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The Dangers of SEL Assessment Data to Students with LD Social Disabilities and Autism

October 27, 2018 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Today, I would like to bring attention to the dangers of social-emotional learning assessment to a segment of our student population. The focus on behavior is becoming the new purpose of school, and that alone should raise questions. School boards, PTA’s, and school organizations should be discussing how these curriculum changes impact what and how […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: assessment, Autism, autistic spectrum, behavioral assessment, behavioral tier groups, Children, learning disabilities, school, SEL, sel behavioral assessment, social disability, Social Emotional Learning, social intereaction, students with autism

Schools, and a Country’s Children: Remembering a Gentler (Not Perfect) Past

June 28, 2018 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

This is our land. These are our children. We’re all in it together. ~Brochure for the Van Buren Intermediate School District, Project NOMAD (Needs and Objectives for Migrant Advancement and Development), 1972 and 1973. In the early seventies, as a young college student, I became an aide for two summers, in the Michigan Migrant Education […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Children, families, Michigan Migrant Education Program, NOMAD (Needs and Objectives for Migrant Advancement and Development), public schools, Refuges, Van Buren Michigan

The Sad Impact of Corporate School Reform on Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

January 26, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 7 Comments

We have a lot of troubled kids. As of 2016, approximately 1 in 5 youth aged 13–18 (21.4%) experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life. For children aged 8–15, the estimate is 13%. HERE. Schools should be on the front line to assist children and adolescents with mental health difficulties. But […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Art, Betsy DeVos, Children, Data collecting, eliminating special education services, emotional disabilities, high-stakes testing, inclusion, mental health, music, no excuses, One-size-fits-all, play, recess, Rewards, School Choice, Social Emotional Learning, Teach for America, teachers, teens

101 (And MORE) Wishes For Students in 2018—In 5 Words or Less

January 1, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 28 Comments

Provide children plenty of recess. Pay attention to child development. Cherish play for children. Encourage teens to socialize. Lower class sizes. Bring back the arts. Provide all students art instruction. Give students credentialed art teachers. Let children dance. Sing-along with students. Teach students to play instruments. Display student art in schools. Bring back school plays. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children, good schools, Happy New Year, New Year Wishes, public schools in 2018, save public schools, students

Privatizing Recess: Micromanaging Children’s Play for Profit

March 20, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 20 Comments

You might hear that school recess is returning, but it might not be the recess we have come to know and love, and miss. It is not run by the school, but by a nonprofit called “Playworks: Play and Recess to Support Emotional Learning.” I have written about social and emotional learning before. Many are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children, control, free play, Partnerships, Playworks, recess, School Partners, School Privatization

More Social-Emotional Learning Hype

August 15, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Helping children with their emotions is something teachers have done for years. Certainly, assisting children and teens with appropriate, caring behavior is an important task. And, yes, there are ways to help children feel good about who they are and what they can contribute to the world. Of course educators should address a child’s feelings […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavior, Children, Social Emotional Learning, socialization

New Social-Emotional Standards to Complement Common Core

August 6, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 41 Comments

If you thought Common Core State Standards were bad, look out! Here come the new social-emotional standards to complement Common Core—because nothing says children have feelings more than benchmarks! Today’s Common Core State Standards are aligned to high-stakes testing that closes schools and pushes good teachers out. Of course, many parents have not been happy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Behavior, Benchmarks, Children, Common Core, Online Instruction, schools, Social-Emotional Standards, Technology and Schools, Tennessee

Student Socialization in Public Schools

September 2, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Socialization you could say is how a child interacts with their peers. There are many definitions, but in school, socialization mostly involves how children play and get along with each other. We think of recess when considering socialization. We wonder how much socialization children miss when they don’t get recess. Public schools can go a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Children, Cultural Trends, Friends, Home Schools, Humanism, occupations, parents, Peer Groups, public schools, Religion, socialization, special education, students, teachers

States Lacking Mental Health Services for Kids–And Some Glimmers of Hope

June 29, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Marcie Lipsitt is a special education activist for children in Michigan, and she sent out a report about the serious loss of services there for children with mental health problems. It’s entitled, “In crisis, mentally ill children forced to wait days or weeks for hospital beds,” and includes the plight of a parent who has […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adolescents, Children, Hawthorn Center, mental health, Mental Health Services, Michigan, public schools, states

Who Owns Your Schools? In Lee County, Florida They Belong to Parents and Children

August 28, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

For years now, I’ve wondered who owns school boards. Venture philanthropists come into cash-strapped districts and suddenly parents and citizens find their voices no longer matter. Anyone with the right amount of money, well-meaning or not, can take over how schools in that district will be run and what students will learn. Is that about […]

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There should no longer be any excuse for not lowering class size, which has been proven thru rigorous research to benefit all kids but especially those who are poor. Teachers know this, parents too, but where are those who control policies in our schools? https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/9/22375692/biden-proposes-doubling-title-i-sending-high-poverty-schools

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With so many worrying about learning loss in young children, I thought it important to dig out this old post about reading. Please remember that formal reading instruction used to begin in first grade. https://nancyebailey.com/2014/02/02/setting-children-up-to-hate-reading/

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#ECE expert @RaePica1 responds to VA digital device guidelines, "Why subject our children to all the health risks of digital devices when learning w/out devices is superior? The more senses we use in the learning process, the more information we retain." https://tinyurl.com/zay4c69z

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Please join us in lifting up our dear friend @DianeRavitch who undergoes open heart surgery today. May God grant her success in this serious procedure, and full recovery and healing. @NPEaction @Network4pubEd @pastors4OKkids @pastors4kykids @pastors4tnkids @pastors4flkids

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Valerie Jablow: D.C. Has Lost a Great Education Leader, Elizabeth Davis https://dianeravitch.net/2021/04/06/valerie-jablow-d-c-has-lost-a-great-education-leader-elizabeth-davis/

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