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Articles by Amy Meuers

Lessons Learned From My Elementary School Bully and What We’re Teaching Our Children When We Stay Silent

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By Amy Meuers
| Medium
When I was ten years old, I had a bully. I don’t know why he picked me, but he did. At that age, it felt like the worst thing that could ever happen. I can’t remember exactly when it started, only that once it did, it felt like it would never stop. I wasn’t someone who stood out. I had friends, was kind (as kind as a ten-year-old knows how to be), and got along with my teachers. I was trying to do my best. And somehow, I became the target of someone’s anger and aggression.
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To Be The Leaders Of Tomorrow, Students Need To Learn Essential Skills - Today

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By Amy Meuers
| Omaha Daily Record Verified
To Be The Leaders Of Tomorrow, Students Need To Learn Essential Skills — Today To Be the Leaders of Tomorrow, Students Need to Learn Essential Skills — Today Meuers: Service learning gives young people the chance to address real community issues and make needed change with curiosity, creativity and empathy.
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To Be the Leaders of Tomorrow, Students Need to Learn Essential Skills - Today Original

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By Amy Meuers
| The 74 Verified
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter In a 2023 poll conducted by the U.S. News-Harris Poll survey, 86% of Americans voiced deep disappointment in society’s leaders, believing them ill-equipped to handle today’s crises and failing to reflect the values cherished by everyday Americans. Moreover, a significant number feel that instead of advancing society, the nation’s current leaders are hindering progress, and in some cases, making things worse.
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What is Service-Learning

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By Amy Meuers
| nylc.org
By Amy Meuers, NYLC CEO Service-learning – such a simple term, yet so many people are confused by what it actually is. I like to start with what service-learning isn’t. It isn’t service during school hours. You know what I’m talking about. Those required hours that many students wait until the last semester of school to fulfill and then frantically try to find any place that will allow them to volunteer so they can check the box that they completed their time.
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Developing SEL Skills With Service Learning

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By Amy Meuers
| Edutopia Verified
The conversation around the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) has seen a resurgence in recent years. The effects of the pandemic, combined with the ongoing trauma that young people are experiencing due to increasing violence, among other factors, have educators quickly searching for solutions to bring SEL practices into their classrooms.
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Service Learning Makes Online Learning Meaningful and Engaging

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By Amy Meuers, Shira Cohen
| Youth Today Verified
BAZA PRODUCTION/SHUTTERSTOCK During distance learning youth can feel disconnected from their educators, their peers and the content of what they are learning. Service learning brings a sense of meaning and contribution to online learning that other instructional strategies may lack. It inspires youth to learn more about a subject and then put that knowledge to work by taking action on an issue within their community.
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Congress should oppose Trump proposal to eliminate National and Community Service programs

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By Jon Schroeder, Jim Kielsmeier, Amy Meuers
| MinnPost Verified
AmeriCorps, VISTA and Senior Corps would be eliminated under the Trump administration's 2018 budget proposal, unveiled March 16. These and other national service programs are funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service.Jim KielsmeierMinnesota – long a leader in promoting volunteerism and community service tied to education – would be one of the biggest losers if the corporation were eliminated.
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Congress should oppose Trump proposal to eliminate national service programs

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By Jim Kielsmeier, Amy Meuers, Jon Schroeder
| MinnPost Verified
AmeriCorps, VISTA and Senior Corps would be eliminated under the Trump administration's 2018 budget proposal, unveiled March 16. These and other national service programs are funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service.Jim KielsmeierMinnesota – long a leader in promoting volunteerism and community service tied to education – would be one of the biggest losers if the corporation were eliminated.
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