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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2021 - For Teachers

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Let’s join together in celebrating, uplifting, and recognizing the stories and voices of Asian Pacific Americans. Hate is not welcome in our classrooms, but sometimes it is hard to know where to begin supporting these efforts. This website is dedicated to bringing effective, affordable, and accurate resources to your classroom. Browse from The Library of Congress to the National Archives and more. Design your own lessons, borrow theirs, or do a combination of the two.

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NEB Weighs In: Schools Reopening

Schools in Long Beach, Calif., Start Reopening This Week Schools are reopening nationwide, and back here in Rhode Island teachers and students are facing the same safe return roadblocks in the article above. With only part of the staff vaccinated, many teachers are still opting out of in person learning. Parents, who have set up a distance learning schedule, are also tasked now with weighing whether to return or keep what’s working. More arduous than that will be how we address the emotional toll this past year has had on students. Right now, we’re discussing what programming will be most effective for prioritizing SEL in the schools we serve. Teachers and parents are beginning to express concern over how students will adjust to this return, what anxiety will be lingering, or what grief will have to be processed. To join the discussion, or ask about programming for your community next year, reach out to us at nebpd@nebasecamp.org or get involved in ...

Teacher Spotlight: Jessica Tuttle of North Smithfield High School

Who I am… My name is Jessica Tuttle and I am a high school English teacher at North Smithfield High School in North Smithfield, RI. Although I have been teaching in NS for 6 years, I have been an English and Writing Teacher for 21 years. For 15 years, I was a college professor and a member of the English Departments at the University of Rhode Island and Salve Regina University. Although I loved teaching college students, I decided to become certified in Secondary Ed English because I knew my experience at the college level would benefit high school students for the demands of college writing. I also longed to be a part of students’ daily lives, which was a facet that was missing with college students since they were only with me for a short amount of time and only for a couple days during the week. What drives me as an English teacher is allowing students the opportunity to explore themselves through literature, and by reading other writers, giving t...

Mental Health Awareness Post

Are Schools Ready to Tackle the Mental Health Crisis? (Walker, 2018) Revisiting this pre-pandemic article with a post-pandemic lens highlights the urgency of an intentional approach to mental health in schools. The past two years have been full of immeasurable loss, trauma, and grief for students, families, and communities nationwide. What was described as a mental health “crisis” prior to the pandemic can only be considered an emergency as we navigate our new reality. This article’s emphasis on proactive, sustaining support frameworks and partnerships between teachers, mental health providers, community, and family members inspires us to consider the possibilities for schools and districts in the coming months. Now that we have borne witness to the destructive potential of the gaps in our social safety nets, we have a unique chance to re-envision our schools. We envision schools that provide proactive, systematic mental health support for all students, and leverage the collective wis...

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