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The Power of Iconic Images to Enlighten, Educate and Inform
WEBBy Frank W. Baker. Powerful images have a way of making us remember important people and events. And photographs, seen by millions of people, also have a way of raising consciousness about issues, many of them tied to health and gender awareness. When a cultural icon becomes associated with deadly illness or controversial lifestyle, …
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Supporting the Emotional Health of Our Students
WEBWe need to help them develop a framework for mental health and emotional safety during and after this pandemic. Think about this: the moment our students’ normal lives were shattered, their sense of safety in the world began to diminish. Having the stress pathway of the brain constantly on high alert from trauma leads to anxiety, …
Student Health Issues: 5 Things Teachers Need to Know
WEBConsider these five points, drawn from my experience as a veteran teacher and summer camp program director for teens with diabetes, when building your knowledge of student health concerns. 1. HIPAA and FERPA limit what school nurses can share with large groups of teachers. Both the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and …
Addressing the Mental Health Crisis Among Our Adolescents
WEBRemind students that we all have to tend to our mental health, just like our physical health, and when we feel unhealthy we need to seek help and care. Normalize discussing emotions. Model for your students how you recognize changes in your own emotions. Then ask them how they are feeling and let them share out what happened …
How to Create a Student Wellness Fair for Your School
WEBPlanning the Fair Activities. Begin by making a list of possible sessions that would benefit students by teaching them coping skills and/or promoting wellness and mental health awareness. Then start reaching out to people within the community who specialize in these forms of wellness and ask if they would be interested in participating in the
Deliberate Optimism Still Reclaiming Joy in Education 2 ed
WEBKathleen Palmieri is a National Board Certified Teacher and NBCT Professional Learning facilitator. She is a fifth grade educator in upstate New York who reviews and writes regularly for MiddleWeb.With a passion for literacy and learning in the classroom, she participates in various writing workshops, curriculum writing endeavors, …
Kids Teaching Kids Leads to Healthy Lessons
WEBFour: I would recommend that as students are listening to the lessons they make notes so they can thoughtfully reflect and ask questions. Last: Try to ensure that your students are challenged by their lesson and can really learn from their own information. Putting It All Together. Overall, students were very active in the development of their …
How Do We Teach and Have a Healthy Life
WEBSound advice, indeed. I know I feel better when I drink my homemade green smoothies for breakfast, eat healthful food, drink plenty of water, and get enough rest and exercise, so I just need to make this more of a priority. from “Doing More Isn’t Doing Better” NCTE presentation. Second, I will take care of my emotional well being.
How Kids’ Cultures Affect Their Understanding of Self-Care
WEBFor the sake of space I’ll note my top three takeaways here. Familismo is a Latino value that conceptualizes “inclusiveness, participation and strong relationships in nuclear and extended family networks.”. Within familismo, self-care is not individualized, but rooted in the collective. Interdependence is critical.
Misinformation: Helping Kids Develop More Cognitive Immunity
WEBThe creators of the gamified cognitive immunity website “Bad News” (screenshot above) describe their efforts as “pre-emptively exposing people to weakened examples of common techniques that are used in the production of fake news [to] generate ‘mental antibodies’” (see more here).The same team of researchers recently created a …
How Principals Can Team with Families and Community
WEBParent involvement is more than a monthly meeting at the school; it is the sum of all your interactions with parents and family members of your students. Intuitively, we know that involving parents and family members in a partnership has a positive impact on our students. When parents are involved both at home and at school, students do …
Why Physical Literacy Matters for Our Students
WEBPhysical literacy is a journey for each student that will have its challenges, obstacles and achievements along the way. The non-stop pursuit of improvement in our own human performance allows us to connect to social groups, create behavioral changes that go far beyond the PE classroom, and develop a sense of confidence that they will …
6 World-Saving STEM Challeges for the Middle Grades
WEBThis challenge deals with such problems as storm water runoff, wildlife habitat improvement, aesthetic landscapes, and permeable pavements. One of my most memorable STEM projects involved partnering my 8th grade students with a university professor, Dr. Kevin White. We were in a brand new school, and the new construction, …
How to Engineer a Great STEM Curriculum for Middle School
WEBHigh quality STEM curriculum is not math and science “lite.”. Rather, through authentic experiences, students should understand how key science and math concepts are applied out in the world. The science and math should be integrated, and math and science teachers may (it’s tempting to say “must”) collaborate to provide quality
Deliberate Optimism: Still Reclaiming the Joy in Education
WEBIn fact, it feels a bit like Silver and Berckemeyer are stopping by the staff lounge with you. Peppering the book are frequent QR codes linking to quizzes and multimedia, such as “The Secret to Giving Great Feedback” and “Declutter the Mind App,” as well as tips on the need for sufficient quality sleep, the definition of a friend, and the …
Communicate Effectively with Your School Board
WEBIn addition to effective communication, there are specific strategies to communicate with your school board. ♦ Identify a parent or community spokesperson to help deliver your message to the board. ♦ Frame the importance of your issue in your opening statement. Link it to board goals and how students will be successful once they …
Media Literacy: How To Close Read Infographics
WEBMany infographics are designed by experts who employ visual literacy and art techniques. This includes everything from the rule-of-thirds, to color, to font style and size, and layout. Infographics may convey information by using pie charts or bar charts. Or they may “invent” their own display systems.
Teaching Ethics Should Be a STEM Essential
WEBA child’s earliest exposure to morals, values, and ethics happens in the family – where character first finds its roots. Exposure to culture and learning during the school years further shapes the child’s ethical outlook. Jackie Gerstein in her post Teaching Ethics in the Age of Technology writes that teaching ethics in STEM fields is
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