San Diego Unified School District’s Office of Children and Youth in Transition will be sponsoring a community event screening of the movie Paper Tigers at Lincoln High School on Wednesday, April 27. Please join us for the movie, as well as a resource fair and student panel. Food will be available for purchase and all proceeds will go to Lincoln High School’s class of 2016. Event information is available in this .
4:30 p.m. Resource Fair
5:30 p.m. Student Panel (The Unheard Voice of Lincoln)
5:40: Film Screening
It is here, at the crossroads of at-risk teens and trauma-informed care, that Paper Tigers takes root. Set within and around the campus of Lincoln Alternative High School in the rural community of Walla Walla, Washington, Paper Tigers asks the following questions: What does it mean to be a trauma-informed school? And how do you educate teens whose childhood experiences have left them with a brain and body ill-suited to learn?
In search of clear and honest answers, Paper Tigers hinges on a remarkable collaboration between subject and filmmaker. Armed with their own cameras and their own voices, the teens of Paper Tigers offer raw but valuable insight into the hearts and minds of teens pushing back against the specter of a hard childhood.
Against the harsh reality of truancy, poor grades, emotional pain, and physical violence, answers begin to emerge. The answers do not come easily. Nor can one simply deduce a one-size-fits-all solution to a trauma-informed education. But there is no denying something both subtle and powerful at work between teacher and student alike: the quiet persistence of love.
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