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The New York Times editorial board composed a new piece lamenting the damage that COVID-19 school closures have done to children. Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images © Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images To read more of Gabriel Hays article, click here, NY Times says school COVID closures may be ‘most damaging disruption’ to kids’ education in U.S. history (msn.com) . The New York Times editorial board penned a new editorial on Saturday stating that the school closures enacted in...

A student raises their hand in a classroom Photo: Shutterstock To read more of Daniel Villareal's article, please click here. Vermont’s largest school district, the Champlain Valley School District, has passed a set of policies that affirm transgender and nonbinary students’ identities. The policies require schools to let trans students access school facilities, play on sports teams, and use pronouns and names that match their gender identity without informing potentially unsupportive...

To listen to the Podcast, please click here. What if one person could shift your story? One person who sees you, hears you, and is genuinely interested in helping you overcome the obstacles life has thrown at you. In this episode, my incredibly humble friend, Staci Roth, is that person in so many lives. From being an educator at Learn4Life, to creating the HOPE Program providing education and resources for teenage parents, to becoming a Trauma- Resilient Professional and Coordinator of the...

To read more of Bill Gates' article, please click here. Do you know how to calculate the volume of a prism? What about a pyramid? And what does either have to do with movie theater popcorn? Back in April, I spent the day at Chula Vista Middle School in Southern California learning what these questions have to do with graduating from college. I was there to meet with school and district leaders and join an eighth-grade math class taught by a remarkable teacher named Amilcar Fernandez, who...

Suspensions for ‘willful defiance’ hurt children, who lose critical instruction time. Photograph: Bsip Sa/Alamy To read more of Edwin Rios' article, please click here. At least 25 states and the District of Columbia allow schools to suspend students for “willful defiance”, according to the LawAtlas Project’s Policy Surveillance Portal . This week, California became the first state in the US to ban such suspensions for all students, expanding a pre-existing ban on the disciplinary practice...

Presented by Clifford Beers Community Care Center, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and KPJR Films, Healing the Generations is a two-day conference which brings together trauma-informed authors, leaders, and changemakers whose work focuses on resilience, trauma, and anti-racism. REGISTER HERE Collectively, we recognize the health implications that grief, loss, political unrest, and racial trauma have on the human body. We are convinced that in our families, communities, and ancestors,...

Emotion has an enormous impact on imprinting memory in our brains. I had an experience when I was 6 years old that included emotion and I have the memory of it all of these many years later. It was a 6 year old birthday sleepover party. There were 7 girls invited that lived near each other and played together most days. A girl new to the neighborhood was invited only due to the requirement of the birthday girl’s mother. I was also invited. I lived a block away but did play with these girls...

To listen to the Podcast, please click here. What if one person could shift your story? One person who sees you, hears you, and is genuinely interested in helping you overcome the obstacles life has thrown at you. In this episode, my incredibly humble friend, Staci Roth, is that person in so many lives. From being an educator at Learn4Life, to creating the HOPE Program providing education and resources for teenage parents, to becoming a Trauma- Resilient Professional and Coordinator of the...

Back to School with PACEs Connection: Creating Positive Childhood Environmental Experiences in the Classroom Every aspect of someone’s environment will impact how they live, learn, play, and grow. Those under the age of 18 in traditional learning models will spend the majority of their time in a school setting, where the environment itself lays the foundation for their development. Creating positive childhood experiences in schools and the classroom has a profound impact on students'...

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...

There's a lot of evidence that schools and students are more violent places after the pandemic. GETTY IMAGES To read more of F. Chris Curran and the Conversation's article, please click here. The 2022-23 school year was a particularly violent year for educators . Recent headlines suggest the 2023-24 school year may not be much different. Such violence at school disrupts teaching and learning and has elicited calls to reform school discipline policies . As a policy researcher who studies...

students doing homework in classroom. PHOTO: GETTY To read more of Abigail Adams article, please click here. Teachers have been using TikTok to increase awareness about the realities of the modern classroom for the last few years. Now, the spotlight is on how fast students are falling behind. In one viral video, posted Sept. 19, an Atlanta area teacher suggested that many of his seventh grade students are performing at a fourth grade level — and some are performing at level even lower than...