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Supporting Student Mental Health in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide to Compassionate Engagement

Faculty Focus

While staff in student affairs and counseling centers are often trained in mental health response and early intervention, faculty are frequently left out of these critical conversations. Toward a Culture of Care UMBC is advancing a Culture of CARE that centers equity, resilience, and connection across the campus experience.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

Edsurge

Similarly, AT&T Aspire’s Words Liive combines excerpts from popular songs and classic literature to allow teachers to create engaging, culturally relevant lessons. If you focus on both, both are slowed down,” Speakaboos’ Jay Rappoport counseled. The same principle applies to edtech companies.

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Bullying: When Teachers Should Intervene

Teach Hub

Check with your districts legal counsel or administration to understand your rights and responsibilities. Offer counseling, peer support groups, or mentoring programs to help them regain confidence. Let them know they have a safe space in your classroom. Heres how you can proactively reduce bullying in your classroom.

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Can middle schoolers handle college? This San Jose school is finding out

Cal Matters

The dean of the community colleges counseling department, Victor Garza, refused an interview request from CalMatters but issued a written statement. If she does attend one of those schools, her grade in this counseling class would be part of her official college transcript.

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Supporting Student Mental Health in the Classroom: A Faculty Guide to Compassionate Engagement

Faculty Focus

While staff in student affairs and counseling centers are often trained in mental health response and early intervention, faculty are frequently left out of these critical conversations. Toward a Culture of Care UMBC is advancing a Culture of CARE that centers equity, resilience, and connection across the campus experience.

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How to Help Students Without Being a Savior

Cult of Pedagogy

” “The cultural narrative about trauma usually pushes us to one of two directions,” Venet says, “the first direction being that people with trauma are broken. “My students with trauma are broken. I feel so bad for those kids.” ” “My value is in how much my students respond to me.”

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Why support for students and a strong school culture are key to this middle school principal

eSchool News

You try to counsel them as best as you can and then provide some kind of disciplinary action. And then it’s like, OK, now go back to the classroom.” And whenever we have a teacher that struggles with classroom management, I will hand them that book and say, read this chapter. And if they don’t, I think they should.