Last year, 38 states enacted nearly 100 laws providing additional resources to support mental wellbeing in K-12 schools. Dozens of additional school mental health bills became law this year.
Bad weather used to be the main reason schools closed until COVID, and until social media—the latter of which is now closing classrooms far more regularly than is the pandemic.
More engaging summer school programs and the return of field trips were two key initiatives that emerged as Bibb County Schools decided how to spend the latest round of COVID relief funds.
"Let's take on mental health," he said during the State of the Union address, "especially among our children, whose lives and education have been turned upside down."
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 2:00 pm ET<br><br>
In this webinar, leading experts in the field, including David Adams, CEO of Urban Assembly and Board Member at CASEL, and Joanna Smith, CEO of AllHere, will walk through what you can do right now to take a broader, better-integrated approach to addressing mental health in 2022-along with ways to meet whatever students’ needs are, including social-emotional, attendance, behavior, and course performance.
As part of the safety deal CPS reached with the Chicago Teachers Union last month, the district and the union agreed to work together to persuade more students to sign up for the in-school testing program.
As educators grapple with a new wave of behavioral problems, they should give students space to rebound without lowering expectations, a school counselor says.
