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Students crushed by stress, depression are back in class. Here’s how schools meet their needs

April 11, 2021Jay KustkaNews, usa today

By Alia Wong, Education Enterprise Reporter, USA Today A youth mental health crisis was percolating for years. Rates of anxiety and depression had been on the rise. In 2017, suicide became the second leading cause of death for people ages 10 through 24. Then came COVID-19. Americans of all ages say the pandemic has taken a toll on their mental health, but...

We Have No Idea What This Year Has Been Like for Our Kids

April 7, 2021Jay Kustkaeducation post, News, Sonya Heisters

By Sonya Heisters Deputy Director, YouthTruth One year ago, my now-kindergartener left his bustling and diverse transitional kindergarten classroom with sensory learning areas designed for academic and social skills development to set up shop in our basement laundry room for “zoom school.” Sitting to his left and right are no longer other curious children, but...

Rethinking What Constitutes Impact

March 30, 2021Jay Kustkacep, Jen Wilka, News, Phil Buchanan, Sonya Heisters

By Phil Buchanan, Sonya Kendall Heisters, and Jen Vorse Wilka Foundations and individual donors need to reconceive impact in a way that puts hearing firsthand the experiences of those they seek to help front and center. If any area illustrates this point, it is education. After all, listening to students should not be a radical...

How one school is coping with mental health: Social workers delivering technology, food and counseling to kids at home, and open office hours all day — even when school is out

February 24, 2021Jay KustkaNews, The Hechinger Report

By Javeria Salman, The Hechinger Report Several times a week, Ericka Santiago-Diaz can be found driving around her low-income, underserved school community in New Jersey’s Asbury Park with bags of school supplies, replacement technology, food and donated clothing in the back seat to deliver to students. At some homes, she translates school emails into Spanish...

Student Survey: 1 in 4 High School Seniors Had Their Post-Graduation Plans Changed by the Pandemic

February 17, 2021Jay KustkaNo CommentsNews, The 74

By Laura Fay, The 74 COVID-19 is changing what students plan to do after high school, with those more affected by the pandemic more likely to have altered their post-graduation expectations, a new student survey reveals. One in four high school seniors said their postsecondary plans had changed since the start of the pandemic, an...

Why Students Need Social-Emotional Learning Now

September 2, 2020Jay KustkaNo Commentsed week, News

By Arianna Prothero, Staff Writer, Education Week School leaders and educators are facing pressures from all quarters when it comes to starting school this fall—whether it’s trying to make up for lost learning, navigating the logistical challenges of safely opening school buildings, or steering the political challenges of closing them. All of this is taking...

Monterey Peninsula Unified School District uses student feedback to focus on adult learning

February 12, 2020Jay Kustkagrowth mindset, Katrina Schwartz, KQED, Monterey Peninsula, MPUSD, News, Pivot Learning

Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturers Deb Helsing, Robert Kegan, and Lisa Lahey found that when adults continue to learn at their jobs they are better at creating that experience for other people. Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) and Pivot Learning are putting this theory of change into practice. They began by gathering data…

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