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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

ED Surge

Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. When we got into the classroom, the students were shy.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. That’s important in Utah, which shares a border and a good deal of culture with Wyoming.

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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives  

The Hechinger Report

The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. Dark skies around Priest River Junior High School allow some light in the late afternoon on Election Day. This is not hyperbole.