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| ISSN Pending | September 19, 2005 | Volume I, Issue 1 |
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Greetings from SCORE! Dear Educator, When I brought a problem to my friend and mentor, Fred Lange, he would quickly ask, “What do you want to do about it?” If I didn’t have a proposed solution, we weren't ready yet to talk. Life is too short to spend it celebrating, “Ain’t it awful?”…unless that discussion leads to a creative solution. As I listen to news of Katrina, what intrigues me is the great creativity and generosity of children who are generating a solution:
Managing crises was not what I intended to send for this premiere edition of SCORE news, school year 2005-2006. But, alas, crises seem to keep coming so we must keep learning creative ways to respond. In this issue, look for crisis guidelines, excerpted and adapted from our book, Crisis, Grief, and Loss…and How to Help Your Students Through It. The staff of SCORE is saddened by the recent devastation of Hurricane Katrina. We are donating complimentary copies of our book Crisis, Grief, and Loss...and How to Help Your Students Through It and highlighter pens through the U.S. Department of Education. Please visit the U.S. Department of Education web site to see how you, too, can help our children: http://www.ed.gov/news/hurricane/org-form.html In the meantime, may you lead with dignity those creative and energetic beings who will take your place in just a few short years!
May this be the best and most creative year you’ve ever had! May all your classes be your favorite! May all your students SCORE...for college, and for life! For Kids! Sharon Marshall Lockett, Director |
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In times of change, learners inherit the earth,
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In Times of Crisis... Excerpted from Crisis, Grief, and Loss...and How to Help Your Students Through It Encourage academics. Do not ignore the crisis; but keep students focused on academics. Academics is our job. Encourage options. Allow flexibility in your projects. Written assignments, for example, may deal with reactions to the crisis at hand and parallels between your topic, our current crisis, and our students’ personal experiences. Encourage hope. The human spirit is incredibly and wonderfully resilient. We hurt; we’re angry; we’re afraid. But we will overcome! Encourage help. Allow your classes to write letters to the families of the deceased. Allow projects that provide food, clothing, and shelter for victims. Endorse related humanitarian projects such as helping at a food kitchen. Encourage healing. Allow students to talk and write about their emotions. Also allow them to periodically ignore what has happened and focus on their passion. Encourage health. Use the crisis as an incentive to increase substance abuse prevention programs. Use your study skills curriculum to help them channel and deal with anger constructively. Encourage truth. Keep students informed and squelch the rumor mill. Keep obsessions with the gory details to a minimum, but tell the truth. We have a huge capacity to imagine horror scenarios when we don’t know what is happening. We also have a huge capacity to deal with what is real in creative, constructive ways. |
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Crisis, Grief, and Loss…and How to Help Your Students Through It: November 30, 2005 Crises are a part of everyone’s life; everyone, at times, needs help. Crises, although traumatic, are not an excuse for failure.
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Crisis, Grief, and Loss...and How to Help Your Students Through It At any given time, between 30% and 100% of our students can be somewhere in the grief process. When they are in crisis, their behavior and their capacity to learn changes. Our techniques for reaching them must change too. This book provides crisis intervention techniques, referral procedures, a synopsis of research on the grief process, principles for helping students through crisis, and a bibliography for classroom teachers, counselors, tutors, and parents to use in the aftermath of crisis. Every teacher should have a copy. It is written around 4 topics:
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