Director of Student and Family Services @pkyongedrs, mama, wife, EdD @UF_COE, passionate about student agency, inclusion, SEL, and restorative practices
You don’t have to power through it. Take time to grieve, heal, and breathe.
Trying to rush to the other side only deepens the wound and delays your healing. #breathe
”America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” Frederick Douglass's speech offers an annual call to confront past and present injustices—and to demand liberation for all as a fact, not an ideal.
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Join us! We're hiring a K-12 School Psychologist: https://t.co/Ecy6148jMs
P.K. Yonge is a future-oriented school that serves a diverse student population and is committed to faculty growth.
Hear from our faculty: https://t.co/K4S0ixkqjS
As more schools return to in-person learning in the coming months, there will rightly be pushes for trauma-informed practices to meet the moment. Without first reflecting on how schools themselves cause and exacerbate trauma, these efforts can fall flat.
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Join us! We're hiring a High School Critical Thinking & Learning Strategies instructor: https://t.co/FjRFZP2qlK
P.K. Yonge is a future-oriented school that serves a diverse student population and is committed to faculty growth.
Hear from our faculty: https://t.co/K4S0ixkqjS
A thread of #MLK speeches and sermons in which he speaks truth to power, shares about his philosophy of nonviolence, and expounds on issues of injustice and what our righteous, rigorous response should be. Relevant. Revelatory. Revolutionary. #MLKDay#BelovedCommunity
I’m hearing from many parents about how teachers are performing heroically in difficult and scary times to provide comfort, humor, empathy, and instruction. Teachers are always superheroes. Now they seem to have even another gear of awesomeness. They are the best of #WhatUnitesUs
“supporting educators, providing full funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and promoting a strong focus on equity that includes promoting inclusion and diversity, especially for those impacted by systemic racism.” https://t.co/1tLSgookGg
Students and families need support in public schools so students can access the academic program. More counselors and nurses will be such a great help! 🙌🏽
We are going to fight for educators and students.
That means hiring more counselors and school nurses.
That means paying educators what they're worth.
That means protecting the right to organize.
“Although it’s commonplace, especially around November, we really can’t talk about America’s history without looking at the stories of an estimated population of 60 million people living on the land we now call home.” https://t.co/cYySqqVeEc