The Power of Strengths in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria, by co-writer, Lourdes Alvarez Oritz
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Category: Education
Using a Strengths-Based Approach: Supporting Multilingual Learners Living with Trauma, Violence and Chronic Stress
This piece was commissioned and printed by Colorin Colorado with support from the AFT and NEA and appeared Here: https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/using-strengths-based-approach-els-supporting-students-living-trauma-violence-and-chronic by Dr. Debbie Zacarian, Dr. Lourdes Alvarez-Ortiz, & Judie Haynes Using a strengths-based approach allows educators to draw upon students’ internal strengths and capacities, and it can be a particularly …
Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students living with trauma, violence & chronic stress included in Hurricane Relief Effort
Honored that ASCDs Hurricane Relief Initiative includes our book. Here is information about it from ASCD. “Purchase an ASCD book from our online store from now until October 31 and use promo code “RELIEF,” and ASCD will donate one trauma-related resource, such as Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, …
Building Partnerships Through Classroom-Based Events, Debbie Zacarian & Michael Silverstone
Building Partnerships Through Classroom-Based Events, Debbie Zacarian & Michael Silverstone In the lead article of the Sept. issue of Ed Leadership, here’s how educators can design events that make families feel welcome, share their children’s learning, and integrate the rich assets they bring. As educators, we all want to build …
Teaching to Strengths: supporting students living with trauma, violence & chronic stress
TEACHING TO STRENGTHS: SUPPORTING STUDENTS LIVING WITH TRAUMA, VIOLENCE, AND CHRONIC STRESS. (co-written with Lourdes Alvarez-Ortiz and Judie Haynes) Half the students in U.S. schools are experiencing or have experienced trauma, violence, or chronic stress. Much has been written about these students from a therapeutic perspective, especially regarding how to provide …
Data-Driven Decisions on Effective Performance Measures of English Learners
Delighted to have contributed a chapter and be included among esteemed colleagues in Shelley Wepner and Dee Gomez co-edited and much needed book. Challenges Facing Suburban Schools Promising Responses to Changing Student Populations. Many of us might not realize the rapid demographic changes that are occurring in our nation’s suburbs and …
Identifying and teaching English learners with disabilities
The nation’s #1 website serving educators and families of English Learners, Colorín Colorado, with generous funding from the National Education Association, produced a new section about identifying, assessing, and teaching English learners who may have learning disabilities. Colorín Colorado’s new website section includes four comprehensive sections including: (1) special education and ELs: challenges …
Interactions Matter: impact learning through student, classroom, family and community partnerships
by Debbie Zacarian and Michael Silverstone Whether you are an administrator, teacher or a parent–a fan of standardized testing-indexed sanctions, or an advocate for student-directed learning experiences, there is one point of agreement that we all share. We want all students to feel and be successful. For well over a …
What is a Growth Mindset and How Can It Be Applied in the Classroom?
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, founder of ‘growth mindset,’ defines the concept as believing that every student can succeed and teaching them to believe in their abilities to: (1) embrace the challenges and complexities of learning; (2) learn the positives of being persistent (3) value effort as a positive; and (4) …
Launching the Just-Right Tools for English Learners
Many are using social networking to get word out that the US Departments of Education and Justice released guidance and tools about the legal obligations of teaching English learners. Last month, the US Department of Education released an English Learner Toolkit to help state and local education agencies help English Learners (ELs) by fulfilling these obligations. The …