the-importance-of-community-for-reducing-social-isolation 
Futurum
JUNE 22, 2023
The importance of community for reducing social isolation Published: Social isolation is caused by a lack of social contact. In the US, they commonly need to work to make ends meet, but the responsibilities of work and family result in a lack of social connection.
ED Surge
AUGUST 29, 2023
My colleagues at the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning ( CASEL ) were there to gather data on how teachers can help students thrive by focusing on the learning conditions they have the power to create within their classrooms. During this back-to-school season, this quote serves as an important reminder.
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ED Surge
JULY 31, 2023
“Collective trauma is embedded within the community,” Diaz says. Diaz hopes to join the mental health workforce one day so he can lift up the diverse voices and stories of his community, he says: “This program can give me the tools and resources necessary to highlight and create healing spaces.”
ED Surge
APRIL 29, 2022
Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when.
Futurum
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Interacting with music can have significant benefits for both your physical and mental health, meaning music can play an important role in your well-being. Professor Gilles Comeau , from the University of Ottawa in Canada, hopes to change this. Gilles is convinced of the power of music for improving health and well-being.
ED Surge
MAY 20, 2022
Our education system is having its own Henny Penny moment, with loud voices from the right generating and spreading panic that social and emotional learning, or SEL, endangers and “ indoctrinates ” students. She quickly creates mass hysteria among her animal peers. Instead, evaluate the facts. The sky is not falling.
ED Surge
APRIL 1, 2022
“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. If you don’t focus on the educators, then what is that classroom environment like for a teacher who’s undergoing a traumatic experience ? And then how will that affect their students?”
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