For Teachers & Principals
The US’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention has produced an excellent strategy guide: School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth (PDF). Families, schools and communities all need to work together to create an environment...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Adolescence and School Health Videos These videos provide valuable information about taking a school health approach. Investing in Student Health – The Importance of Partnerships – The video outlines how...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
As the ongoing pandemic brings into sharp focus the ways kids are learning (or not), Next City looks at self-directed education, which respects each student’s passions, encourages self-sufficiency and turns the city into a classroom. The story about the United States...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
The medical journal The Lancet has examined the impact of social distancing on adolescents. The summary points out that young people between the ages of 10 and 24 need to interact face-to-face with their peers to develop fully, both behaviourally and neurologically....
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
This article is a good reminder to focus kids’ activities on play, physical exercise, the arts (music, drama, art, movement, etc.) as therapeutic outlets. Reopen schools with a ‘golden age of play’ Excerpt: When the novel coronavirus is no longer as...
