One student at Boca Raton Community High School has created a new student group called "We Dine Together" so that no student has to eat alone at lunch. Denis Estimon immigrated to the U.S. from Port-au-Prince , Haiti, when he was in the first grade. "There was a language barrier ... and my mom was always working and my father was still in Haiti at the time so I wasn't able to talk to anybody," Estimon told ABC News. "I felt isolated. I felt lonely. And so I still remember how I felt not...

SEATTLE — The Road Map Project’s latest report on the state of education in King County’s areas of highest need shows some progress, but much more work needs to be done to close race and ethnic opportunity and achievement gaps. The project focuses on students in South King County and South Seattle, where 92 percent of the county’s high-poverty schools are concentrated and where the homeless student population has more than doubled from 2,000 to 4,500 since the project began in 2010. As the...

Use these novesl to teach learning from loss and overcoming adversity to your middle schoolers and high school freshmen. [For more of this story by Robert Ward, go to https://www.edutopia.org/article/young-adult-novels-teach-growth-mindset-robert-ward?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow]

Via email from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Learn what students said about themselves, their school, family and community Be able to interpret and communicate the HYS results Learn how to use the HYS website and access your HYS data The training will include small group activities, to make these activities worth your while, please bring your laptop in order to access your HYS data. Consider bringing a colleague to enhance your learning and action planning.

This training is appropriate for anyone who is interested in learning about suicide prevention in schools, healthcare, and community settings. When: Wednesday May 10 th , 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Where: Yakima Convention Center 10 N 8 th Street, Room 400, South Ballroom, Yakima, WA 98901 Cost: $35 and provides educational clock hours for educators and continuing education hours for social workers. Lunch will be provided Register: https://amsr_with_ospi_5-10-17.eventbrite.com See attached flyer.

Lincoln Alternative High School is in the small city of Walla Walla in southeastern Washington. It had been a place for students with disciplinary issues, those removed from the area’s other high schools, ordered there by a judge, or those who had performed poorly in middle school. Tucked in the middle of a residential neighborhood, Lincoln’s brick edifice and cherry-red doors now serve as a place of opportunity for many students. At Lincoln, the first trauma-informed high school in the...

Cross Agency Initiatives Essentials for Childhood: Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships & Environments for Children - Essentials for Childhood Washington State -- www.doh.wa.gov/efc - Essentials for Childhood - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/childmaltreatment/essentials/index.html Washington State Frontiers of Innovation - http://www.wafoi.org/ Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University – Frontiers of Innovation...

Over the last four calendar school years the number of students being suspended by Battle Ground High School has dropped more than 50 percent. During the 2012-13 school year 387 students were suspended, compared to only 145 during the 2015-16 school year. BGHS Principal Mike Hamilton points at a number of different elements that has led to a more positive culture in the high school. He said it is a product of all the district cogs operating in unison and making student engagement and...

Students at JLA are reminded that change starts with themselves In 2004, after nearly a decade as program director at Jubilee Leadership Academy (JLA), a Christian alternative boarding school for troubled boys ages 13-18 in Prescott, WA, Rick Griffin decided to take a job in Phoenix, AZ, to work with adults with developmental disabilities. There, he began to see similarities between the issues they were having and what he saw in the kids at JLA. “There was a cognitive reason these adults I...

Kindergarten teacher Erica Nunemaker ripped down the clip chart she used for behavior management in her classroom. Children moved their clip up for good behavior and down for bad behavior. Nunemaker realized the same students were moving down every day. The clip was a public display of the student’s failure, and children weren’t learning how to fix their behavior. “I’ve noticed that a lot of times we discipline them and tell them that’s not right ... but then we don’t give them a solution to...