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

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Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Anytime we have parent-teacher conferences, it’s the Cub Connection teacher's responsibility to communicate that information to the parent.

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Teachers Can Positively Impact Education Policy, We Just Have to Use Our Teacher Voice

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This was the first time in many years that Texas was revising its sex education standards, which would impact millions of students in Texas for many years. The Texas sex education standards make no mention of LGBTQIA+ identities , therefore denying LGBTQIA+ students the relevant information their cisgender and heterosexual classmates receive.

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

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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 Experts in child trauma encourage childcare centers to embrace a trauma-informed approach in order to help kids process painful experiences and develop coping skills.

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1 in 5 child care workers is an immigrant. Trump’s deportations and raids have many terrified

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Immigrants are especially likely to serve as friend, family and neighbor caregivers, taking on the informal and flexible care arrangements that are most popular with parents. Because Americas child care system is so reliant on the work of immigrants, the impacts are instantaneous, he added.