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Some essential summer reading here as you log back in for the year.... https://lnkd.in/gqy2uRJX I would also add this report released on 21 Dec 2023 re Child maltreatment and criminal justice system involvement in Australia from Ben Mathews Nina Papalia et al under the Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS). Link here: https://lnkd.in/gNAk9iC5 TLDR: 1. The study explores associations between child maltreatment and self-reported criminal justice system involvement in Australia, providing a population-based overview. 2. Child maltreatment, including chronic multi-type maltreatment, is linked to an increased risk of arrest, with almost one in six maltreated individuals reporting an arrest history. 3. Men are more likely to have justice system involvement than women, and the association between maltreatment and lifetime arrest appears to occur earlier for men than women. 4. Associations between child maltreatment and deeper levels of justice system involvement, such as convictions and imprisonment, are consistently observed for men, but not as clear for women. NB: The study acknowledges limitations, including potential underestimates and the need for further modeling to explore confounding factors + causality.

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As we head back into a new school year, we are sharing a piece on our blog by Chance Las Dulce: “Shared Perspectives: Empowering Classroom Communities for Important Conversations”. “The most important component to the foundation of a classroom is an authentic and caring relationship with our students. To establish this, we need to re-imagine our classrooms and educational spaces.” Click through to read more. https://hubs.la/Q02LbQwc0

During the hieight of the pandemic and a crazy election season, my work challenged all of us to do a “random act of kindness” just to combat all the negativity. This actually changed my life!!! I did two things: 1. Sent flowers to a coworker who was amazing 💐2. Gifted a bunch of new books to a local 3rd grade classroom. 📚 I basically just never stopped doing the 2nd one!! Lift Literaure started because of that first book donation. I learned how many children are not meeting critical reading milestones in elementary school and how that affects their ENTIRE lives. I learned about “book deserts” and “low print homes” and how important it is to get books to high need families. How something this small can make a BIG difference. This week, we worked on refreshing many of the nonfiction early reader books in local schools that are 30+ years old! Think animals, art, sports, etc. Think replacing Mia Hamm books with Simone Biles. It’s been a while… We’ve gifted thousands of amazing books to local schools and students!!! You never know what an impact a random act of kindness can have!

The importance of summer reading, reading lists for K-8 students, and how you can help combat Denver students’ summer slide. Learn more from the Reading Partners segment on KUSA-TV, 9NEWS Colorado & Company📚 https://lnkd.in/giYhx5mg K-8 Reading List: https://lnkd.in/ghrAg-n3

Tawanna Rusk, Associate Head of School, gives parents great insight into the emotions and worries they experience through each stage of their child's life. Read this inspirational new blog in "#WingTips." https://hubs.li/Q02pmlV20

We need tools like this in the hands of more parents. Kids will soon be building the homes that future generations will be able to afford and be able to maintain. The last 40+ years we’ve been taught that construction is just what some young BOYS do when they can’t make it in college. Kids from privilege were taught that buying, renting, flipping and building with the least expensive materials and labor is how you get others to do the physical work while you extract value from a community that you don’t even live in. We inherited a playbook to set the table for a housing crisis, labor crisis, energy crisis, affordability crisis and deeper “class” lines that we are now dealing with. By equipping ALL children with a fresh vision of HOW to build and WHO can build, we are setting them up with power to both address the problems they will inherit from us and see a different path for the future they will pass on.

Watch this brief video (00:28) to see an example of a Global Early Education classroom's representation of "the silent teacher."   Every single child, ages 3-5, has the right to this level of high-quality early childhood education, regardless!   There's much more to come, so follow our Page!

TODAY'S BLOG: My Adult Ed Lecture & Good Questions There were great questions asked in my latest adult ed class last week. Today's blog will share two of them and news about the next semester! CLICK LINK FOR STORY: https://lnkd.in/eEUYay29

LIGHT SENSITIVITY: Discrimination Beth "I also had sensory issues too which affected me during my time at school, such as not being able to read whiteboards/white paper and worksheets, since the white would reflect the light of the room and makes things so bright it was like trying to read while someone was shining a torch in your eye." https://lnkd.in/gSTiZ6gP. Excerpt from my PhD thesis:- "Negation of light sensitivity is like racism, a consequence of systemic cultural practices. Salter, Adams, and Perez in their discussion of systemic racism, suggest changing the water not the fish.[i] Similarly, light is the environment in which students swim or sink, and it is preferable to change toxic light rather than trying to change the student.[ii] However, school students, even if they are aware that light in the classroom bothers them, lack the resources to protest. Furthermore, low literacy levels have been associated with ‘learning difficulty’, thus both school students and adults in tertiary institutions are reluctant to complain about difficulty with reading in particular lighting conditions. This legacy of a cultural belief reinforces strategies of agenda denial. The concept of ‘learning difficulty’ is locked-in and the concept of light sensitivity is locked out. “Something is stuck at the cognitive level”[iii] and this cognitive barrier impedes setting people with Light Sensitivity on a government agenda. Dr Jacqui Shepherd, Michelle Lansdowne MBA, Guy Kornetzki, Dr Shelley James - The Light Lady, Light Aware [i] Phia S. Salter, Glenn Adams, and Michael J. Perez, “Racism in the Structure of Everyday Worlds: A Cultural-Psychological Perspective,” Association for Psychological Science 27, no. 3 (2018). [ii] Mogas-Recalde and Palau, “Classroom Lighting.” [iii] Kim van Nieuwaal, “Institutional Path Dependence: A Resistance to Controversies,” in The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, eds. Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).