When will we realize that creating safe & caring home/school environments & teaching social & emotional learning can dramatically reduce the mental health challenges youth (&adults) are facing? @YaleEmotion @rulerapproach @caselorg https://t.co/0DeTWe82fN
Sunday thought: Making the lives of others better doesn’t mean taking something away from you. In a healthy society, it’s understood that we all rise together.
A1: I try to show them how grateful I am to be working with them by smiling, sharing, thanking them, and praising the work and the effort. I try to model kindness and grace. I continually thank our families for sharing their children with us. #LeadLAP
New teachers need the entire school community to embrace them. If they don’t have a sense of belonging early on, the chances of them staying in the profession begin to decrease.
Check on them.
Encourage them.
Validate them.
Help them learn from failure. Celebrate success.
@RichardEngel Sending you so much love. Thank you for sharing your beautiful Henry with the world. May you be comforted by the love that is surrounding you. All the good that you and your wife have done and will continue to do in the world are a tribute to Henry. Peace.
We know that one adult in a school who listens and shows they care can improve the life of a young person, but we need to create school communities where all adults are intentional about protected space for students within a compassionate culture.
#TEAMMOLLY, please RT this post and support a teacher, if you’re able 🙏. Let’s make their lists go viral!
Pic of me with the man who singlehandledy changed my life, my high school English and History teacher, Randy Haggard. I would have dropped out of high school but for him.
Jonathan Annicks has a tattoo on his arm with 4/10/16 — the day he was shot and paralyzed.
“Every day that I was struggling, I would look down and … know that no matter what I was doing today, I would never be that low again."
@AP video by @irvineap https://t.co/8o8E58QJxo
Today we celebrate #Juneteenth ! Freedom day, the day that Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger proclaimed the end of slavery to individuals in Galveston, Texas.