Today, we call learners 'digital natives', and they are beyond prepared to navigate the 4th Industrial Revolution in the 21st Century. Educators will have to revisit their training and endeavor to align their strategies to meet students where they are to help them get where they want to go. We have experienced the 1st Industrial [...]
Why ALL Students Are “AT-RISK”
The label: "at risk" student.... What does this concept look like? Who does it look like, and do we know when, where or how to make this determination? The term at-risk is often used to describe students or groups of students who are considered to have a higher probability of failing academically or dropping out of school. [...]
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DIGITAL INNOVATION & FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
Harvard Family Research Project[HFRP], has discovered that there are programs out there that are taking family engagement to the next level. In fact, HFRP has an upcoming release of Quilting Stories of Innovation in Family Engagement in which they have collected an array of success stories in family engagement practices and programs from around the country. A [...]
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How Anxiety and Panic Attacks Are Linked to Vitamin Deficiencies
With approximately 40 million adults across the United States experiencing anxiety each year, scientists and researchers have dedicated their careers to trying to better understand this condition. Despite this work, we are still somewhat unclear on what actually causes this condition to occur. Characterized by feelings of nervousness and restlessness, increased heart rate, hyperventilation, sweating, trembling, difficulty concentrating [...]
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Child Marriages Of Boys On A Devastating Rise
Throughout history and until the 20th Century, child marriages were the norm. These unions were made a 'norm' for many reasons, chief among them are economic. When most people think of child marriages, they often focus on girls. This is usually because girls are most affected. However, boys also marry in childhood, and a recent [...]
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How Promoting Resilience is Harmful to African-American Families
Resilience theory suggests that we are to encourage successful adaptations to negative life events, trauma, stress, and other forms of risk. In other words, in the face of adversity, we promote people to perform at optimal or 'normal' adaptive levels and work through these situations, events and circumstances. Many African-American families in the United States deal [...]
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Parenting A Child With A Difficult Temperament
All children are born with individual temperament. This is your child's preferred style of relating and responding to people and events. There are 3 behavior clusters which categorize that some babies are easy, some are slow to warm up, and others are difficult. All babies and children demand time and attention, besides unconditional love. But, [...]
