language we use is in Special Education: Special Day Classes; Mild Moderate and Moderate Severe.... I am not sure what they mean? I would love to work with others to shift this to more of a Growth Mindset!
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Re: It's time for teachers to look after their mental health – here's how [TheGuardian.com]
Great post and excellent advice, however, as I teacher, I think there's a bigger issue at play and it isn't about individual mental health, but rather the school system and its culture. I don't find teaching exhausting; I find the bullying culture in which teaching sometimes occurs hard to handle. Especially in the private schools, there is a pressure to keep the brand first and foremost even if that means sweeping abuse issues under the carpet. This is immensely taxing on teacher mental...
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The Traumatic Impact of Racism on Young People and How to Talk About It [Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg]
Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg (Keynote speaker from the recent Creating a Resilient Community Conference) shared the excerpt from his book Reaching Teens titled The Traumatic Impact of Racism on Young People and How to Talk About It. This is a valuable resource for anyone interacting with youth and we are providing the excerpt as an attachment here for you to read and share. Also, Dr. Ginsburg will be coming back to our community (virtually) and you’ll be invited to his workshop. Look out for the...
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A Zoom Course on How to Create Trauma Responsive Institutions
I am teaching at three hour affordable Zoom course at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work on how to create trauma response schools, organizations and businesses. It is July 31 and it is easy to enroll and you get a discount code for my new book (which ties in) titled: Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door (just released from Teachers College Press, June 2020). Here's a link to the course: https://ssw-web.rutgers.edu/ssw/ce/index.php?m=catalog&f=4 I cannot think of a time in which we...
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Resource List -- Guides & Toolkits
Guides & toolkits for creating trauma-informed (aka trauma-sensitive) schools. If you recommend any others besides those listed here, please leave a comment in this blog post with a link and/or information.
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The Nine Facets of a Comprehensive Trauma-Informed School Organization
In this article, the author makes the case that school organizations need to adopt a universal precaution approach for addressing trauma, and the systemic changes required to do so. With this approach, every adult has the potential for a positive impact on each child in his or her care. (The entire PDF document is attached and can be downloaded.)
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Why Equity Matters in Trauma Sensitive School Work
Trauma Sensitive School practice has gained momentum in the last several years, inspiring changes in educator perspective, administrative policy, and classroom practice. I am often inspired by efforts to understand student challenges in new ways and use innovative strategies. What can give me pause is when this work is applied to institutions or systems where structural bias and inequity are not acknowledged or confronted. In this case, sometimes labels like “trauma kids” or “high-trauma...
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More Than Reduced Police Presence: Schools Must Commit to Implementing Restorative Justice [law.com]
By Thalia Gonzalez and Rebecca Epstein, The National Law Journal, July 9, 2020 In this historic moment, cities across the nation are recognizing the damage caused by police presence in schools. From disproportionate action in response to small offenses, to police involvement in tantrums and dress code violations, officers militarize school environments in ways that harm all students, but especially students of color. In New York City, the schools chancellor recently announced that police...
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Alternative schools' 'relentless' fight to keep track of students during pandemic [edsource.org]
By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, August 6, 2020 When Amistad continuation high school closed its campus in March due to the pandemic, the staff went into overdrive to stay in touch with students. They called all 205. If a student’s phone was disconnected, they went to the student’s house. If no one answered, they asked neighbors. “The effort was relentless,” said David Gustafson, principal of the public school in Indio, near Palm Springs, that serves students who’ve been expelled or are at risk...
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Trauma is 'Written Into Our Bodies' - but Educators Can Help [edutopia.org]
By Stephen Merrill, Edutopia, September 11, 2020 Some of the first adorable patients to trickle into Dr. Nadine Burke Harris’s pediatric clinic when it opened in 2007—long before she was named the first surgeon general of California—were referred by teachers and principals. Sitting in her examination rooms back then, in one of San Francisco’s poorest neighborhoods, Burke Harris knew almost immediately that something was amiss. Her young patients arrived with tentative diagnoses of...
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New Resource: Strategies for Trauma-Informed School Communities
The California Essentials for Childhood Initiative is excited to share a newly developed attached, “Strategies for Trauma-Informed School Communities: Practices to Improve Resiliency in School-Aged Children and Address Adverse Childhood Experiences”. This new resource is intended to assist state and local public health programs, child-serving systems, non-profits, and philanthropic organizations in their efforts to educate about the need for trauma-informed school policies and practices that...
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New Resource: Strategies for Trauma-Informed School Communities
The California Essentials for Childhood Initiative is excited to share a newly developed attached, “Strategies for Trauma-Informed School Communities: Practices to Improve Resiliency in School-Aged Children and Address Adverse Childhood Experiences”. This new resource is intended to assist state and local public health programs, child-serving systems, non-profits, and philanthropic organizations in their efforts to educate about the need for trauma-informed school policies and practices that...
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Re: Unlearning the Triune (3-part) Model of the Brain - It's a Myth?!
Mike - Thank you for the kind and supportive approach to sharing your thoughts. Your compassionate response was encouraging. There are two quotes that come to mind. “All models are wrong, but some are helpful” and “Variation is the norm!” So, I say this in the spirit of those two quotes. The same events that are helpful for some, are harmful for others and vice versa. That is the reality of variation in the human experience. The triune brain model can be helpful to many, and it has been...
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Building a Restorative Restart to School in the Fall
As we look towards the reopening of in-person instruction in the fall, planning and reimagining for a restorative restart to our school systems that emphasizes student and educator mental health is a priority. In addition, there is a windfall of one-time funding coming to districts from federal and local funds for just this purpose. Recently a wise educator said to me, ‘you know, if you want to get to the hearts and minds of school leaders to make changes for the fall you need to do so by...
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Educators share strategies to help students, staff heal from pandemic trauma
The stress, fear, grief and loneliness of the pandemic has weighed hard on school-aged children. A teacher, a parent and a school administrator offer strategies for moving beyond loss to healing.
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All Children Thriving: A New Purpose for Education [aft.org]
By Pamela Cantor, The American Federation of Teachers,, Fall 2021 E ducation has long been central to the promise of the United States of America. But our current education system has never been designed to promote the equitable opportunities or outcomes that our children and families deserve and that our democracy, society, and economy now need. The people who built the education system in the 19th and 20th centuries believed that talent and skills were scarce. They trusted averages as...