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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

Pediatrics, January 2012, 129(1), pp. The Science of Early Life Toxic Stress for Pediatric Practice and Advocacy. Academic Pediatrics, 2017, 17(8), pp. The link between classroom teacher burnout and morning cortisol in elementary school students. Shonkoff, J.P., and Garner, A.S. Johnson, S.B., Riley, A.W., Granger, D.A.,

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OPINION: Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilities

The Hechinger Report

While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. College leaders and faculty must continue to help students with disabilities develop the self-advocacy skills and self-determination they need to be successful.

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‘It’s OK to not be OK:’ How One High School Saved Lives with a 34-Question Survey

MindShift

The 2017 version found that 17% of Colorado middle and high school students reported considering suicide and 7% reported making one or more attempts. Soon after VanIwarden took the wellness coordinator job in the fall of 2017, Murray proposed the idea of a universal mental health screening. Our job is to help these kids.”.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

The Hechinger Report

In 50 elementary schools, according to officials, these students now take classes in Spanish and English with an ultimate goal of achieving academic proficiency in both languages by middle school. The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school.

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Why Getting Help for Kids with Dyslexia is Difficult

MindShift

When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. In 2012 when the public schools in Baltimore County refused to give the Gibson children IEPs, Rob and Maggie decided to hire a lawyer. ” Billy graduated from Jemicy in 2017. Students at or above proficient reading level.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Venture Capital in 2017.

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