Tagged With "growth mindset"
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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: Adaptive Schools and Trauma Informed Practices
As a district staff are trained to use the Adaptive Schools work, it is great to see how this programs is supporting a trauma informed mindset. It will be hugely beneficial for staff to see how Adaptive Schools and other strategies aren't all "stand-alone" and actually interweave to provide supports for students.
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Re: Why We Can't Afford Whitewashed Social-Emotional Learning (ascd.org)
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) defines five core SEL competencies , including (1)self-awareness, (2)social awareness, (3)self-management, (4)relationship skills, and (5)responsible decision making. The CASEL Five SEL competencies ARE NOT sufficient to achieve that which they were created to accomplish and which CASEL itself was created to accomplish. There are 6 core competencies, not five, and the 6th is the one that is by far the most important.
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Re: What do you think, is a 6th SEL core competency needed?
Corrected Thesis; ACE's Knowledge and Awareness is a POWERFUL Therapy that delivers proven effective Therapeutic Healing in and of Itself. Simply knowing of ACE's and of one's own score is healing above any therapeutic intervention currently in use, to the best of my knowledge - odd as this might sound to those whose livings are made providing such therapies - not that these are not also beneficial - but the numbers speak for themselves I think. Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris has published some...
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Educators must address the trauma students have endured these past weeks
COMMENTARY, JUNE 8, 2020, DEBRA DUARDO Nothing would come as a greater relief than to welcome back more than 2 million students to Los Angeles County schools in coming months. That’s where they belong. But when schools reopen, they will not look the same as they did before the pandemic-required shelter-in-place. Our country was a different place three months ago. Today: Protests over racial injustice have rocked the nation. Interaction with friends, neighbors and family has changed as the...
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Choose Love Movement Introduces Free SEL Wellness Program for School Reopening
The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement ™ launched a free social-emotional wellness program to support educators and students as they navigate the start of the 2020/21 school year. This special reentry unit, “Choosing Love in Our Brave New World,” is designed to help transition students back to class or to support them during distance learning. The Choose Love Movement honors six-year-old Jesse Lewis who was killed in the Sandy Hook, CT elementary school tragedy. “Choosing Love in Our Brave New...
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Empowering Resilience to ACEs
The 16 Strong Project is dedicated to empowering resilience to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) through educational workshops, school partnerships, and community outreach. 16 Strong strives to continue conversations that help young people recognize and navigate the challenges they are facing as a result of ACEs. We believe that with strong support systems, healthy coping mechanisms and a positive mindset, the negative impacts of ACEs can be mitigated.
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A Better Normal- Education Upended, Special Guest: The 16 Strong Project
I am often asked if I know of resources to educate youth about ACEs, I am excited to share with you that our next Better Normal-Education Upended will focus on just that! Join us Thursday 10/1 as we welcome our special guest Samantha Wettje from the 16 Strong Project . 16 Strong is dedicated to empowering resilience to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) through educational workshops, school partnerships, and community outreach. 16 Strong strives to continue conversations that help young...
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The Power of Virtue in Trauma-Informed Education
Though we cannot fix or heal them, we likely do not even know who many of them are, we can empower them emotionally towards the possibility of their own potential.
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Re: The Power of Virtue in Trauma-Informed Education
Great post, Tami. Thank you for sharing your story. Embracing our true, virtuous selves helps us heal and grow as individuals and a whole.
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Can Children Learn Nonviolent Communication?
We all know that children, especially when young, tend to be very open-minded and non-judgmental. It is during childhood that we should be teaching children how to express their needs by giving them a full vocabulary.
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Trauma-Informed Education: Suburbancares Partners with Public, Parochial and Private Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria to Build Trauma-Informed Community
Suburban Healthcare Initiative (DBA, Suburbancares) has provided several training sessions and workshops in child trauma and child behavioral health awareness in several States in south-west Nigeria since 2009. The awareness campaign was started in response to the invitation by Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo who was Principal of the Corona Secondary School, Agbara at the time. Dr. Bukola Ogunkua, CEO Suburbancares and a child trauma expert with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress...
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Teaching with purpose: ACEs aware, healing-informed.
Listening to the voices from current classrooms, the social-emotional needs that students are coming into classrooms are intense and demonstrate the importance of additional commitments for well-being and self-care. Schools and communities must recognize that teachers have ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) too. Similarly, they enter the profession as “wounded healers," being charged with filling needy hearts with hope. The levels of toxic stress and compassion fatigue are increasing...
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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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Re: Shootings & Suicides Past the Tipping-Point: ACEs Epidemic & Declining Lifespans in US
No PhD required- Anyone can easily Discern the TRUTH using only a Dictionary: "To pursue a policy of NATURAL IMMUNITY against a Deadly Epidemic is the literal definition of Genocide!" * University Students are even now being used as the modern version of SMALLPOX-BLANKETS! * Google the three words "Corcoran, Hillsdale College" to hear the head of education in FL under Gov. Desantis equate teaching of CRT with support of ANTIFA. At 33 minutes hear the very definition of bigotry & racism,...
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Now is the Time for Community Schools for All
Community schools have been an effective school improvement strategy for over a century, implemented in both urban and rural areas across the country -- yet many people have never heard of this dynamic approach to school design. Whole districts have invested in this model over the past several decades, from Oakland to New York City, from Duluth, Minnesota to Tulsa, Oklahoma. California recently approved $2.8 billion in the 2022 fiscal year budget for the implementation of community schools...
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Humanizing school environments
Often, we are confronted with dehumanizing practices in education settings -- practices that cause trauma, induce shame, and contribute to the adversity that many children and adults already face. Practices that push us away from our better selves, and strip others of their dignity and humanity. Practices and institutions that punish, harm, exclude, degrade, dismiss, disrespect, and disregard. Educators and students alike have experienced being dehumanized in their school environments at...
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The 'absolutely essential' role of Black counselors on campus [edsource.org]
By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, November 8, 2021 A mid calls for schools to diversify their teaching staffs, some are saying those efforts should extend beyond the classroom — to the counseling office. The needs of Black students, advocates argue, are too often overlooked by non-Black middle and high school counselors. Black students are more likely to be placed in classes that don’t prepare them for college or a career, subject to harsher discipline and less likely to have their mental health...
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3 case studies utilizing trauma-informed technology for school resilience
3 case studies utilizing adaptive tech to improve school resilience, featuring Dr. Martin Eaton (CA Schools), Ruth Schoonover (SC Schools), and Colin Bauer (SC Schools)
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Helping K-12 educators support students who have experienced trauma
Of the approximately 74 million youth under age 18 in the US, two-thirds have experienced a potentially traumatic event by age 16 . Traumatic experiences can impact a child's ability to learn and have lasting adverse effects on mental and physical well being. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an already urgent need for more trauma-informed support for students and their families. Recognizing the need for schools to better identify and support students who have experienced traumatic events,...
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“Lead with love, disrupt the system, and fight like hell!” Join Lara Kain, PACEs Connection Education Consultant, Thursday on History. Culture. Trauma.
“Sometimes we need to be reminded that we are a powerful movement, and collectively we are making a difference,” says Lara Kain, PACEs Connection education consultant. She joins this week’s History. Culture. Trauma. podcast with fellow educators and hosts, PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren, and director of communities, Mathew Portell. Cockhren and Portell are focused on the start of the 2022-2023 school year, and welcome colleague Kain o n Thursday, August 25 at 1 p.m. PT, 4 p.m. ET, when...
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SCRR | The School Crisis Recovery and Renewal Project
School-Based Suicide Postvention from a Liberated Lens: A Community of Practice Starting October 20th School-Based Suicide Postvention from a Liberated Lens: A Community of Practice A collaborative and conversational space to build the field’s capacity to hold ourselves and each other after death by suicide in our school communities with equity and liberation at the forefront. October 20, 2022, January 19, 2023, March 2, 2023, and May 4, 2023 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. - 3:00...
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The 2023 Creating Resilient Communities Summer Curriculum is Now Open for Registration
PACEs Connection is excited to roll out our summer 2023 *CRC* curriculum dates. Members who complete the CRC will qualify for a fall 2023 fellowship program.
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Early Relational Health Innovators Partner In Program Supported by PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities Members in Twelve California Counties
Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principal author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...