Community Resilience Building

Has the pandemic stressed you out? Want to learn the self-soothing skills of Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience directly from the author, Dr. Carolyn Curtis? Good news! The Dibble Institute has received generous funding for scholarships to the online, full 12-lesson series, Mind Matters Now . The course helps teachers, social workers, medical professionals, and others manage their stress by building resilience skills and practices for mental well-being. (CEUs are...

“Education rehabilitation,” said Fitz Hill, Jones’ predecessor as president of Arkansas Baptist, 2006-16. “That’s what we do. “Rarely do we get a student from a recruitment fair. We get students because of a teacher, a pastor, a coach, a counselor or a parole officer.” Despite its roller-coaster financial track record, Arkansas Baptist maintains loyal boosters from the local business community. Bill Dillard III, senior vice president at Dillard’s Inc., has been a supporter of Arkansas...

Thursday, November 1 at 6 p.m. (Ron Robinson Theater) *In partnership with Arkansas Education Association Arkansas’s 2019 Teacher of the Year Stacey James McAdoo’s Rozzell Lecture will highlight her award-winning activities in the classroom, sharing her philosophy of teaching through art to engage students and help them find their passion. McAdoo will share the stage with some of her students for a poetry performance. McAdoo is a writer, educator, and an advocate of literacy. She has...