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We've gotten some really valuable feedback so far on the new draft of Memorial's Public Engagement Framework. Follow the links in The Office of Public Engagement, Memorial University's post if you want to add yours!

Students experience academic benefits & improved wellbeing when they receive instruction from educators who reflect the students they serve. That’s why expanding representation in OH’s ed workforce is so important. Hear more about our work in this vid💻https://lnkd.in/gYMiZjgh

Navigating the complex landscape of free speech in educational settings is crucial for administrators, educators, and policymakers. Our webinar, "Student and Employee Speech: Respecting the Right to Free Speech While Protecting the School Environment," offers comprehensive insights into balancing the rights of individuals to express their ideas while maintaining a safe and respectful school environment. Click here for more information: https://lnkd.in/dHj-GRbe

We asked our GTL Advisory Board members what they see as the most pressing issues in the field related to educator workforce/recruitment and retention. Here's what Roddy Theobald, Deputy Director CALDER and Managing Researcher at the American Institutes for Research had to say. How do his insights compare to your own thoughts? Share your perspectives in the comments below! And check out this recent paper co-authored by Roddy: Four Years of Pandemic-Era Emergency Licenses: Retention and Effectiveness of Emergency-Licensed Massachusetts Teachers Over Time | CALDER (caldercenter.org)

Segregation transcends the boundaries of education, touching every facet of our lives—impacting health, workforce opportunities, and more. In Part 5 of our “Integration & Equity 2.0” essay series, authors recognize the need for multisector coordination to propel educational equity forward. These people-centric essays illuminate the path for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and communities. Together, they design a future where schools are integrated, equitable, and poised for success. Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Huriya Jabbar, DeMarcus Jenkins, Kara Finnigan, Ariel H. Bierbaum, MCP, PhD, Halley Potter, Lara A., and Stefan Lallinger https://lnkd.in/esUJk-Sn

What can this year’s educator shortage survey tell us that adds to the conversation on Illinois Educator Shortages? In collaboration with IARSS, ROE LEAD Hubs, Goshen Consulting, and Regional Office of Education 17, our latest white paper explores two consistencies and three surprises in this year’s data collection. Read about them here: https://lnkd.in/g_RBWAGQ

Thriving in residential care. 1.6m people are struggling to get the care they need or any care at all. Of course people want to live in their own homes, but proper support and care can be essential, to thrive, at home or anywhere. Sadly, in pursuit of staying home, but cutting costs, for hundreds of thousands, that can mean a lonely life, imprisoned by 4 walls, and if any support is funded, (and that's increasingly less likely), it is often minimalistic, task based and addresses only the basic and most mundane tasks. We are perfectly capable of providing better, proper holistic and rounded support that supports a life worth living and, as the Eden Alternative, we work with providers who do exactly that brilliantly, but, it's less likely to be the case on council funded packages, especially when contractual visits are limited to 30 minutes or even 15. Then, for a number of people, living unassisted at home for the majority of time is just not a sensible option or a life of fulfillment. In fact, it may have become very challenging, highly stressful and / or unsafe. Then there are residential options. There are residential homes supporting everything, throughout 24hrs x 365 days. There are literally thousands of brilliant residential homes that deliver 'home' from home, (even if all you hear about is not that). It's perfectly possible, it does happen in thousands of places, even where they are funded by councils or the NHS. The Eden Alternative works with a number both working in people's home and in residential care (like my own homes) and through a validation process, see and hears an abundance of stories of achievement, fulfillment and loving companionship, that can help make later life, an amazing chapter in life. We just need to want to do that that as a society, find it, yet in large parts, we just don't bother, and, it starts with government and care commissioning , which is archaic, and why we have a mismatch, in so many things, which we just don't do very well. You know the long list. But we can in home care and residential care, it already happens in many settings and as this research sets out above, and with people like My Home life, https://lnkd.in/etNHAKXQ, Eden Alternative, https://lnkd.in/eppdM6sD, Meaningful care matters https://lnkd.in/eQsN58GP, and many others, there are plenty who know exactly how, and why it's critical, and can help make it happen. T

Is your school prepared to ensure the safety of every student? Check out this new Campus Safety Magazine article where BlazerWorks Clinical Advisory Team Director Jaime Sowers, Ed.D., shares expert tips on how your school can effectively meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities during emergency situations. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3SCaYw9

September News from The Desk of Cindy Terebush https://wix.to/w8iEkPg In This Issue of My Newsletter: NJ opportunity to learn with me, Thoughts about the new school year and more

Learn more about interprofessional education, interdisciplinary collaboration, and Total Worker Health in the manuscript “Let’s Learn Together! A Mixed-Methods Study to Assess Readiness for Interprofessional Education on Total Worker Health® Practice” by researchers Suzanne Nobrega and Yuan Zhang. https://lnkd.in/e7mS7sg2