AAFCS Best of Texas Awards app is open! Nominate a peer, colleague, or friend who has made significant contributions to the FCS profession. The application can be found on the AAFCS-TX awards tab or here: https://t.co/nAIBCH0oZh
Supporting mental health in schools means supporting educators’ mental health.
As your school plans for the new year, use these tips to prioritize mental health for adults too, so they can be the best version of themselves in & out of the classroom.
#MondayMotivation
If you work as a:
🧑🏫 Teacher
🧑🚒 First responder
🧑⚖️ Government employee
You can qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Use @FAFSA's #PSLF Help Tool to apply:
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When schools provide mental health support for students:
📚 Academic outcomes improve
⬇️ Discipline referrals are reduced
🧑🎓 Both attendance & graduation rates increase
More at National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments: https://t.co/JvTdA0Tc3n #FactFriday
Our Principles of Education and Training students celebrated Thanksgiving with MHS Preschool. They created and led different activities and also provided beautiful and delicious snacks! #MHSFCS#BetterTogether
Our guest speaker, @DonnaCorder, working with all our FCS students on an activity to emphasize the importance of planning and fostering cooperation and teamwork. #SEL#BetterTogether
In the project, flower pots were used to represent the family. Students compared how a flower pot and a family are similar in the aspect of being strong, holding things together, possibly breaking, and coming in different sizes and shapes.
Our Child Development students working on "Families are like Flower Pot". A couple of the objectives of this lesson were to define family and to understand the characteristics of strong families.