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**This course is worth 15 continuing education contact hours or one graduate credit.** Based on a true story of trauma, Heidy LaFleur shares that kids who have been traumatized, those who are misunderstood and those who take frequent detours from what's expected need compassionate, empathetic and loving adults supporting them.Often, as educators & parents, we receive little guidance when working with special needs, distracted kids, mental illness, emotional stress, behavioral deficiencies, trauma and dysregulated children. Heidy hears you, she's got you & she will help you. This book was created for you...the teacher, mentor, parent, social worker, counselor, occupational therapist, speech therapist, physical therapist, media specialist, librarian, paraprofessional, security guard, administrator, dean, custodian, lunch staff, office staff and any other title that influences kids on a daily basis. As a teacher, assistant principal, principal and mother, Heidy has had the distinct pleasure of working with some of the most unforgettable teachers and providers in the school community. They all had several things in common. Kids loved them, gravitated to them and would do anything for them. They always had a smile on their faces (even on a bad day), were a part of every solution and enjoyed their interactions with all kids, even Those Kids. They sought out students’ interests, planned according to their needs and celebrated their accomplishments. They instilled hope, love and kindness in the classroom. They raised scores and grew students academically and socially because they cared first about relationships and second about rigor of the curriculum. Their Actions, Words and Expressions (AWE) put air in kids’ balloons and helped them soar. Building a strong environment with a foundation of social emotional well-being is what helps kids know they matter. For what we model for children is what they will produce. They get one chance and we get to help shape their stories. What a beautiful opportunity.   Book: Those Kids Are Our Kids  by Heidy LaFleur Website: https://www.heidylafleur.com/ Read more

This course is worth one graduate credit or 15 continuing education contact hours.    How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry tells their stories of trauma and transformation and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what happens to children’s brains when they are exposed to extreme stress—and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease such pain and help them grow into healthy adults. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.   BOOK: “The Boy Who Was Raised as A Dog” by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD and Maia Szalavitz,  ISBN: 978-0465094455     Read more

* This course is worth 15 continuing education contact hours (CECH) or one graduate credit.    Take a positive approach to behavior intervention for results that work―and last!  When there’s a nuclear meltdown happening in your classroom, this book is your trusted guide on what to do in the heat of the moment, and how you can prevent future incidents. These field-tested strategies integrate principles of behavioral intervention with the best practices of positive psychology. Inside you’ll find: Ready-to-use tools and guidelines Practical guidance developed from the author’s extensive experience training educators Solutions that work now and support each student’s future well-being A deliberate focus at the classroom, building, and system level   Book: "Happy Kids Don′t Punch You in the Face: A Guide to Eliminating Aggressive Behavior in School” by Ben Springer  Website: https://resources.corwin.com/happykids Read more

**This book study is worth one graduate credit of 15 continuing education contact hours.    Do the work. Do it with care. This is a book about love. That is, the active, earnest, and intelligent pursuit of our neighbors’ good. Teachers embody this kind of love; we seek and serve the wholeness of others.At the center of this love lies Dave Stuart Jr.’s philosophy that every teacher of every subject area in our schools has the potential to enrich students’ lives long-term through the power of student motivation. From art and physical education to science and social studies―schools can make good on their promise and this book will show you how. Join Stuart in this personal journey by tackling student motivation through: The Five Key Beliefs of credibility, value, effort, efficacy, and belonging. Ten strategies for incorporating the Five Key Beliefs into everyday teaching. Common struggles for each strategy and how to overcome them. A companion website with additional resources, videos, and downloadables. Do the work. Do it with care. These inspirational guideposts will help us all build a world in which all schools can be both productive and humane.   Book: The Will to Learn: Cultivating Student Motivation Without Losing Your Own By Dave Stuart Websites:  Dave Stuart Jr. WTL Companion Page DSJR: Get Better at Teaching   Read more

* This course is worth either 30 continuing education contact hours (CECH) or two graduate credits.    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 Website: https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/book Read more

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