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Trauma is Messy

Jon Eppley ·
I will always remember the day that, as a student teacher, I watched as a student entered my second-grade room covered in blood. After quickly establishing that he was not injured, we learned that the blood was that of his brother who had been shot the night before. No parents were around that night, so this second grader became the sole caregiver of his bleeding brother. My student would never be the same. We didn’t care about grades or test scores. We just knew that this moment would...
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Re: Trauma is Messy

Jill Haire ·
This is awesome. True empathy coupled with action!
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Re: Trauma is Messy

Mary L. Holden ·
Mr. Eppley, thank you. This text made my heart swell with gratitude for people like you: "... this story is redemptive, and some seeds fall on good soil, producing a crop that yields many times over what has been sown into it. This paraphrase of a sacred text speaks to education today, specifically dealing with students who have experienced early trauma."
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PJI Youth Academy Offers Opportunity for High Schoolers to Learn About Social Justice [Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College]

Kelsey Visser ·
PJI Youth Academy - Starts August 2nd - Grades 9 -12 Parents asked for it and the Peace and Justice Institute (PJI) responded. A new PJI Youth Academy – Social Justice Series for Central Florida youth in 9th-12th grades will be offered online Monday, August 3, Wednesday, 5 and Friday, August 7, beginning with an orientation on Sunday, August 2, 2020. Do you know any young people, maybe your own, who want an energizing, “not-like-school” summer experience hosted by the PJI? In this program,...
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