Remove Cultures Remove Education Remove Policy Impact
article thumbnail

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

ED Surge

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020. “[Now] some of them have blossomed, some of them have overcome that.

Cultures 141
article thumbnail

We need more black and brown teachers but not for the reasons you think

The Hechinger Report

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. If we are to improve educational outcomes among low-income students of color, then it’s not just the black students who need black teachers; it’s white students too. Washington teaches a class in 1916.

article thumbnail

We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

The Hechinger Report

Across the country, parents and educators are struggling to assess and alleviate the pandemic’s toll on young children. We will see the short-term impacts,” said Cynthia Osborne, director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at the University of Texas at Austin. “We But we will also see this for decades to come.