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  Overwhelmed teachers, this book is for you. The truth is that you can be remarkable without burning out. Drawing from the latest research and her own teaching experiences, author Morgane Michael delivers doable strategies to reignite your passion and replenish your well-being. Make a commitment today to begin a new chapter--one where you continue to make a difference while maintaining a deep sense of wellness, worthiness, and wholeheartedness. Learn why burnout happens and what you can do to thrive once again. Explore the five Rs--reflect, reframe, refocus, reconnect, and reveal--and understand how each can help counter burnout. Acquire a clear road map for reigniting your love for teaching. Inspire others to reignite their own passion for education. Discover how to sustain your passion and avoid burnout going forward.       Book: “From Burnt Out to Fired Up: Reigniting Your Passion for Teaching” by Morgane Michael                     ISBN-10: 1952812631                     ISBN-13: 978-1952812637 Website: https://www.solutiontree.com/from-burnt-out-to-fired-up.html Read more

This course is worth 5 continuing education contact hours (CECH).  In this course, educators will learn how secondary traumatic stress, also called compassion fatigue, manifests and how to practice self-care to minimize or prevent secondary traumatic stress. Pre-Assessment Course Objectives Lesson Introduction Definition of Trauma Prevalence of Trauma in Schools Check for Understanding: Quiz What is Secondary Trauma? Check for Understanding: Quiz Secondary Trauma: Prevention & Intervention Check for Understanding: Quiz Congratulations - this segment will tell you how to retrieve your certificate. SDEA requires you to submit a brief reflection and survey. Once the reflection has been reviewed, your certificate will be emailed to you. You may choose to use the journaling prompts provided or write a one-page reflection on what you learned and how you will apply it to your teaching practice.    **Please note that there are a few broken links in this course, but they do not affect the quality of the content.  Read more

  After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?   In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.   Most importantly, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.   Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.   Book: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt                     ISBN-10: 0241694906                     ISBN-13: 978-0241694909 Read more

* If you are new to BRIDGE, you must create an account and take the mandatory Introduction course before adding courses to your cart.  Podcast PD is an asynchronous and new format for professional development and learning that is being offered by SDEA. You listen and reflect as time allows without having to meet weekly deadlines, meet in person, or access Zoom meetings.   Podcast PD allows educators to make personal choices for their learning based on their content area and professional interests while helping them to earn up to five credits.   With five different podcasts to choose from you can choose any of the sessions that relate to education, professional interest, content that work for you. Each session requires a reflection paper. Participants can mix and match podcasts to meet the requirements for credit.   The five podcasts that can be used for credit: School ME neaToday Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers Podcast The Cult of Pedagogy The Resilient Teacher Podcast with host Brittany Blackwell, M.Ed. Special Education for Beginners with Jennifer Hofferber Read more

This course is worth 5 continuing education contact hours (CECH).  Many students are impacted by trauma, and educators need to understand how experiencing traumatic events can manifest in a variety of student behaviors. In this course, you will learn about the physiological, psychological, and behavioral impact of trauma on students and how to work with your multi-tiered support system (MTSS) in your school to support learners with trauma.   Pre-Assessment Course Objectives How Trauma Affects the Brain Trauma and Academic Performance Impact of Trauma Trauma-Sensitive Tiered Intervention Strategies Programs and Services to Support Students who Experience Trauma School Systems that Support Students who Experience Trauma Ethical and Legal Considerations Congratulations - this segment will tell you how to retrieve your certificate. SDEA requires you to submit a brief reflection and survey. Once the reflection has been reviewed, your certificate will be emailed to you.  Read more

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