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Social and Emotional Learning for Bilingual Students

04/18/16
As the founder, and current Director of Admissions, of Escuela Bilingüe Internacional, a pre-kinder through 8th grade school in Oakland, California, I am frequently asked by worried, monolingual, English-speaking parents if their child will suffer emotional stress by being immersed in the Spanish...
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Liza Sánchez
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education Health Care

Trauma Informed Care For Children of #MilFams

04/18/16
Every time I hear the statistics that 18 to 22 veterans commit suicide each day, I am heartbroken. I wonder what more could have been done to help. Perhaps nothing, but I don't really believe that. While I have never attempted suicide, I have experienced depression. My husband deployed last year...
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Susan Reynolds
Podcast

#Radio This Week: The Fight Is On!

04/18/16
On this show we cover the growing momentum to end mass incarceration and move forward criminal justice reform; then we move on to discuss the recent debates and who said what and how. The next segments covers the top things to eliminate from your diet to be healthier and how to build a culture of...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Families & The Federal Budget

We need your signature to support tax breaks for working families this Tax Day!

04/18/16
This Tax Day, we need YOU to reach out to Congress and tell them tax breaks for working families, not just wealthy corporations!
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Elyssa Schmier
Immigration

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum demands justice for immigrant families

04/18/16
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in the challenge to President Obama’s expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Legal Permanent Residents (DAPA) programs. At issue is whether President Obama’s actions exceeded his...
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Miriam Yeung
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

Who helps the helper? #InsideOut: Why attending to Secondary Traumatic Stress is an imperative for Early Learning Programs

04/18/16
“Who helps the helper?” In a new documentary, Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion and their Pain , this poignant question is posed by an early childhood educator. Over the last decade a plethora of research has emerged demonstrating that exposure to trauma and violence in early...
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Leslie Lieberman
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities: Creating a just, healthy and resilient world

04/18/16
Community networks organized around ACEs and resilience, like those participating in MARC, provide a ready vehicle for concerned moms (and non-moms) to join the movement to end childhood trauma and to create a just, healthy and resilient world.
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MARC
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

Supporting Social and Emotional Learning through Every Student Succeeds Act

04/18/16
A core component of a healthy school environment is supporting social and emotional learning. Social and emotional learning includes knowledge and skills such as understanding and managing emotions, setting and achieving positive goals, feeling and showing empathy for others and making responsible...
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Alexandra Mays
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

The ABCs of ACEs #InsideOut

04/18/16
Underlying the buzzwords “social emotional health” and “trauma-informed care” is some astounding new knowledge that will knock your socks off if you haven’t heard about it. And once you grok it, it will change your entire outlook on why humans behave the way they do, including kids. This new...
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Jane Stevens
Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

My #InsideOut Story: How Social and Emotional Learning Made a Difference for My Kids

04/18/16
As a mother of two, including one with special needs and a birth defect, I have seen first-hand how parents, children and society all win when families have access to high-quality affordable childcare, early learning programs, and mental health programs that take children’s social and emotional...
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Sheila Arias

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