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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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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

She remembers being named valedictorian of her junior high, and as a result winning a scholarship to St. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed). She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. She became the family translator.

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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. He said he usually doesn’t handle that many evaluations over the course of an entire school year.

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

The Hechinger Report

She said it was confusing, poorly written, and not vetted by the board’s legal counsel (instead it was reviewed by the anti-LGBTQ Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom). Dark skies around Priest River Junior High School allow some light in the late afternoon on Election Day. The policy ended up passing 4-0.