Under-resourced students are far more likely to suffer from the negative effects of life in unhealthy environments. Educators who understand the connection of good physical and emotional health with academic success create connections for students and their families to resources that can help to mitigate the negative impacts of poor health.
To fully support students, schools must attend to the trauma that occurs within their own institutional cultures.
By building a culture of safety in schools, we can give students and educators living with trauma the resources and support they need to thrive.
Wellness strategies like positive self-talk and mindfulness practices can help students feel calmer and more in control in this difficult year.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, California’s first surgeon general, on the impact of multigenerational adversity, SEL in the classroom, and the transformational powers of meditation.
A federal waiver expands free meal service for students during the coronavirus pandemic, and school nutrition professionals across the US are working to ensure families have access to the meals.
Are smartphones making kids less intelligent, or at least making it tougher for them to actually master the material they are studying?
2/3 of high school students get 7 hours of sleep or less on school nights. What does that mean for their mental health?
Moving our bodies is critically important to our mental health. In recent weeks, the intimate connection between physical activity and mood has become more obvious because we’re mostly confined to
When students set their own learning goals and then pursue them, demonstrating student agency, they are strengthening an important life skill, writes Chelsea Waite, a research fellow at the Christensen
Our country, our schools, and our students are facing incredible adversity right now. The COVID-19 pandemic has already produced the largest disturbance our school system has ever seen. Schools shut
