RESOURCES:
Kristin's website: fosteringresilientlearners.org
Kristin's books: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/kristin%20souers
Trauma researcher and author Kristin Souers talks about her work, and discusses what makes a school resilient, and how the systems of a school need to come together and work in tandem toward being trauma-informed.
RESOURCES: Kristin's website: fosteringresilientlearners.org Kristin's books: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/kristin%20souers
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Is your school or district walking the talk? Are they training educators to become trauma-informed but then still run the school as if it's the 1050's? Using the Appreciative Inquiry model as her framework, guest Lisa Dinhofer takes us through questions a team of educators can ask themselves as they go through the work of ensuring that the operations and systems within their workplace are actually trauma-informed.
RESOURCES: Appreciative Inquiry: https://positivepsychology.com/appreciative-inquiry/ Ep 60: Vicarious Trauma, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Secondary Trauma with Lisa Dinhofer3/8/2023
Crisis expert Lisa Dinhofer is back to explain the nuances of compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, and burnout. As we are navigating this new world of SEL and mental health-focused schools and programming, it's important to understand the differences. Language matters.
DESCRIPTION: Founder and CEO Tracy Heilers and Board President Lindsey Frank of the Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully (COSEM) share how the organization came about and how they created their book, "Educating Mindfully: Stories of School Transformation Through Mindfulness." This text has become one of their most popular tools it helping schools and districts implement a climate of mindfulness based SEL.
RESOURCES and LINKS: Learn more about the book Buy the book COSEM website Mindfulness-Based SEL Micro-credential EMCON (annual SEL Conference) Join COSEM
Host Matt Weld speaks with ParenTeach and ParentABLE founder/CEO Katharine Bensinger about the importance of teaching parenting and caregiving to high school students. It's important for kids to understand Adverse Childhood Effects while they are young and to gain enough child development and personal advocacy skills to avoid 'unintentional' parenting mistakes.
Katharine Bensinger is a passionate advocate for parenting education. She holds a Master's of Science Degree in Human Services from National Louis University and a BA in Spanish from the University of San Francisco. Katharine has spent the last 25 years dedicated to providing parents with parenting skills to help them raise healthy, confident children who are better prepared to live up to their full potential. The Parenting Fundamentals Parenting Education Program was conceived from Katharine’s desire to support families. Parenting Fundamentals was registered in the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs & Practices in 2012, in Archivo Interamericano de Programas Y Pracitcas Basada en Evidencia in 2013, and in Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center in 2019. Katharine also spearheaded constituent legislation to introduce parenting education into high school wellness curriculum across Illinois which passed in August of 2019. Katharine currently serves as founder and CEO of ParenTeach whose mission is to educate and support emerging adults, parents, and caregivers in their most important job, the job of raising and mentoring the next generation. Katharine also values the time she spends with her two grown children, her family and friends, canvassing for local political campaigns, hiking, swimming, knitting, traveling, and practicing yoga. LINKS & RESOURCES: ParenTeach website: https://www.parenteach.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ParenTeachForAll Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parenteachforall/
Author and educator Greg Wolcott joins host Matt Weld in discussing the importance of relationships in schools. Greg also gives easy classroom strategies to strengthen relationships with students and teachers.
RESOURCES and SHOW NOTES: Greg Wolcott's Author Website: www.significant72.com/ Follow Greg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregJWolcott
Social Emotional Learning - SEL - is the buzzword in education. Author, coach, and teacher Lindsey Frank stops in to talk about what SEL is, how adding the mindfulness piece adds power, and how teaching kids her HEART process can be a lifelong gift.
What's it like attending an English-speaking school from the perspective of a student who doesn't know English? In this conversation, Bridget, a High School Junior tells her story of how she navigated teachers, friends, and the friction between her White and Latin identities as she learned the language and culture of America through school.
Special thanks to her principal, Kurt Roberts, and her teacher, Joe Fatheree, for making this interview happen.
'Verify before you Amplify' is the catchphrase of How2Inform, a website dedicated to teaching students about misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation on social media and the Internet in general. Dr. Vesna Markovic and Kimberley Skubic, both with backgrounds in criminal justice, talk with host Matt Weld about their program.
LINKS & RESOURCES:
How2Inform Website: https://h2i.info/ Email: How2INFORM@lewisu.edu Parents with Preparedness (magazine article) AllSides - website that gives 3 different views from 3 different sources of same news story AdFontsMedia - provides static and searchable graphic on where different news sources are on political spectrum Fact or Fake? by Tom Jackson - book for kids and teens The Nantucket Sea Monster: a Fake News Story by Darcy Pattison - Children's Book
Deep dive into meditation in the Classroom with Dr. Bill Meyer, author of the book, "Three Breaths and Begin: a Guide to Meditation in the Classroom." In addition, we discuss the hallmarks of good SEL programming in schools and the different ways in which they can start. Bill Meyer is a staff developer and instructional coach at the secondary level in a school district just outside New York City. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, a graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and has recently finished a Ph.D. in educational leadership and administration from NYU. He is the author of five books, including three about meditation, which have been published in multiple languages.
LINKS and RESOURCES: Dr. Meyer's website Connect on Twitter Seven Unexpected Way Meditation Changed my Teaching, by Bill Meyer [article] William Meyer books on Amazon |
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