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Making sure you show up in your own story

(From 2017) Tomorrow we have our fourth Annual Storytelling Festival for the AmeriCorps programs of Maryland. Our hosts at Casa Maryland and Pablo Blank always provide a warm welcome in their amazing space. Each year, we try different things and…..

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Schoolchildren’s pandemic struggles, made worse by U.S. policies

Review by Hannah Natanson Washington Post Sep 4th 2022 We have all heard, by this point, that school closures during the first year of the pandemic damaged children. We have heard that children slid behind where they should be academically,…..

School Is for Hope

By Gabrielle Oliveira  NYT Sep 1 2022 It was a cold day in January 2019, and Heidi, who was 6 years old, was ready for her first day of school in the United States. Her father, Jorge, woke up early to help her with her…..

School Is for Care

By Jessica Grose    NYT Sep 1 2022 Kimberly Wilson’s TikTok videos often begin with the back of a little girl’s head. The child’s hair is matted, and Wilson, who works at Butcher-Greene Elementary in Grandview, Mo., begins to gently comb out the snarls. By the end…..

In one word, how does it feel to be a teacher right now?

These 12 Teachers Don’t See Themselves as Superheroes Give this article Across the United States, education has become one of the hottest and most keenly felt political issues. Ever since the Covid pandemic began, governors, mayors, union officials, legislators and…..

American students’ test scores plunge to levels unseen for decades

By Donna St. George Washington Post Sep 1 2022 Test scores in elementary school math and reading plummeted to levels unseen for decades, according to the first nationally representative report comparing student achievement from just before the pandemic to performance two years later. Math scores dropped seven points…..

The trouble with viewing 9/11 and the pandemic through a wartime lens

Perspective by Lila Nordstrom and Sarah Senk  Washington Post September 11th 2022 In the 21 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have relied on wartime tropes to understand the tragedy: “Ground Zero” conjured images of nuclear detonation; the dead were described as “fallen…..

When a parent’s mental health struggle affects their kids

By Caitlin Gibson July 21, 2022 at 10:28 a.m. EDT Washington Post Eileen Grimes was sitting on the examination table, already feeling rather exposed in a thin paper gown as she waited to begin a routine appointment with her OB/GYN last August……

8 ways to feel less anxious about things beyond your control

Advice by Lesley Alderman, LCSW Washington Post September 13th 2022 One of my patients showed up at her virtual psychotherapy session last week looking tired. She had always been ambitious and concerned about injustice. During this session, she sighed when talking…..

FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Launches National Effort to Support Student Success

President Biden calls on schools to leverage American Rescue Plan funds to expand programming and services to help students make up for lost learning time and succeed America’s students are on average two to four months behind in reading and…..

The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading

By Sarah Mervosh New York Times Sep 1 2022 The results of a national test showed just how devastating the last two years have been for 9-year-old schoolchildren, especially the most vulnerable. National test results released on Thursday showed in stark…..