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5 Ways to Teach Kids to Be Active Advocates Against Racism
From Remezcla: "Racism isn’t a new issue but in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, more people are openly discussing the subject for the first time."
Strategies Schools Can Use To Become More Trauma-Informed
Fro KQED: "Positive relationships with caring adults can help buffer students from the effects of trauma and chronic stress."
How to encourage children to include ones with disabilities
From Love That Max blog: "Inclusion starts with talking about what's similar between your child and ones with disabilities since different can be intimidating and scary."
Emotional Grounding: Nurturing Emotional Intelligence in Sensitive and Anxious Children
From ILS Learning Corner: "How much time do we spend teaching our children to identify their emotions and what triggers those emotions?"
America’s great remote-learning experiment
From Chalk Beat: What surveys of teachers and parents tell us about how it went.
Advice for New Social Justice Educators: “I Wish I Had Known”
From Learning For Justice: The Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board shares what they’ve learned as they’ve worked for justice in schools.
Social-Emotional Skills for Kids Start with You, the Parent – 8 Ways to Start
From You-EQ.com: "What we knew as soft skills in the past are now essential and critical social-emotional skills for today."
10 Tips for De-Escalating Sensory Meltdowns This Summer
From AngelSense: "The summer can be particularly trying for both kids with autism, and their parents."
9 Ways Online Teaching Should be Different from Face-to-Face
From Cult of Pedagogy: "What shifts do we need to make in our face-to-face teaching practices to make the most of online learning?"
What’s Lost When Parents Don’t Talk About Social Identity With Their Kids?
From KQED: "Children are hard-wired to notice differences at a young age — and they're asking questions."