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The Snow Arrives After Long Silence
The snow arrives after long silence from its high home where nothing leaves tracks or strains or keeps time. The sky it fell from, pale as oatmeal, bears up like sheep before shearing. The cat at my window watches amazed. So many feathers and no bird! All day the snow sets its table with clean linen, putting its house in order. The hungry deer walk on the risen loaves of snow. You can follow the broken hearts their hooves punch in its crust.
The snow arrives after long silence
The snow arrives after long silence from its high home where nothing leaves tracks or strains or keeps time. The sky it fell from, pale as oatmeal, bears up like sheep before shearing. The cat at my window watches amazed. So many feathers and no bird! All day the snow sets its table with clean linen, putting its house in order. The hungry deer walk on the risen loaves of snow. You can follow the broken hearts their hooves punch in its crust.
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Guest View: Back to school? Think again
Lane County parents should think twice about sending their children back to any school that opens. There are concerns that children could become infected and bring COVID-19 home to their family and concerns about the distress associated with the school environment. The governor’s office, the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Department of Education have not provided sound leadership.
Students returning to school under current conditions would be traumatized. Here's why.
The metrics issued by Gov. Kate Brown on July 28, for the opening of Oregon schools for in-school learning were based on outdated research that has now been found to be inaccurate. Rather than supporting the instruction and emotional well-being of students, the experience of students returning to school would be highly traumatizing under current conditions.
Helping Young People Gain Resilience During the Pandemic
Young people throughout the world are experiencing greater distress than usual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This toxic stress is a form of trauma. Fortunately, there are strategies parents and caregivers can use to help their children gain greater resilience. Resilience is the ability to successfully respond to challenges and adversity. When we feel stress or threats, our bodies prepare us to respond by increasing our heart rate, blood pressure and stress hormones, such as cortisol.
Pandemic Education: Empower Your Child’s Learning Over the Summer
Your child has been spending many weeks now engaged in what is commonly called distance learning or e-learning, but it may be more appropriately described as crisis schooling. Evidence is increasing that these learning activities have been challenging for many young people, especially if their families have also been distressed. If you or your child’s teacher has perceived your child to be unmotivated in their online studies, please realize that there is absolutely nothing wrong with your child.
How to Find Resilience During This Difficult Time
Today’s guest blog is written by Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D., the author of Be Positively Powerful: A Guide for Teens on Achieving Resilience and Empowerment and Engage Students to Embrace Civility. This blog presents practical, research-based strategies for how educators can gain greater resilience in the face of the toxic stress of these times.
Increasing student resilience in the era of increased suicides and school shootings
This spring, schools have experienced a profound increase in student suicides and attempts, as well as school shootings. Recognize that as bad as things have been this spring, things are likely to be worse next fall. Contention over race, origin, LGBTQ, and sexual assault/harassment will increase, along with contention over gun control in the context of a focus on school shootings. Schools must be prepared to go into the 2018-19 school year. Students who engage in school shootings are suicidal.
Protecting Children in the 21st Century
The Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act added a provision to the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requiring that schools that receive E-rate and other technology funds educate minors about appropriate online behavior. This includes showing students how to interact with other individuals on social networking Web sites and in chat rooms, and teaching them about cyberbullying awareness and response.
Rethinking responses to bullying
The results of a national survey of more than 1,500 high school students call into question the effectiveness of staff responses to bullying. The survey conducted last October by our Embrace Civility in the Digital Age project provides helpful insights into causes of hurtful behavior, but shows that a majority of students hold positive values. Schools are encouraged—or required by law—to approach bullying as an act of defiance against authority.
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