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🧠✨ The study of resilience highlights the crucial role of executive functions in the academic success of children facing adversity. These skills, which include working memory, attention, and inhibition of automatic responses, develop rapidly during the preschool period and are essential for school and behavioral maturity. Read the full updated text here: https://lnkd.in/eFqhUmut

"It's hard to be happy right now, it's hard to feel normal with all that's happening..." I'd been succeeding in keeping the 'personal' apart from the 'professional' very effectively up until now, but something snapped in me the minute an educator shared this during an icebreaker for a PD session last week. Amid intense uproar online and offline, and a horrible sense of grief and helplessness that hangs over so many shoulders right now, I wonder what our school communities and education fraternity is doing to help each other cope with the intensity of the current crisis and injustice in our region. Are we equipped to hold this pain and grief? Are we prepared to make room for difficult conversations? Are we considering the impact of the news we are absorbing and our reactions on our students? Are we able to contextualize current events and equip our students with a vision for peace-building and restoration? Today, I’m reminded of the frustration I feel with the lack of a strong social science curriculum in schools across the Middle East, and an almost total absence of social sciences in higher education. STEAM is essential to have the tools and skills to build a future. The social sciences are essential to be able to imagine and evaluate what that future could look like and what role we can play in it, as individuals and as communities. Once the dust settles, which I hope - like you - that it does very soon, I wonder if this is a conversation education leaders in the region would be willing to take on. 

Dr. Derron Hilts, Ph.D., NCC, NCSC , assistant professor and school counseling program coordinator at Niagara University, along with his colleague, Dr. Yanhong Liu, associate professor at Syracuse University, received a $5,000 grant from the New York State School Counselor Association to examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and student-to-school counselor ratios on student outcomes. Their research aims to illuminate the potential impact of school counselors having relatively manageable caseload sizes on student outcomes, as well as how the COVID-19 pandemic has further influenced this relationship. Read more about their research here: https://lnkd.in/gRZGaV85

New data from the Center on Reinventing Public Education is in, and it's not looking good. Test scores are down, chronic absenteeism is up, and student mental health is struggling.   But it's not all doom and gloom. Despite the challenges, there are bright spots of innovation to be learned from. It's time for state and local leaders to act and work to support improving student outcomes and well-being. Find the full story in CRPE's State of the American Student 2023 report:

New data from the Center on Reinventing Public Education is in, and it's not looking good. Test scores are down, chronic absenteeism is up, and student mental health is struggling. But it's not all doom and gloom. Despite the challenges, there are bright spots of innovation to be learned from. It's time for state and local leaders to act and work to support improving student outcomes and well-being. Find the full story in CRPE's State of the American Student 2023 report:

This week on Conscious Pathways I'm joined by Dr. Denise Kennedy, PhD, Professor and Department Chair of Early Childhood Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In this conversation, Dr. Kennedy highlights the critical importance of play-based inquiry in early childhood education. She emphasizes how traditional education systems often focus on teaching to the test, which limits children's ability to problem-solve and think critically. Dr. Kennedy illustrates this with a powerful example: if we hand a child a toy and tell them exactly how to use it, they’ll follow instructions and move on. However, if we give them the toy with open-ended curiosity, they’ll explore and discover far more, enhancing their learning experience through play and inquiry-based learning. 🎧 Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gqav94yW b677a0d6-4c19-45bb-9c02-8e38fe5bde69/ep/5e029632-26e8-491e-8a77-214ca5cc98ac Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gb-yxSQY Let's discuss! How can we incorporate more play-based inquiry into our education systems? Share your thoughts in the comments below! ⬇️💬 #EarlyChildhoodEducation #PlayBasedLearning #CriticalThinking #ProblemSolving #InquiryBasedLearning #ChildDevelopment #EducationSystem #STEM #Literacy #TeacherPreparationPrograms #PedagogicalSkills.#PlayBasedInquiry #FosteringCreativity #CriticalThinkingSkills #ActiveLearning #InquiryBasedLearning #EducationForTheFuture #ProblemSolvingSkills #EmpoweringChildren #BeyondMemorization #UnlockingPotential

Exciting news! My article titled ‘Narrating Access and Agency: Students With Intellectual Disability Share Their Experiences With Higher Education’ with Beth Myers has been published in the Journal of Remedial and Special Education. This article offers new insights into the experiences of students with intellectual disability in higher education. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/e_dt-DX2

When I was earning my Secondary Education degree in undergrad words like 'inquiry', a teaching philosophy where students learn by questioning, reflecting, and discovering, was all the rage. 15 years later the outcomes have not been great. It may be time to go back to what has been labeled 'traditional' teaching where teachers teach knowledge and students practice memorizing it. More in the article: https://lnkd.in/gPFdnAjA

This is why we do what we do at Two Hands. This is a quote by Kathy Sylva, Professor of Educational Psychology at Oxford University, in the EPPSE project (Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education). This involved more than 3,000 children, who were assessed at the start of pre-school (at approximately three years old) and their development was then monitored as they entered school until they made their post-16 education, training or employment choices. #earlyyears #earlyyearseducation #earlychildhooddevelopment

"There is no place for hate at NYU, including antisemitism and Islamophobia,” write President Linda G. Mills and Sr. Vice President for University Life Jason Pina in today’s message outlining a 10-point plan to promote student safety and wellbeing. “Confident we can be a foundation of civil discourse, we want to emphasize our university’s standing as a place of reflection, free expression, shared respect, and security.” The plan includes doubling the already increased hours of Campus Safety foot patrols; the continued enforcement of our codes of conduct and non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies; added resources to review complaints submitted through NYU’s Bias Response Line; weekly workshops to learn about the history of Islamophobia and antisemitism and their impact; and more. Read all 10 points in detail: https://lnkd.in/eVJp7mhm