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14 Scary Monsters Children Face On Halloween and Beyond, Affecting Their Schooling

October 31, 2021 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Teachers and public schools might be blamed when children have trouble learning. But many variables affect how children do in school, and most are out of a teacher’s control. Support public education and teachers to help families and children make schooling a worthwhile experience. Schools should be an anchor in the community for children and […]

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The Loss That Matters This Mother’s Day

May 9, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

The loss important to understand this year, the most critical loss, is not learning loss. It involves the loss many children are facing after losing a mom or dad to Covid-19. Or it could be a grandma or grandpa, a beloved aunt or uncle, or sister or brother, even a friend. On this Mother’s Day, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children, counselors, covid-19, grief, help, Mother's Day, Mother's Day Loss, pandemic, school, school loss, School Psychologists, teachers

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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 5 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 […]

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nancyebailey1 Nancy E. Bailey @nancyebailey1 ·
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The focus should be on lifting traditional public schools & reading programs for many students who attend those schools rather than on unproven private and charter schools. Fix IDEA by increasing options. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/01/29/reading-disabilities-focus-on-public-schools-not-school-choice/

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arizona_sos Save Our Schools AZ @arizona_sos ·
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Special interests call ESA vouchers “scholarships” because private schools select their students. It’s not “school choice,” it’s the school’s choice 😡#AZVoucherWatch #VouchersHurt #FundOurSchools

http://bit.ly/SellingSchoolChoice

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danwuori Dan Wuori @danwuori ·
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On-demand standardized testing has no place in kindergarten. There are far more appropriate and meaningful methods of assessing young children. https://twitter.com/reimagschool/status/1619665302450753536

David Locke @ReimagSchool

My wife's Kindergarten students felt very stressed and were crying when they had to take a standardized test. When she reported this to administrators their solution was "test them until they cry, and then stop." #testthemtiltheycry #resisttesting

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drbradjohnson 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @drbradjohnson ·
28 Jan

Besides the many issues with standardized testing. Most students have no idea what they missed on the tests and teachers don't either. And by time they get results students have moved on to next grade. Making it useless to evaluate teachers & districts too.

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ichrislehman Christopher Lehman 🤪 @ichrislehman ·
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One of many absurd theories coming out of states like VA is that reading must be taught from a packaged curriculum followed with fidelity.

I have never ever ever worked with a curriculum that didn’t need to be slightly or completely revised to meet the needs of actual students.

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