3-2-1: How to save a relationship, the key to being open-minded, and a simple guide to self-care
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“Good habits stockpile ease. Bad habits postpone pain.”
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“Distance and time are the two wedges that separate relationships.
When it really matters, get in the car (or on the plane) and meet them face-to-face.
When you want it to last, don’t wait to talk about it. Solve it now before the gap becomes too wide.”II.
“Distance and time are the two wedges that separate relationships.
When it really matters, get in the car (or on the plane) and meet them face-to-face.
When you want it to last, don’t wait to talk about it. Solve it now before the gap becomes too wide.”
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Something I heard recently about being open-minded:
“The only bad view is the one you’re stuck in.”
The longer the shutdown, the worse for schools, education experts say
A contingency plan for the Education Department has been put in place, with 95 percent of its staffers furloughed, apart from the Federal Student Aid Office. Most of the funding designated over the summer and other money set to be released Wednesday will continue, creating some cushion for schools.
But facilities on tax-exempt federal land such as Native American reservations will feel the impact immediately, and others will be close behind.
In its plan, the department laid out services that would continue, such as student aid disbursement, funding for Title I, which goes to struggling schools, and the Individuals with Disabilities Act.
Trump Targeting Services for Multilingual Learners Leaves Gaps in Schools
Professional development for teachers of multilingual learners? Cancelled.
Newcomer centers opened to ease immigrant students’ transition to school? Closed.
Hiring new English language learner teachers? Suspended.
These are among the tangible effects of the Trump administration’s targeting services and supports that go toward educating more than 5 million English language learners in the nation’s K-12 public schools.
And there are other, more subtle changes: Many newcomer students, in light of the president’s aggressive deportation campaign, are now too afraid to answer simple questions, the type that not only shed light on their lives but give insight into their academic needs.
How the ‘Science of Reading’ Can Support English Learners
There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish.
In the Southside independent school district in San Antonio, teachers highlight these differences for their Spanish-speaking students. It’s a key part of the school system’s approach to the “science of reading.”
Teachers in the district—where about 30% of students are multilingual learners—give early elementary schoolers systematic phonics instruction, a foundational piece of early reading lessons. They teach beginning readers which letters represent which sounds and how to blend them together into words, whether they’re teaching in English, or in Spanish in the district’s dual-language program.
Want Students to Be Resilient? Try Asking Them to Fail
Be it a bombed reading quiz or a botched science experiment, at some point every student fails in school. But students with a greater fear of failure are more likely to interpret normal academic challenges as severe and have less capacity to cope with academic stress.
In the last few years, educators Jennifer Boogaart in Arkansas, Alicia Wiechert in Illinois, and Doreen Kelleher in Massachusetts have all noticed a noticed a significant rise in perfectionism among their elementary students—a “kind of a mini-pandemic,” said Boogaart, a K-5 gifted enrichment teacher at John Tyson Elementary School of Innovation in Springdale, Ark. A rising social media focus on “curating” children’s activities to focus only on success and accomplishments exacerbates the problem, they say.
Education Department opens FAFSA ahead of schedule — it’s a ‘huge win’ for college-bound students, expert says
The U.S. Department of Education opened the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form on Wednesday — one week before the anticipated Oct. 1 launch date. The early start may help more students gain college access, experts say.
Completing the FAFSA is the only way to tap federal aid money for higher education, including federal student loans, work-study and grants.
“Given the previous glitches, delays, and confusion, having the FAFSA delivered not only on time but early is a huge win,” said Rick Castellano, a spokesperson for Sallie Mae.