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"content": "\u003cp>In recent weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalidcmd.com/about-me\">Dr. Kali Cyrus\u003c/a> has struggled with periods of exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am taking a nap in between patients,\" says Cyrus, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University. \"I'm going to bed earlier. It's hard to even just get out of bed. I don't feel like being active again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exhaustion is also one of the top complaints she hears from her patients these days. They say things like, \"It's just so hard to get out of bed\" or \"I've been misplacing things more often,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some patients tell Cyrus they've been making mistakes at work. Some tell her they can \"barely turn on the TV. 'All I want to do is stare at the ceiling.' \" Others say they are more irritable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health care providers around the U.S. are hearing similar complaints. And many providers, like Cyrus, are feeling it themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of mental fog is real and can have a few different causes. But at the root of it are the stress and trauma of the past year, say Cyrus and other mental health experts. It's a normal reaction to a very abnormal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many people will likely continue to struggle with mental health symptoms in the long run, \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19403217/\">research on past mass traumas\u003c/a> suggests that most people will recover once the coronavirus pandemic ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that the majority of people tend to be resilient,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/research/action/speaking-of-psychology/stress-discrimination\">Lynn Bufka\u003c/a>, a psychologist with the American Psychological Association. \"They may have struggled during the time of the challenges but generally come out OK on the other end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Bufka and other experts say that there are things we can do now to fight the mental fog and exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How stress and sleep are linked\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Exhaustion can be a symptom of many things,\" says Cyrus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, it can be a symptom of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know from \u003ca href=\"https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-14-118\">other research \u003c/a>that people will talk about fatigue as something that they experience when they're feeling overstressed,\" says Bufka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/11/coronavirus-pandemic-stress\">recent survey\u003c/a> by the American Psychological Association found that 3 in 4 Americans said that the pandemic is a significant source of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of people have lost loved ones, have become ill themselves and/or have lost income as a result of the pandemic. The threat of COVID-19 alone has been stressful for most people, as has all of the upheaval that the pandemic has brought, says Bufka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stress \"keeps our mind vigilant and our nervous system vigilant, and that uses more energy,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://profiles.ucsf.edu/elissa.epel\">Elissa Epel\u003c/a>, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco. That's one reason that prolonged stress can leave us feeling drained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another way that chronic stress makes us feel exhausted is by interfering with sleep, says Bufka. \"When we're feeling stressed, our sleep can get disrupted, which naturally leads to feelings of tiredness and exhaustion,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We really rely on sleep to recover each day,\" explains Epel. \"And so for many of us, even though we might think we're sleeping the same number of hours, it's not the same quality. It doesn't have the same restorative ability, because we're getting less deep sleep, and we think that is tied to this chronic, subtle uncertainty, stress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chronic stress also triggers \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24608036/\">low-grade inflammation\u003c/a>, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have this inflammatory response when we're feeling severe states of stress that can last. It's subtle, it's low grade and it can absolutely cause fatigue and a worse mood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A year of anxiety, grief and trauma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fatigue and fog so many are feeling now also could be symptoms of other mental health issues that flared over the last year, says \u003ca href=\"https://psychiatry.wustl.edu/people/jessica-gold-md-ms/\">Dr. Jessica Gold\u003c/a>, a psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis. \"After this long, most people have had some degree of anxiety, depression, trauma, something,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7013e2.htm\">studies\u003c/a> have shown, rates of anxiety and depression in the population have gone up during the course of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term anxiety can also exhaust the body, says Gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We evolved as creatures, people that run from predators in the animal kingdom, right? To have anxiety as a way to predict and run from threat,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we're anxious, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/emotional-health/the-science-of-anxiety\">our hearts race and our muscles tense up\u003c/a> as we prepare to fight a predator or run from it. But \"you can only run a 100-yard dash for a short amount of time. Not a year, and not a year where they keep moving the finish line,\" says Gold. \"We can't do that. Eventually our muscles and our body say, 'No, I'm tired.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise in symptoms of anxiety and depression, which include exhaustion, is a predictable response to the trauma of the pandemic, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/sandro-galea/\">Dr. Sandro Galea\u003c/a>, dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The definition of a trauma is an event that threatens people's sense of safety and stability,\" which this pandemic is, he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of us are grieving the loss of life as we knew it, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/jennifer-payne\">Dr. Jennifer Payne\u003c/a>, director of the Women's Mood Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins. \"We're just in a completely different world right now,\" she says. \"A lot of things are not going to go back to the way they were. And so that causes grief and is a normal reaction to a big change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the trauma is much bigger for individuals directly affected by the pandemic, says Galea — for instance, those who've lost loved ones or who had COVID-19, lost a job or housing, or struggled with child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people have been hit so hard — and are so worn down — that \"they are having trouble coming back from this,\" says Cyrus, the Johns Hopkins psychiatrist, whose patients are mostly people of color and/or queer. Black and Latino communities in particular have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/23/914427907/as-pandemic-deaths-add-up-racial-disparities-persist-and-in-some-cases-worsen\">disproportionately affected by the pandemic and its fallout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people in these communities will likely struggle with more mental and physical health issues in the long run, notes Galea, and need access to mental health care and greater support to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steps to take now\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people, the relaxing social activities that can help buffer against stress and anxiety — like seeing friends or going out to dinner — are not yet reality, due to uneven vaccination rates. So what can we do now to help recharge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payne, of Johns Hopkins' Women's Mood Disorders Center, encourages people to keep in mind all of the usual things that help during stressful times: exercise, a healthy diet, going outdoors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/23/927134772/when-the-headlines-wont-stop-here-s-how-to-cope-with-anxiety\">limiting news consumption\u003c/a>. And engage in relaxing activities often, like a hobby you love, listening to or watching something funny, or reading books you enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If these diversions aren't working for you now, she recommends trying a change of scenery if you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Payne, who lives in Baltimore, that meant staying at her parents' home in West Virginia for three nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was not a very exciting trip, but we got away and it was a completely different environment. And I didn't have any projects around the house that I could do other than reading or listening to a podcast, sleeping, eating,\" Payne says. \"And that was really, really renewing for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Cyrus, who is also at Johns Hopkins, says some of her patients say their normal coping strategies aren't working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because we are running on an emptier gas tank than usual, she says. \"Your coping strategies that might be able to refill you a certain percent, [but now] you're starting lower. So it's not quite getting you where you need to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that's the case for you, try changing up your routine, Payne says. \"If you're walking every day and that's no longer helping, you try biking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-care is important, notes Gold of Washington University. \"Take the vacation time you need,\" she recommends. \"Make sure that you're taking care of yourself in the short and long term.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she adds, \"there's no wrong time to go talk to someone.\" If you can't get an appointment with a therapist, talk to a friend or co-worker, she suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that because so many people are struggling with this and because it is so normal, everybody has something to say,\" says Gold. \"If we could just get to the point where we could be talking about the stuff more openly, we'd feel a lot less alone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling more connected can help ease some of our stress and related exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Payne encourages trying to find things to be grateful for. Research shows that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/24/678232331/if-you-feel-thankful-write-it-down-its-good-for-your-health\">gratitude journaling\u003c/a> lifts your mood and is good for your mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can always find things to be grateful for,\" says Payne. \"It's springtime and the days are starting to be beautiful and the trees are blossoming, and really thinking about that and admiring the trees, for example, can make you feel really grateful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acceptance and self-compassion will also help, notes Gold. \"We have to be able to give ourselves a little bit of grace,\" she says. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of mental fog is real and can have a few different causes. But at the root of it are the stress and trauma of the past year, say Cyrus and other mental health experts. It's a normal reaction to a very abnormal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many people will likely continue to struggle with mental health symptoms in the long run, \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19403217/\">research on past mass traumas\u003c/a> suggests that most people will recover once the coronavirus pandemic ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that the majority of people tend to be resilient,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/research/action/speaking-of-psychology/stress-discrimination\">Lynn Bufka\u003c/a>, a psychologist with the American Psychological Association. \"They may have struggled during the time of the challenges but generally come out OK on the other end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Bufka and other experts say that there are things we can do now to fight the mental fog and exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How stress and sleep are linked\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Exhaustion can be a symptom of many things,\" says Cyrus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, it can be a symptom of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know from \u003ca href=\"https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-244X-14-118\">other research \u003c/a>that people will talk about fatigue as something that they experience when they're feeling overstressed,\" says Bufka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/11/coronavirus-pandemic-stress\">recent survey\u003c/a> by the American Psychological Association found that 3 in 4 Americans said that the pandemic is a significant source of stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of people have lost loved ones, have become ill themselves and/or have lost income as a result of the pandemic. 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It doesn't have the same restorative ability, because we're getting less deep sleep, and we think that is tied to this chronic, subtle uncertainty, stress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chronic stress also triggers \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24608036/\">low-grade inflammation\u003c/a>, she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have this inflammatory response when we're feeling severe states of stress that can last. It's subtle, it's low grade and it can absolutely cause fatigue and a worse mood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A year of anxiety, grief and trauma\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fatigue and fog so many are feeling now also could be symptoms of other mental health issues that flared over the last year, says \u003ca href=\"https://psychiatry.wustl.edu/people/jessica-gold-md-ms/\">Dr. Jessica Gold\u003c/a>, a psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis. \"After this long, most people have had some degree of anxiety, depression, trauma, something,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7013e2.htm\">studies\u003c/a> have shown, rates of anxiety and depression in the population have gone up during the course of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term anxiety can also exhaust the body, says Gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We evolved as creatures, people that run from predators in the animal kingdom, right? To have anxiety as a way to predict and run from threat,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we're anxious, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/emotional-health/the-science-of-anxiety\">our hearts race and our muscles tense up\u003c/a> as we prepare to fight a predator or run from it. But \"you can only run a 100-yard dash for a short amount of time. Not a year, and not a year where they keep moving the finish line,\" says Gold. \"We can't do that. Eventually our muscles and our body say, 'No, I'm tired.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise in symptoms of anxiety and depression, which include exhaustion, is a predictable response to the trauma of the pandemic, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/sandro-galea/\">Dr. Sandro Galea\u003c/a>, dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The definition of a trauma is an event that threatens people's sense of safety and stability,\" which this pandemic is, he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of us are grieving the loss of life as we knew it, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/jennifer-payne\">Dr. Jennifer Payne\u003c/a>, director of the Women's Mood Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins. \"We're just in a completely different world right now,\" she says. \"A lot of things are not going to go back to the way they were. And so that causes grief and is a normal reaction to a big change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the trauma is much bigger for individuals directly affected by the pandemic, says Galea — for instance, those who've lost loved ones or who had COVID-19, lost a job or housing, or struggled with child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people have been hit so hard — and are so worn down — that \"they are having trouble coming back from this,\" says Cyrus, the Johns Hopkins psychiatrist, whose patients are mostly people of color and/or queer. Black and Latino communities in particular have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/23/914427907/as-pandemic-deaths-add-up-racial-disparities-persist-and-in-some-cases-worsen\">disproportionately affected by the pandemic and its fallout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people in these communities will likely struggle with more mental and physical health issues in the long run, notes Galea, and need access to mental health care and greater support to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steps to take now\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many people, the relaxing social activities that can help buffer against stress and anxiety — like seeing friends or going out to dinner — are not yet reality, due to uneven vaccination rates. So what can we do now to help recharge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payne, of Johns Hopkins' Women's Mood Disorders Center, encourages people to keep in mind all of the usual things that help during stressful times: exercise, a healthy diet, going outdoors and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/23/927134772/when-the-headlines-wont-stop-here-s-how-to-cope-with-anxiety\">limiting news consumption\u003c/a>. And engage in relaxing activities often, like a hobby you love, listening to or watching something funny, or reading books you enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If these diversions aren't working for you now, she recommends trying a change of scenery if you can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Payne, who lives in Baltimore, that meant staying at her parents' home in West Virginia for three nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was not a very exciting trip, but we got away and it was a completely different environment. And I didn't have any projects around the house that I could do other than reading or listening to a podcast, sleeping, eating,\" Payne says. \"And that was really, really renewing for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Cyrus, who is also at Johns Hopkins, says some of her patients say their normal coping strategies aren't working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because we are running on an emptier gas tank than usual, she says. \"Your coping strategies that might be able to refill you a certain percent, [but now] you're starting lower. So it's not quite getting you where you need to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that's the case for you, try changing up your routine, Payne says. \"If you're walking every day and that's no longer helping, you try biking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-care is important, notes Gold of Washington University. \"Take the vacation time you need,\" she recommends. \"Make sure that you're taking care of yourself in the short and long term.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, she adds, \"there's no wrong time to go talk to someone.\" If you can't get an appointment with a therapist, talk to a friend or co-worker, she suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that because so many people are struggling with this and because it is so normal, everybody has something to say,\" says Gold. \"If we could just get to the point where we could be talking about the stuff more openly, we'd feel a lot less alone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feeling more connected can help ease some of our stress and related exhaustion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Payne encourages trying to find things to be grateful for. 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"content": "\u003cp>In Jasmine Williams' family, graduating from the University of Michigan is a rite of passage. Her parents met on the campus, and her older sister graduated from the school a few years ago. She remembers sitting bundled up in the family section for that graduation. \"It was overwhelming to feel so many people that proud,\" she says, \"I remember sitting there watching her, and that was probably the first time I was like, 'OK, yeah, I like this. I can't wait to do this.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Williams' own graduation will look a bit different. The main undergraduate ceremony will be all virtual, though the university has \u003ca href=\"https://commencement.umich.edu/commencement-experience/\">invited students to watch that ceremony\u003c/a> from the football stadium on campus known as the Big House. 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"content": "\u003cp>Kai Humphrey, 9, has been learning from home for more than a year. He badly misses his Washington, D.C., elementary school, along with his friends and the bustle of the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will be the first person ever to have every single person in the world as my friend,\" he said on a recent Zoom call, his sandy brown hair hanging down to his shoulder blades. From Kai, this kind of proclamation doesn't feel like bragging, more like exuberant kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Kai's school recently invited him back, he refused. That's because his worry list is long, topped by his fear of getting COVID-19 and giving it to his 2-year-old sister, Alaina. She was born with a heart condition, Down syndrome and a fragile immune system. To her, the disease poses a mortal threat, and he is her protector, the only one who can make her giggle breathlessly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kai also worries about being separated from his mom, Rashida Humphrey-Wall. His biological father died in 2014, and she remains his rock, his mama bear and occasional taekwondo partner. He sometimes visits her bedside, in the middle of the night, just to check on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57721\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57721\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_05_slide-8f1a45271ac12891eb1e6f579ff35b4bd7696126-scaled-e1619077382264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai worries he could give COVID-19 to his 2-year-old sister, Alaina. She was born with a heart condition, Down syndrome and a fragile immune system. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This pandemic has been stressful for millions of children like Kai. Some have lost a loved one to COVID-19, and many families have lost jobs, their homes and even reliable access to food. If that stress isn't buffered by caring adults, it can have lifelong consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kids have had extended exposure to chaos, crisis and uncertainty,\" says Matt Biel, a child psychiatrist at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's some good news for kids like Kai: Educators across the country say their top priority right now isn't doubling down on math or reading — it's helping students manage all of this pandemic-driven stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If kids don't return to school and get a lot of attention paid to security, safety, predictability and re-establishing of strong, secure relationships, [they] are not gonna be able to make up ground academically,\" Biel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Promoting mental wellness in the classroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reestablish relationships in the classroom — and help kids cope with the stress and trauma of the past year — mental health experts say educators can start by building in time every day, for every student, in every classroom to share their feelings and learn the basics of naming and managing their emotions. Think morning circle time or, for older students, homeroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Hernandez Middle School in Chicago, teacher Lilian Sackett starts off each day by checking in with students, then diving into a short lesson on mindfulness and other social-emotional skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is in a predominantly Latino area that was hit hard by the pandemic, Sackett says. She teaches English as a second language, and she learned early on that many of her students' families were dealing with a lot of stress related to job losses and illness — that's on top of any trauma that may have \u003cem>predated \u003c/em>the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to allow the students to share their experiences with the pandemic and to give them that safe space [to] talk about it,\" Sackett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, she says, children can benefit a lot from just a few minutes each day of classwide\u003cem> calm\u003c/em>. When she found out her students love Bob Ross and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/08/29/490923502/the-real-bob-ross-meet-the-meticulous-artist-behind-those-happy-trees\">tranquil, televised painting lessons\u003c/a> from the 1980s and '90s, Sackett decided to work him into their morning routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_06_slide-efbed2c9acc41fcdc8666e08eb5a210b441e9dcc-scaled-e1619077426812.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rashida Humphrey-Wall is a longtime nurse who recently began a new job — on top of her already full-time job of parenting Kai and Alaina through the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We watch five minutes of Bob Ross, and we watch the whole painting session within one week,\" she explains. \"When they're having fun, they're so excited — they'll learn anything you throw at them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sackett says her approach was informed by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/news-stories/isbe-partners-with-lurie-childrens-and-peoria-roe-on-mental-health-supports-for-illinois-students-and-staff/\">virtual training\u003c/a>, provided by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, that focused on the impacts of trauma on children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They mentioned a bad grade is never about a lazy kid,\" she says. If a child is struggling academically, they may be dealing with really tough circumstances at home. Sackett learned that teachers can help by creating a supportive environment that fosters resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheyla Ramirez, an eighth-grader at Sackett's school, has benefited a lot from daily check-ins with her teacher. Last fall, her family came down with COVID-19, and her baby sister ended up hospitalized before she recovered. Sheyla's uncle had died after testing positive for the virus months earlier. She says it was a really stressful time, especially for her third-grade sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My sister was like, 'Oh, I don't want to die,'\" Sheyla remembers. \"And it made me feel bad because it's just like... I didn't know what to tell her because I was in shock, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School staff routinely checked in to see if she or her family needed anything, and they offered to connect Sheyla with a school counselor. But Sheyla says the short daily lessons in mindfulness at the start of each school day — and being able to share her feelings and concerns with her teacher — were enough to help her get through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been doing an excellent job,\" says Sheyla's mom, Amparo Ramirez. \"I've been telling them, 'I'm thankful for you being here.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When more serious help is needed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many kids, a little morning circle time with a caring teacher, or an occasional chat with a school counselor is all they'll need. And the more schools invest in promoting mental health and equipping children with social-emotional skills, the fewer children will go on to develop more serious problems, says child psychiatrist Matt Biel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there will always be children who need more intensive interventions, which could involve school social workers and psychologists, when available, or a referral to a mental health professional beyond the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kai has been talking regularly with a therapist through his elementary school. And he says she has helped him come up with strategies to manage his stress at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57722\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_09_slide-077f290be0bec7c47f592429a9bf6ac901f10a9d-scaled-e1619077597733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai has been talking regularly with a therapist through his elementary school. He says she has helped him come up with strategies to manage his stress at home. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I would go in my room, lay on my bed, and either watch TV or play with my toys or do something like that,\" Kai says. \"And then I'll come back out when I'm more calm and happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a solo parent, Kai's mom, Rashida Humphrey-Wall, has also had a tough year. She admits that looking after two kids, in addition to taking on a new job, during a pandemic has been stressful. \"In the beginning I think I had depression, anxiety... anything you can think of, I probably had it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biel says that kind of stress can trickle down to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of the best evidence-based practices in the world are not going to have the desired effect if that child is living in a family that's overwhelmed by stress,\" he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best ways to address that is to also help caregivers, like Humphrey-Wall. And that's exactly what Kai's school has done. Through a partnership with \u003ca href=\"http://www.medstarwise.org/our-work\">Medstar Georgetown Center for Wellbeing in School Environments\u003c/a>, Kai's school arranged for Humphrey-Wall to meet with a clinical psychologist once a week for what they call \"parent wellbeing sessions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without it, she says, \"I don't know what I would have done, really.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partnerships between schools and mental health care providers can be expensive for districts and may not be an option in rural or under-resourced areas where there simply aren't enough child-focused services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57727\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_10_slide-b0078794ea6e5c005f0a555c084a7ef7c9ae2c4a-scaled-e1619077645425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"In the beginning [of the pandemic] I think I had depression, anxiety... anything you can think of, I probably had it,\" Humphrey-Wall says. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biel says he's hopeful the rise in telehealth will help. But whatever the solution, he says schools need support as they explore their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools can't beg, borrow and steal from what they already have to do this,\" Biel says. \"We need to support schools and school systems with more resources to make this possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federal help for schools\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For districts that want to do more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/03/09/974841565/heres-whats-in-the-american-rescue-plan-as-it-heads-toward-final-passage\">the latest COVID-19 relief package\u003c/a> could be a big help. The American Rescue Plan contains roughly $122 billion for K-12 schools, some of which can be used to hire more counselors, social workers and psychologists. And one U.S. senator has been pushing the Biden administration to emphasize mental health as it guides districts on how to spend that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not all schools and districts are equipped to work on these complex mental and behavioral health issues and meet the unique needs of today's students,\" Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto \u003ca href=\"https://www.cortezmasto.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/21.04.06%20CCM%20Letter%20to%20HHS%20and%20Ed.pdf\">wrote in a letter\u003c/a> to the secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services. \"Many suffer from drastic shortages of counselors, social workers, and psychologists to work with students even under normal circumstances. They will need robust assistance from community-based service providers and the health care community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez Masto says a recent spate of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/02/962060105/child-psychiatrists-warn-that-the-pandemic-may-be-driving-up-kids-suicide-risk\">student suicides in one county in her state\u003c/a>, Nevada, underscores just how urgent the needs are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a unique situation we're in, hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic,\" she tells NPR. \"We don't know the impact it's going to have long-term [on] our kids. But we know the short-term. I've seen it here in southern Nevada and its devastating consequence here. So we've got to change that dynamic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the U.S., where access to health care — especially for children's mental health — is inequitable and inconsistent, the difficult work of identifying and tending to the mental and emotional health of this pandemic generation will fall largely on the shoulders of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like the one at Kai's school, in Washington, D.C., could play a critical role in helping to change that dynamic. Cortez Masto hopes the flood of federal relief dollars will help other districts create similar partnerships with child mental health providers, or find other solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Kai and his mom are trying to figure out when Kai will return to in-person school. Humphrey-Wall thinks it would be good for her son to get out of the house, but Kai still fears bringing COVID-19 home. He's talking it through with his school-based therapist, doing his best to give those worries a roundhouse kick:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57728\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_07_slide-9c0033773489803bf3ed95626afd6bddcfd39afa-scaled-e1619077691258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai says he's doing his best to tamp his worries down. He's eager to get back to the business of making friends with the entire world. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We all need to be free from this quarantine. I'm going crazy. I want to be free!\" Kai shouts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kids have had extended exposure to chaos, crisis and uncertainty,\" says Matt Biel, a child psychiatrist at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's some good news for kids like Kai: Educators across the country say their top priority right now isn't doubling down on math or reading — it's helping students manage all of this pandemic-driven stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If kids don't return to school and get a lot of attention paid to security, safety, predictability and re-establishing of strong, secure relationships, [they] are not gonna be able to make up ground academically,\" Biel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Promoting mental wellness in the classroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reestablish relationships in the classroom — and help kids cope with the stress and trauma of the past year — mental health experts say educators can start by building in time every day, for every student, in every classroom to share their feelings and learn the basics of naming and managing their emotions. Think morning circle time or, for older students, homeroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Hernandez Middle School in Chicago, teacher Lilian Sackett starts off each day by checking in with students, then diving into a short lesson on mindfulness and other social-emotional skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is in a predominantly Latino area that was hit hard by the pandemic, Sackett says. She teaches English as a second language, and she learned early on that many of her students' families were dealing with a lot of stress related to job losses and illness — that's on top of any trauma that may have \u003cem>predated \u003c/em>the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to allow the students to share their experiences with the pandemic and to give them that safe space [to] talk about it,\" Sackett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, she says, children can benefit a lot from just a few minutes each day of classwide\u003cem> calm\u003c/em>. When she found out her students love Bob Ross and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/08/29/490923502/the-real-bob-ross-meet-the-meticulous-artist-behind-those-happy-trees\">tranquil, televised painting lessons\u003c/a> from the 1980s and '90s, Sackett decided to work him into their morning routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57725\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57725\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_06_slide-efbed2c9acc41fcdc8666e08eb5a210b441e9dcc-scaled-e1619077426812.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rashida Humphrey-Wall is a longtime nurse who recently began a new job — on top of her already full-time job of parenting Kai and Alaina through the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We watch five minutes of Bob Ross, and we watch the whole painting session within one week,\" she explains. \"When they're having fun, they're so excited — they'll learn anything you throw at them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sackett says her approach was informed by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/news-stories/isbe-partners-with-lurie-childrens-and-peoria-roe-on-mental-health-supports-for-illinois-students-and-staff/\">virtual training\u003c/a>, provided by Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, that focused on the impacts of trauma on children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They mentioned a bad grade is never about a lazy kid,\" she says. If a child is struggling academically, they may be dealing with really tough circumstances at home. Sackett learned that teachers can help by creating a supportive environment that fosters resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheyla Ramirez, an eighth-grader at Sackett's school, has benefited a lot from daily check-ins with her teacher. Last fall, her family came down with COVID-19, and her baby sister ended up hospitalized before she recovered. Sheyla's uncle had died after testing positive for the virus months earlier. She says it was a really stressful time, especially for her third-grade sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My sister was like, 'Oh, I don't want to die,'\" Sheyla remembers. \"And it made me feel bad because it's just like... I didn't know what to tell her because I was in shock, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School staff routinely checked in to see if she or her family needed anything, and they offered to connect Sheyla with a school counselor. But Sheyla says the short daily lessons in mindfulness at the start of each school day — and being able to share her feelings and concerns with her teacher — were enough to help her get through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been doing an excellent job,\" says Sheyla's mom, Amparo Ramirez. \"I've been telling them, 'I'm thankful for you being here.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When more serious help is needed\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many kids, a little morning circle time with a caring teacher, or an occasional chat with a school counselor is all they'll need. And the more schools invest in promoting mental health and equipping children with social-emotional skills, the fewer children will go on to develop more serious problems, says child psychiatrist Matt Biel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there will always be children who need more intensive interventions, which could involve school social workers and psychologists, when available, or a referral to a mental health professional beyond the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kai has been talking regularly with a therapist through his elementary school. And he says she has helped him come up with strategies to manage his stress at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57722\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57722\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_09_slide-077f290be0bec7c47f592429a9bf6ac901f10a9d-scaled-e1619077597733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai has been talking regularly with a therapist through his elementary school. He says she has helped him come up with strategies to manage his stress at home. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I would go in my room, lay on my bed, and either watch TV or play with my toys or do something like that,\" Kai says. \"And then I'll come back out when I'm more calm and happy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a solo parent, Kai's mom, Rashida Humphrey-Wall, has also had a tough year. She admits that looking after two kids, in addition to taking on a new job, during a pandemic has been stressful. \"In the beginning I think I had depression, anxiety... anything you can think of, I probably had it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biel says that kind of stress can trickle down to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of the best evidence-based practices in the world are not going to have the desired effect if that child is living in a family that's overwhelmed by stress,\" he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the best ways to address that is to also help caregivers, like Humphrey-Wall. And that's exactly what Kai's school has done. Through a partnership with \u003ca href=\"http://www.medstarwise.org/our-work\">Medstar Georgetown Center for Wellbeing in School Environments\u003c/a>, Kai's school arranged for Humphrey-Wall to meet with a clinical psychologist once a week for what they call \"parent wellbeing sessions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without it, she says, \"I don't know what I would have done, really.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partnerships between schools and mental health care providers can be expensive for districts and may not be an option in rural or under-resourced areas where there simply aren't enough child-focused services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57727\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_10_slide-b0078794ea6e5c005f0a555c084a7ef7c9ae2c4a-scaled-e1619077645425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"In the beginning [of the pandemic] I think I had depression, anxiety... anything you can think of, I probably had it,\" Humphrey-Wall says. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biel says he's hopeful the rise in telehealth will help. But whatever the solution, he says schools need support as they explore their options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools can't beg, borrow and steal from what they already have to do this,\" Biel says. \"We need to support schools and school systems with more resources to make this possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federal help for schools\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For districts that want to do more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/03/09/974841565/heres-whats-in-the-american-rescue-plan-as-it-heads-toward-final-passage\">the latest COVID-19 relief package\u003c/a> could be a big help. The American Rescue Plan contains roughly $122 billion for K-12 schools, some of which can be used to hire more counselors, social workers and psychologists. And one U.S. senator has been pushing the Biden administration to emphasize mental health as it guides districts on how to spend that money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not all schools and districts are equipped to work on these complex mental and behavioral health issues and meet the unique needs of today's students,\" Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto \u003ca href=\"https://www.cortezmasto.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/21.04.06%20CCM%20Letter%20to%20HHS%20and%20Ed.pdf\">wrote in a letter\u003c/a> to the secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services. \"Many suffer from drastic shortages of counselors, social workers, and psychologists to work with students even under normal circumstances. They will need robust assistance from community-based service providers and the health care community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortez Masto says a recent spate of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/02/962060105/child-psychiatrists-warn-that-the-pandemic-may-be-driving-up-kids-suicide-risk\">student suicides in one county in her state\u003c/a>, Nevada, underscores just how urgent the needs are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a unique situation we're in, hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic,\" she tells NPR. \"We don't know the impact it's going to have long-term [on] our kids. But we know the short-term. I've seen it here in southern Nevada and its devastating consequence here. So we've got to change that dynamic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the U.S., where access to health care — especially for children's mental health — is inequitable and inconsistent, the difficult work of identifying and tending to the mental and emotional health of this pandemic generation will fall largely on the shoulders of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Programs like the one at Kai's school, in Washington, D.C., could play a critical role in helping to change that dynamic. Cortez Masto hopes the flood of federal relief dollars will help other districts create similar partnerships with child mental health providers, or find other solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Kai and his mom are trying to figure out when Kai will return to in-person school. Humphrey-Wall thinks it would be good for her son to get out of the house, but Kai still fears bringing COVID-19 home. He's talking it through with his school-based therapist, doing his best to give those worries a roundhouse kick:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57728\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/04/enadworny_rashidaandkai_07_slide-9c0033773489803bf3ed95626afd6bddcfd39afa-scaled-e1619077691258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kai says he's doing his best to tamp his worries down. He's eager to get back to the business of making friends with the entire world. \u003ccite>(Elissa Nadworny/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We all need to be free from this quarantine. I'm going crazy. I want to be free!\" Kai shouts. 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"content": "\u003cp>To say Leah Juelke is an award-winning teacher is a bit of an understatement. She was a top 10 finalist for the Global Teacher Prize in 2020; she was North Dakota's Teacher of the Year in 2018; and she was awarded an NEA Foundation award for teaching excellence in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Juelke, who teaches high school English learners in Fargo, N.D., says nothing prepared her for teaching during the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The level of stress is exponentially higher. It's like nothing I've experienced before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a sentiment that NPR heard from teachers across the United States. After a year of uncertainty, long hours and juggling personal and work responsibilities, many told NPR they had reached a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Crumrine, a high school English teacher in Concord, N.H., says this has been the most challenging year she has ever encountered in her two decades of teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I say [that] as someone who started her first day of teaching on 9/11 in the Bronx in New York City.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teaching is one of the most stressful occupations in the U.S., tied only with nurses, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gallup.com/education/269648/state-america-schools-report.aspx\">2013 Gallup poll found\u003c/a>. Jennifer Greif Green, an education professor at Boston University, says the additional stress that teachers are reporting during the pandemic is worrying because it doesn't affect only educators — it also affects students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The mental health and well-being of teachers can have a really important impact on the mental health and well-being of the children who they're spending most of their days with,\" Green explains. \"Having teachers feel safe and supported in their school environments is essential to students learning and being successful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Sanetti, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Connecticut, says, \"Chronically stressed teachers are just less effective in the classroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that stress can also lead to burnout, which leads to teachers leaving the profession, Sanetti says. \"And we have a huge teacher turnover problem in our country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts are trying to help — with yoga classes, counseling sessions and webinars on mental health. Some teachers have organized trivia nights or online happy hours where colleagues can just vent. Teachers told NPR they force themselves to take breaks, go for a bike ride or call a friend. Some have started therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the educators NPR spoke with say they're so exhausted that even self-care feels like one additional thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is, when you're living it, you're just trying to get to the end of the day successfully and try again tomorrow,\" Crumrine says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"It feels like we're building the plane while we're flying it\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, when schools moved online, teachers across the U.S. had to completely reimagine their approach to education, often with no training or time to prepare. For many, it was a rough transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers told NPR they've spent the past year experimenting with different methods of online and hybrid teaching, while also providing tech support for their students and families. Many say they routinely work 12-hour days and on weekends, yet struggle to form relationships with children virtually. Answering emails can take two hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rashon Briggs, who teaches high school special education in Los Angeles, spent a lot of time worrying about his students during remote learning (his district only recently started offering in-person options). \"One of the biggest challenges is knowing that the kids were not getting the same level of service that they were getting in person,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers in districts that opened earlier for in-person learning say they have additional responsibilities now, such as sanitizing desks between classes, making sure children follow school safety protocols and keeping track of students who have had to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a calendar, and it says who's quarantined, who is cleared to return on what day, who was absent,\" explains Rosamund Looney, who teaches first grade in Jefferson Parish, La. \"Then I follow up with those families to see 'Are you OK?' So there's just so much space taken up by that monitoring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looney also worries about her students' learning. Everyone in her district has to wear masks in class, which she says she completely agrees with. But those masks mean she can't see her first-graders' mouths as they learn phonics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are watching your teacher sound out words and then figuring out how to do that. And it's really hard for me to gauge what they are and aren't able to say.\" She says she's especially concerned about students who are more at risk of falling behind academically, like English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New Hampshire, Crumrine says quarantines and positive cases among school staff have led to a constant shifting between fully online and hybrid classes. The fluctuations have been exhausting for her. \"We started the year remote. Then we went back to school in October; then we were remote again in November, December. We went back to hybrid [in early February],\" she says. New Hampshire's governor has now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhpr.org/post/sununu-says-all-nh-schools-must-reopen-later-month?nopop=1#stream/0\">ordered all schools to reopen\u003c/a> for full-time, in-person classes by this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels like we're building the plane while we're flying it and the destination keeps changing on us,\" Crumrine says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Balancing work and home life\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to worrying about their students, many teachers are also concerned about their own children. Crumrine, whose husband is also a teacher, has three children and says she feels pulled by competing demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel this sense of guilt that I'm not a good enough teacher for my students and I'm not a good mother for my own kids. It just feels like a constant wave of never feeling like I can do what I know I'm good at.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juelke, in North Dakota, is a single mom with a 9- and 3-year-old. \"I'm juggling the children and making sure my daughter is in her class and my 3-year-old is entertained. And that is definitely taking a toll.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teachers say they are eating and drinking more — and exercising and sleeping less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briggs, in LA, says his sleeping patterns are completely off. \"Being awake all hours of the night, going to bed at 2, 3 a.m., drinking coffee late at night and try to finish work so I can be more prepared the next day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's stressed, in part, because there are no clear work-life boundaries anymore. \"When you're waking up in the same space that you're on Zoom, that you're grading papers, that you're watching Netflix, those lines are blurred very easily.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say they're not as active at home and they're eating more junk food and putting on weight. The tight schedules mean they don't always move between classes or even remember to drink water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a lot of dehydrated teachers out there,\" says Looney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many, like Juelke, say they miss having personal time. \"That time where I could sit in the car and drive to work and just kind of relax a little, or my prep time at school alone. That's gone now. And so I feel like my mental health has struggled in that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says even though it breaks her heart, she has started looking for another profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonda Archer, a middle school math teacher in Arlington, Va., says she's usually a very upbeat person, but the pandemic — coupled with the racial turmoil in the country — has taken a toll. She's African American and says reports of Black men and women being killed by police make her fear for her husband's safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some points of lowness that I hadn't experienced before. There are some days where I feel like it's hard to keep going.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Archer says she has had difficulty sleeping and doesn't have an appetite. \"And right when I get into a groove, another traumatic experience happens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briggs says it was hard not being able to process events like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/\">George Floyd's death\u003c/a> and the Black Lives Matter protests with his colleagues. In the past, those conversations informed what he would say in the classroom to help his own students make sense of the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The teachers were not able to talk to each other about 'How do you talk about this? How do you present that?' \" he says. \"There was a lack of ability for us to communicate a message about social justice and rights and the wrongs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crumrine says she misses the social aspect of being with her students, as well as other teachers. \"We're not eating lunch together. We're not popping into each other's classrooms. We're all in our little silos.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The school reopening divide\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers told NPR they feel a growing chasm in their communities: Parents want schools to open, but teachers first want to make sure it's safe. Many feel that they are not being included in these conversations and that their concerns aren't being taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crumrine says it has been devastating hearing elected officials and parents criticize teachers, insisting that schools need to open, even though teachers are concerned about their own health. She says some community members acted like online classes meant teachers weren't working at all. In fact, she says, they were working harder than ever. \"It just makes it feel so much worse when you read these horrible things that people say about us or these assumptions that they make about what we are or are not doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says many states, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhpr.org/post/you-dont-need-vaccine-reopen-schools-says-sununu#stream/0\">including her own\u003c/a>, didn't prioritize vaccines for teachers, which to her revealed just \"how deep that lack of value of educators is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarahi Monterrey, who teaches English learners in Waukesha, Wis., says she has felt a \"huge divide\" in the community. \"It almost seems like us against them.\" She was in a Zoom school board meeting where parents and students were present, and a teacher testified that her husband had COVID-19. \"And a parent in the room said, 'Who cares?' And I was blown away. Just blown away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Virginia, Archer says that at the beginning of the pandemic, \"We were seen as angels. Like, 'Oh, my God, I've been home with my child for two months. How do teachers do it?' And now the narrative has totally flip-flopped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she also misses \"the vibe of school, the energy, all of that. But I don't want people to be sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Archer works 12-hour days and says people need to remember that teachers are people too. \"Our profession is a nurturing one, but we also are humans that need to be poured into. We need to be nurtured, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I say [that] as someone who started her first day of teaching on 9/11 in the Bronx in New York City.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teaching is one of the most stressful occupations in the U.S., tied only with nurses, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gallup.com/education/269648/state-america-schools-report.aspx\">2013 Gallup poll found\u003c/a>. Jennifer Greif Green, an education professor at Boston University, says the additional stress that teachers are reporting during the pandemic is worrying because it doesn't affect only educators — it also affects students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The mental health and well-being of teachers can have a really important impact on the mental health and well-being of the children who they're spending most of their days with,\" Green explains. \"Having teachers feel safe and supported in their school environments is essential to students learning and being successful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Sanetti, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Connecticut, says, \"Chronically stressed teachers are just less effective in the classroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that stress can also lead to burnout, which leads to teachers leaving the profession, Sanetti says. \"And we have a huge teacher turnover problem in our country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Districts are trying to help — with yoga classes, counseling sessions and webinars on mental health. Some teachers have organized trivia nights or online happy hours where colleagues can just vent. Teachers told NPR they force themselves to take breaks, go for a bike ride or call a friend. Some have started therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the educators NPR spoke with say they're so exhausted that even self-care feels like one additional thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is, when you're living it, you're just trying to get to the end of the day successfully and try again tomorrow,\" Crumrine says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"It feels like we're building the plane while we're flying it\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, when schools moved online, teachers across the U.S. had to completely reimagine their approach to education, often with no training or time to prepare. For many, it was a rough transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers told NPR they've spent the past year experimenting with different methods of online and hybrid teaching, while also providing tech support for their students and families. Many say they routinely work 12-hour days and on weekends, yet struggle to form relationships with children virtually. Answering emails can take two hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rashon Briggs, who teaches high school special education in Los Angeles, spent a lot of time worrying about his students during remote learning (his district only recently started offering in-person options). \"One of the biggest challenges is knowing that the kids were not getting the same level of service that they were getting in person,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers in districts that opened earlier for in-person learning say they have additional responsibilities now, such as sanitizing desks between classes, making sure children follow school safety protocols and keeping track of students who have had to quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a calendar, and it says who's quarantined, who is cleared to return on what day, who was absent,\" explains Rosamund Looney, who teaches first grade in Jefferson Parish, La. \"Then I follow up with those families to see 'Are you OK?' So there's just so much space taken up by that monitoring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looney also worries about her students' learning. Everyone in her district has to wear masks in class, which she says she completely agrees with. But those masks mean she can't see her first-graders' mouths as they learn phonics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are watching your teacher sound out words and then figuring out how to do that. And it's really hard for me to gauge what they are and aren't able to say.\" She says she's especially concerned about students who are more at risk of falling behind academically, like English learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New Hampshire, Crumrine says quarantines and positive cases among school staff have led to a constant shifting between fully online and hybrid classes. The fluctuations have been exhausting for her. \"We started the year remote. Then we went back to school in October; then we were remote again in November, December. We went back to hybrid [in early February],\" she says. New Hampshire's governor has now \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhpr.org/post/sununu-says-all-nh-schools-must-reopen-later-month?nopop=1#stream/0\">ordered all schools to reopen\u003c/a> for full-time, in-person classes by this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels like we're building the plane while we're flying it and the destination keeps changing on us,\" Crumrine says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Balancing work and home life\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to worrying about their students, many teachers are also concerned about their own children. Crumrine, whose husband is also a teacher, has three children and says she feels pulled by competing demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel this sense of guilt that I'm not a good enough teacher for my students and I'm not a good mother for my own kids. It just feels like a constant wave of never feeling like I can do what I know I'm good at.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juelke, in North Dakota, is a single mom with a 9- and 3-year-old. \"I'm juggling the children and making sure my daughter is in her class and my 3-year-old is entertained. And that is definitely taking a toll.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many teachers say they are eating and drinking more — and exercising and sleeping less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briggs, in LA, says his sleeping patterns are completely off. \"Being awake all hours of the night, going to bed at 2, 3 a.m., drinking coffee late at night and try to finish work so I can be more prepared the next day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's stressed, in part, because there are no clear work-life boundaries anymore. \"When you're waking up in the same space that you're on Zoom, that you're grading papers, that you're watching Netflix, those lines are blurred very easily.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others say they're not as active at home and they're eating more junk food and putting on weight. The tight schedules mean they don't always move between classes or even remember to drink water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a lot of dehydrated teachers out there,\" says Looney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many, like Juelke, say they miss having personal time. \"That time where I could sit in the car and drive to work and just kind of relax a little, or my prep time at school alone. That's gone now. And so I feel like my mental health has struggled in that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says even though it breaks her heart, she has started looking for another profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonda Archer, a middle school math teacher in Arlington, Va., says she's usually a very upbeat person, but the pandemic — coupled with the racial turmoil in the country — has taken a toll. She's African American and says reports of Black men and women being killed by police make her fear for her husband's safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were some points of lowness that I hadn't experienced before. 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She says some community members acted like online classes meant teachers weren't working at all. In fact, she says, they were working harder than ever. \"It just makes it feel so much worse when you read these horrible things that people say about us or these assumptions that they make about what we are or are not doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says many states, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhpr.org/post/you-dont-need-vaccine-reopen-schools-says-sununu#stream/0\">including her own\u003c/a>, didn't prioritize vaccines for teachers, which to her revealed just \"how deep that lack of value of educators is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarahi Monterrey, who teaches English learners in Waukesha, Wis., says she has felt a \"huge divide\" in the community. \"It almost seems like us against them.\" She was in a Zoom school board meeting where parents and students were present, and a teacher testified that her husband had COVID-19. \"And a parent in the room said, 'Who cares?' And I was blown away. 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"content": "\u003cp>Last month, Tsong Tong Vang was walking his 5-year-old grandson to the school bus in St. Paul, Minn., when, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sahanjournal.com/race/st-paul-asian-racism-bus-stop/\">local media reports\u003c/a>, a woman pulled up in a car and started yelling anti-Asian abuse and threats at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of such incidents have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/26/980480882/why-pandemics-give-birth-to-hate-from-black-death-to-covid-19\">growing around the country\u003c/a> since early last year, amid public statements by President Trump and others linking China with the coronavirus pandemic. And they may be one reason for some Asian families not to send children to school in-person right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian American students are far more likely to be learning remotely than members of any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. As of \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/\">February 2021\u003c/a>, almost 7 in 10 Asian American K-12 students were still learning online only, according to the U.S. Education Department's latest school survey. That's 12 points higher than Hispanic students, 15 points higher than Black students, and 45 points higher than white students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that gap may be because a large number of the nation's Asian students live in California, where most public schools remained closed in February. But the gap holds across the Northeast, the Midwest and the South, suggesting that Asian students are choosing to stay remote even where there are in-person options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it is striking that Asian-Americans are so hesitant to send their kids back to school,\" says Russell Jeung, professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of the group Stop AAPI Hate. 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She's an expert in the racial politics of education, access and Asian-Americans, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know plenty of people, including myself, who experienced this kind of racialized bullying in schools as children,\" she said. \"And as a parent to a young child in public school systems, I'm not comfortable, personally, now with sending my child in to school for that reason.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poon, Jeung and other experts say that, beyond the rise in anti-Asian racism, there are other reasons that Asian-Americans may be staying home from school in larger numbers than others. 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In New York City, that can mean public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian families, Tran says, including his own sibling's, are sharing information over WhatsApp and on social media, and concluding that New York City's schools are just not physically safe right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that, he adds, is a real loss: \"It cuts to the very core of trust and among immigrant families, what we call an institutional trust, with the public education system being one of the most important ones that many Asian immigrants encounter upon arriving in the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When New York City recently had another chance for students to opt-in to in-person learning, he said, some families that had already gone back to school in person told their friends and neighbors that it wasn't worth it because of the frequent quarantines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And this kind of mismanagement, of the opening and closing of the transition from remote and online that we experienced over the last year has been tremendously disruptive,\" Tran says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran and other experts worry the educational consequences of this extended time in remote learning could be grim, especially for Asian students who are English language learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poon's 6-year-old daughter is in the Chicago public schools, learning remotely this year. 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"content": "\u003cp>As students walked into Jahdai Jeffords' classroom for the first time, he greeted them with an assignment: \"Say something!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffords, who teaches Spanish and Latin American studies at Carver High School in Winston-Salem, N.C., had been teaching remotely since March 2020. When school opened back up almost a year later on February 15th, he had never met, or in some cases, even seen many of the students he had been teaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get over any first-day jitters, he rigged up a game: Don't introduce yourself by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd say, 'Wait! Don't tell me!' And try to guess their voices,\" Jeffords explains. \"Some of them had such unique voices [over Zoom] that I could tell, but others never really spoke, so it felt like having new students in front of me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar reunions are playing out in classrooms across the country, where after months of seeing their students only on computer screens, teachers are finally getting their chance to meet — and teach — their students face-to-face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Montufar, a sophomore in Jeffords' class, remembers her first day well; she was just as excited as her teacher to be back in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I walked in and he was standing on a high chair,\" she says with a grin. \"I was just like, 'Oh my gosh, Mr. Jeffords, like, here we go! I already know this is gonna be one of the best classes.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie was eager to get back to the familiar routines of school life. 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And they even looked at me and they were like, 'Wow! you're taller than I thought.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Arcola Elementary School reopened in person in mid-March, Barksdale's students had to adjust to a very different classroom. The reading corner was gone. The carpet squares the kids usually sat on? Packed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for the first time, Barksdale had to encourage her first-graders \u003cem>not \u003c/em>to share. \"An aspect for social and emotional learning that they really need to gain is how to share and how to collaborate,\" she says. \"And right now, the safest thing for them is to \u003cem>not\u003c/em> share their materials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says her students have adapted quickly. 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Though he says seeing his students' faces again brings him joy, he doesn't know if teaching the students in front of him — as well as those online — is feasible for the long-term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've met a lot of challenging things in my life – graduate school, and climbed a mountain,\" says Holland. \"This definitely is the hardest thing I've ever done... trying to teach students virtually \u003cem>and\u003c/em> in person through a mask.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holland says that after two weeks of this teaching model, he's exhausted. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Montufar, a sophomore in Jeffords' class, remembers her first day well; she was just as excited as her teacher to be back in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I walked in and he was standing on a high chair,\" she says with a grin. \"I was just like, 'Oh my gosh, Mr. Jeffords, like, here we go! I already know this is gonna be one of the best classes.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie was eager to get back to the familiar routines of school life. It was tough to stay motivated, she says, while learning virtually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a really social person,\" she explains. \"Once you get used to waking up and then logging into class, it gets really tiring just sitting all day in your pajamas not doing anything. 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I think there will still be some legacies of this explosion in homeschooling, but it won't be at these rates by any means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to a number of factors in play right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, many schools remain physically closed, and not all parents and students have been satisfied with the virtual classes offered instead. Second, even when schools \u003cem>are\u003c/em> open, many parents and caretakers remain concerned for their child's health and safety during a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many parents have newfound flexibility to try homeschooling in the first place: They're suddenly working from home for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the current spike will last will depend on whether employers continue to grant workers flexibility, Lubienski says. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"storyMajorUpdateDate\">\u003cstrong>Updated March 19, 2021 at 11:33 AM ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance for schools. On Friday, the agency announced it \"now recommends that, with universal masking, students should maintain a distance of at least 3 feet in classroom settings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously the guidance stated, \"Physical distancing (at least 6 feet) should be maximized to the greatest extent possible.\" The new guidelines still call for 6 feet of distance between adults and students as well as in common areas, such as auditoriums, and when masks are off, such as while eating. And the 6-foot distancing rule still applies for the general public in settings such as grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is momentous because in many places around the country, the 6-foot guidance has been interpreted as requiring schools to operate on part-time or hybrid schedules to reduce class sizes. A 3-foot rule would allow many more schools to open in person full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revision was spurred by some new research, including a study published in the\u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab230/6167856?searchresult=1\"> journal \u003cem>Clinical Infectious Diseases\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on March 10,which looked at schools in Massachusetts, where districts were given a choice of distancing students either 6 or 3 feet apart. 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The American Academy of Pediatrics, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/clinical-guidance/covid-19-planning-considerations-return-to-in-person-education-in-schools/\">has been warning\u003c/a> that \"in many school settings, 6 feet between students is not feasible without drastically limiting the number of students.\" As a result, the AAP has advised flexibility, telling school leaders to \"weigh the benefits of strict adherence to a 6-feet spacing rule between students with the potential downside if remote learning is the only alternative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30% of U.S. students attend schools that have adopted hybrid schedules, \u003ca href=\"https://info.burbio.com/school-tracker-update-mar-15/\">according to\u003c/a> the organization Burbio. These schedules can have children attending in-person for as few as five days every three weeks. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about kindergarten enrollment was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years old and already knowing her letters and basic subtraction, Annika Dunlap sat down in late August for her first day of kindergarten. Her mom helped her log in. Ninety minutes later, kindergarten was over for Annika. For good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decided, this is not for a 5-year-old,” said her mom, Nahoko Dunlap, 39. “The teacher was great, and I was really hoping she would love her teacher, but asking a 5-year-old to sit in front of a computer for 90 minutes wasn’t ideal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. She and her husband, who works as a software engineer, felt that Annika’s social experience was more important than any academic progress she might make in remote kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In person, you are learning from each other, but when it comes to virtual school, you’re not having conversations, so I didn’t see many positives of virtual learning,” Dunlap said. “She learned to mute and unmute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today Annika attends the Little Mud Puddles Learning Center, a private preschool, with her 3-year-old brother. Her mom works with her on phonics and reading in the evenings, and hopes she will be ready for first grade this fall. The tuition at Little Mud Puddles is $1,400 a month per child, which is typical for the Bay Area, but the Dunlaps get a discount for sending two children and pay $2,660 every month. It’s a stretch, as Nahoko Dunlap is working only part time while attending college to make a career change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kindergarten didn’t seem too critical,” she said. “It’s not mandatory in California, and that made us feel that she’s better off in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, parents of 5-year-olds across the country went through the same calculation. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecs.org/kindergarten-policies/#:~:text=Nineteen%20states%20and%20the%20District,either%20full%20or%20half%20day.\">31 states\u003c/a> where it isn’t required. But faced with the substitution of online kindergarten or, where school is offered in person, the risk that bigger school settings pose of contracting the coronavirus, a widespread number of parents chose something else, even if it meant paying for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of official national data, independent analyses have tried to quantify this year’s shift away from kindergarten. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/920316481/enrollment-is-dropping-in-public-schools-around-the-country\">reporting by NPR\u003c/a>, kindergarten enrollment in districts across the country dropped by an average of 16 percent. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/22/22193775/states-public-school-enrollment-decline-covid\">Another analysis\u003c/a> shows that this drop accounts for nearly a third of the total reduction in public school enrollment across 33 states. The decline might be greater among white families, which presumably have more resources for alternatives. In Oregon, for example, many more white families kept their children out of kindergarten than Black or Latino families there, according to reporting by The Oregonian, the state's largest newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic.png 876w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic-800x835.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic-160x167.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic-768x801.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts and early childhood experts that are tracking the opting out of kindergarten report that some 5-year-olds are attending impromptu kindergarten classes offered by private preschools, while others are enrolled in online charter or for-profit schools. Some well-to-do families hire tutors — sometimes paying a teacher’s salary — to work alongside a child who is attending remote kindergarten. Other families are skipping the school year entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The haphazard array of alternatives has early education leaders worried. While any kindergarten class reflects a variety of school readiness, kindergarten and first grade teachers will likely encounter a wider preparedness gap this fall. More children may be off track, not just academically but also emotionally and even physically, exacerbating inequities along class and racial lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This does not balance out in favor of lower-income families,” said Steven Barnett, senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University. “It’s a problem across the board for a whole cohort of kids, but the consequences are going to be the greatest for the most disadvantaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifics about who isn’t attending kindergarten are spotty and mostly anecdotal. Some districts followed up with families to ask why they didn’t enroll their 5-year-olds and what their plans were, but even then the picture lacked detail. When officials at Harrison School District 2, which serves some of the poorest neighborhoods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, queried families that had not enrolled for kindergarten, most reported choosing one of four alternatives: home schooling, private or parochial school, charter school or skipping kindergarten altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very concerned for this group of kids,” said Wendy Birhanzel, the district’s superintendent. “We will have to watch this cohort even through their senior year. They will be starting with a gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kindergarten enrollment in Harrison is down about 10 percent this year, and about 60 percent of the “missing” children are Hispanic English learners. This concerns Birhanzel because preschool enrollment is also down in the community, so some children who register in the fall may never have been in school at all. The district is open for in-person instruction with an option for remote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who are learning English “need as much time in front of a teacher as they can get,” she said. “It’s a grave concern that this is just one more year for them of not being exposed to English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just five years ago, the district was celebrating having narrowed the proficiency gaps between white, Black and Latino students and bringing test scores in all subjects closer together by revamping curriculum, focusing on different learning styles and eliminating barriers to AP classes. This year may set that progress back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any time you talk about achievement gaps, and you have a group of students not coming to school, there’s concern,” Birhanzel said. “Once that gap is created, it’s so much harder to close. We’re going to have to put extra resources through the grades, so this cohort can graduate on time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In normal years, Harrison District 2 offers a summer program for kids entering third grade through high school. This year, that program will include incoming kindergartners and rising first graders. Assuming the coronavirus is under control, kids will build academic skills, do music and physical education and take field trips (pandemic restrictions permitting). The district will also administer diagnostic testing before school starts to make grade placement and support decisions, reduce class sizes and teach in small groups to address gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kindergarten-age children who aren’t enrolled in school this year are missing out on crucial academic instruction, Birhanzel said, “and that’s not even talking about the social learning — listening to the teacher, making friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School attendance isn’t critical just for academic progress. Many families rely on their schools for counseling services, after-school programs, health clinics and physical safety. In addition, the physical education and meals that children get at school play a key role in addressing childhood obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the weight gain problems turn out to be in the summer,” NIEER’s Barnett said. “It turns out there is a poorer diet and less activity in the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affluent parents can pay for an extra year of preschool or a tutor, while many nonmedical frontline jobs pay lower wages, leaving lower-income families with fewer options to support kids in distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some cities, local organizations responded early in the pandemic and established free or low-cost centers where children could get support while attending remote school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wilmington, Delaware, the city partnered with local school districts and United Way to operate 26 learning pods where children receive a Chromebook and can attend all day for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a Boys and Girls Club,” said Michelle Taylor, president and CEO of United Way of Delaware. “Parents have to work. If my kid is at home, how do I know they’re in their class? This is as much about ensuring kids have a safe, caring environment to excel as it is getting the supports in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 700 Delaware children attend these pods, which are located in high-need neighborhoods. In order to keep their spots, students have to commit to attend 85 percent of the time and to get 85 percent of their schoolwork done while they are there. Paraprofessional teachers, who work for the school district and live in the pods’ neighborhoods, work with groups of 10 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working to make sure the [achievement] gap doesn’t get any wider,” Taylor said. “Over the summer, we are hoping we can focus on catch-up, on closing the gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when there is an adult present to help a young child with remote school, some children simply cannot focus for the amount of time required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very, very steep learning curve for these kids,” said Debra Zweben, child development specialist at Children’s Village, a nonprofit education center in Philadelphia. “Young children cannot have a personal connection to a teacher through a screen. It’s not realistic. So much of kindergarten is the relationship to the teacher in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grouped in age-based pods and wearing headsets, children attend their remote school classes from computers in Children’s Village’s building in the Center City neighborhood. An in-person teacher helps them sign in and get used to Zoom or Google Classroom. There are breaks for lunch, snacks and some outdoor play, but kids spend most of the day on their own, on a computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ethan didn’t want to wear the headsets, and we got three different kinds,” said Ann Voong, 40, whose son attended remote kindergarten at Children’s Village for about three months. “He would just get up and do what he wanted. I can’t just strap him down to his seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voong adjusted her schedule at work, in the human resources department of a home health agency, and kept Ethan at home in the mornings so she could help him with remote kindergarten. Then she’d drop him off at Children’s Village in the afternoon and go to work, but that didn’t go well either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would sit with him from 8 to 12 and then drop him off after lunch, but he got drained from it. He would be so tired from the day,” she said. “I want him to enjoy school. I want him to like it. If I take out a book, I want him to be excited about it. He used to be excited about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan, who is 5, is still at Children’s Village, but in a preschool classroom. Voong withdrew him from kindergarten, giving up a spot at an in-demand public school that she had secured by getting in line at 5 a.m. on registration day. Now she is waiting to hear if he has a spot in kindergarten at that same school this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want him to be happy,” she said. “We’ve taken so many things away from him [during the pandemic], like sports and playing at the playground. When he was in kindergarten he would look at me and say, ‘Why are you making me do this?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Liz-Willen-Rix-WhitherKindergarteners-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Liz-Willen-Rix-WhitherKindergarteners-2.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Liz-Willen-Rix-WhitherKindergarteners-2-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan Voong, 5, colors with his mom, Ann Voong, 40. Ethan struggled with online kindergarten so much that his parents withdrew him from his popular Philadelphia public school. They hope to enroll him in kindergarten again in fall 2021. \u003ccite>(Ann Voong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assessing children for grade-level readiness and building necessary supports may be the best tools that districts have to address potential gaps. In Yakima, Washington, the West Valley School District saw a 20 percent drop in expected kindergarten enrollment last fall. Elementary schools in the district are open for face-to-face instruction. Like Harrison School District 2, the West Valley district is now planning a summer program for all grades, followed by assessments and conversations with parents to discuss the best grade assignment and any necessary supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be proactive in placement rather than having children go into first grade, have struggles, and then have to move them back,” said Peter Finch, assistant superintendent for learning and teaching. About 40 percent of West Valley students are Hispanic, and 42 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Finch isn’t worried about an achievement gap, at least not in the primary grades, even with so many children not attending kindergarten. West Valley’s “personalized learning” approach translates state standards into badges that children earn at their own pace. Classrooms are also amply staffed, with student teachers from a local college assisting the lead teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You walk into classrooms, and there will be five adults working with five small groups,” he said. “We have a station rotation model. Students learn at their own pace. When they’re ready to show what they know, we do an assessment and they get the badge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Noyes, principal of Centennial Elementary in Colorado Springs’ Harrison School District 2, is also optimistic that individualized instruction with robust support will be enough to support children who come to school after missing the crucial kindergarten year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of families are doing what they can at home,” she said. But she does expect to see more readiness gaps. In addition to diagnostic testing, Noyes said her teachers will tap into the district’s curriculum and resource department to identify specific supports. “Even in the first grade, we are going to be maximizing group learning and smaller class sizes to help fill holes. It’s a tricky time right now, but I think we’re well equipped, and our resources can be focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone agrees that assessing children before making a grade assignment will lead to the best outcomes. Many experts worry that tests don’t capture a child’s capacity to learn quickly and catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be careful about assessment,” said Rhian Alvin, CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. “We have a long, nasty history of assessing children to sort and characterize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be a gap between parents who have been able to provide recreational and learning opportunities despite the pandemic and those who have not, Alvin predicted. And catching up those left behind will be expensive, too, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start, teachers will need professional development and ongoing coaching so they can help kids make up for lost learning time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers will have to watch and be sure they don’t become frustrated about the outcome of the pandemic, and take it out on the students,” said Bweikia Steen, associate professor of education at George Mason University. “It’s not their fault what’s happened over this past year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a child is behind academically or socially, it isn’t necessarily because the parents weren’t engaged, Steen said. Many parents are working hard to make ends meet, which may leave less or very little time for reading with their kids. Teachers may need training to understand individual family circumstances, she said, so they can provide thoughtful support. She is optimistic that quality instruction can meet the needs of children who have missed a year of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we go into the fall the same way we go into any new year, thinking, ‘I’m going to have a range of students who have a range of experiences, and it’s my job to meet each individual child’s needs,’ it’ll be fine,” Steen said. “Will it be easy? No. But I’m not saying it’s going to be doomsday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story about kindergarten enrollment was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&id=d3ee4c3e04\">\u003cem>Hechinger newsletter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today Annika attends the Little Mud Puddles Learning Center, a private preschool, with her 3-year-old brother. Her mom works with her on phonics and reading in the evenings, and hopes she will be ready for first grade this fall. The tuition at Little Mud Puddles is $1,400 a month per child, which is typical for the Bay Area, but the Dunlaps get a discount for sending two children and pay $2,660 every month. It’s a stretch, as Nahoko Dunlap is working only part time while attending college to make a career change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kindergarten didn’t seem too critical,” she said. “It’s not mandatory in California, and that made us feel that she’s better off in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, parents of 5-year-olds across the country went through the same calculation. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ecs.org/kindergarten-policies/#:~:text=Nineteen%20states%20and%20the%20District,either%20full%20or%20half%20day.\">31 states\u003c/a> where it isn’t required. But faced with the substitution of online kindergarten or, where school is offered in person, the risk that bigger school settings pose of contracting the coronavirus, a widespread number of parents chose something else, even if it meant paying for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of official national data, independent analyses have tried to quantify this year’s shift away from kindergarten. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/920316481/enrollment-is-dropping-in-public-schools-around-the-country\">reporting by NPR\u003c/a>, kindergarten enrollment in districts across the country dropped by an average of 16 percent. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/22/22193775/states-public-school-enrollment-decline-covid\">Another analysis\u003c/a> shows that this drop accounts for nearly a third of the total reduction in public school enrollment across 33 states. The decline might be greater among white families, which presumably have more resources for alternatives. In Oregon, for example, many more white families kept their children out of kindergarten than Black or Latino families there, according to reporting by The Oregonian, the state's largest newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic.png 876w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic-800x835.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic-160x167.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Drop-in-Kinder-Enrollment-graphic-768x801.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School districts and early childhood experts that are tracking the opting out of kindergarten report that some 5-year-olds are attending impromptu kindergarten classes offered by private preschools, while others are enrolled in online charter or for-profit schools. Some well-to-do families hire tutors — sometimes paying a teacher’s salary — to work alongside a child who is attending remote kindergarten. Other families are skipping the school year entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The haphazard array of alternatives has early education leaders worried. While any kindergarten class reflects a variety of school readiness, kindergarten and first grade teachers will likely encounter a wider preparedness gap this fall. More children may be off track, not just academically but also emotionally and even physically, exacerbating inequities along class and racial lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This does not balance out in favor of lower-income families,” said Steven Barnett, senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University. “It’s a problem across the board for a whole cohort of kids, but the consequences are going to be the greatest for the most disadvantaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifics about who isn’t attending kindergarten are spotty and mostly anecdotal. Some districts followed up with families to ask why they didn’t enroll their 5-year-olds and what their plans were, but even then the picture lacked detail. When officials at Harrison School District 2, which serves some of the poorest neighborhoods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, queried families that had not enrolled for kindergarten, most reported choosing one of four alternatives: home schooling, private or parochial school, charter school or skipping kindergarten altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am very concerned for this group of kids,” said Wendy Birhanzel, the district’s superintendent. “We will have to watch this cohort even through their senior year. They will be starting with a gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kindergarten enrollment in Harrison is down about 10 percent this year, and about 60 percent of the “missing” children are Hispanic English learners. This concerns Birhanzel because preschool enrollment is also down in the community, so some children who register in the fall may never have been in school at all. The district is open for in-person instruction with an option for remote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who are learning English “need as much time in front of a teacher as they can get,” she said. “It’s a grave concern that this is just one more year for them of not being exposed to English.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just five years ago, the district was celebrating having narrowed the proficiency gaps between white, Black and Latino students and bringing test scores in all subjects closer together by revamping curriculum, focusing on different learning styles and eliminating barriers to AP classes. This year may set that progress back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any time you talk about achievement gaps, and you have a group of students not coming to school, there’s concern,” Birhanzel said. “Once that gap is created, it’s so much harder to close. We’re going to have to put extra resources through the grades, so this cohort can graduate on time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In normal years, Harrison District 2 offers a summer program for kids entering third grade through high school. This year, that program will include incoming kindergartners and rising first graders. Assuming the coronavirus is under control, kids will build academic skills, do music and physical education and take field trips (pandemic restrictions permitting). The district will also administer diagnostic testing before school starts to make grade placement and support decisions, reduce class sizes and teach in small groups to address gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kindergarten-age children who aren’t enrolled in school this year are missing out on crucial academic instruction, Birhanzel said, “and that’s not even talking about the social learning — listening to the teacher, making friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School attendance isn’t critical just for academic progress. Many families rely on their schools for counseling services, after-school programs, health clinics and physical safety. In addition, the physical education and meals that children get at school play a key role in addressing childhood obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the weight gain problems turn out to be in the summer,” NIEER’s Barnett said. “It turns out there is a poorer diet and less activity in the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affluent parents can pay for an extra year of preschool or a tutor, while many nonmedical frontline jobs pay lower wages, leaving lower-income families with fewer options to support kids in distance learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some cities, local organizations responded early in the pandemic and established free or low-cost centers where children could get support while attending remote school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wilmington, Delaware, the city partnered with local school districts and United Way to operate 26 learning pods where children receive a Chromebook and can attend all day for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a Boys and Girls Club,” said Michelle Taylor, president and CEO of United Way of Delaware. “Parents have to work. If my kid is at home, how do I know they’re in their class? This is as much about ensuring kids have a safe, caring environment to excel as it is getting the supports in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 700 Delaware children attend these pods, which are located in high-need neighborhoods. In order to keep their spots, students have to commit to attend 85 percent of the time and to get 85 percent of their schoolwork done while they are there. Paraprofessional teachers, who work for the school district and live in the pods’ neighborhoods, work with groups of 10 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re working to make sure the [achievement] gap doesn’t get any wider,” Taylor said. “Over the summer, we are hoping we can focus on catch-up, on closing the gap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when there is an adult present to help a young child with remote school, some children simply cannot focus for the amount of time required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very, very steep learning curve for these kids,” said Debra Zweben, child development specialist at Children’s Village, a nonprofit education center in Philadelphia. “Young children cannot have a personal connection to a teacher through a screen. It’s not realistic. So much of kindergarten is the relationship to the teacher in person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grouped in age-based pods and wearing headsets, children attend their remote school classes from computers in Children’s Village’s building in the Center City neighborhood. An in-person teacher helps them sign in and get used to Zoom or Google Classroom. There are breaks for lunch, snacks and some outdoor play, but kids spend most of the day on their own, on a computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ethan didn’t want to wear the headsets, and we got three different kinds,” said Ann Voong, 40, whose son attended remote kindergarten at Children’s Village for about three months. “He would just get up and do what he wanted. I can’t just strap him down to his seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voong adjusted her schedule at work, in the human resources department of a home health agency, and kept Ethan at home in the mornings so she could help him with remote kindergarten. Then she’d drop him off at Children’s Village in the afternoon and go to work, but that didn’t go well either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would sit with him from 8 to 12 and then drop him off after lunch, but he got drained from it. He would be so tired from the day,” she said. “I want him to enjoy school. I want him to like it. If I take out a book, I want him to be excited about it. He used to be excited about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan, who is 5, is still at Children’s Village, but in a preschool classroom. Voong withdrew him from kindergarten, giving up a spot at an in-demand public school that she had secured by getting in line at 5 a.m. on registration day. Now she is waiting to hear if he has a spot in kindergarten at that same school this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want him to be happy,” she said. “We’ve taken so many things away from him [during the pandemic], like sports and playing at the playground. When he was in kindergarten he would look at me and say, ‘Why are you making me do this?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57548\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Liz-Willen-Rix-WhitherKindergarteners-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Liz-Willen-Rix-WhitherKindergarteners-2.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Liz-Willen-Rix-WhitherKindergarteners-2-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ethan Voong, 5, colors with his mom, Ann Voong, 40. Ethan struggled with online kindergarten so much that his parents withdrew him from his popular Philadelphia public school. They hope to enroll him in kindergarten again in fall 2021. \u003ccite>(Ann Voong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assessing children for grade-level readiness and building necessary supports may be the best tools that districts have to address potential gaps. In Yakima, Washington, the West Valley School District saw a 20 percent drop in expected kindergarten enrollment last fall. Elementary schools in the district are open for face-to-face instruction. Like Harrison School District 2, the West Valley district is now planning a summer program for all grades, followed by assessments and conversations with parents to discuss the best grade assignment and any necessary supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be proactive in placement rather than having children go into first grade, have struggles, and then have to move them back,” said Peter Finch, assistant superintendent for learning and teaching. About 40 percent of West Valley students are Hispanic, and 42 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Finch isn’t worried about an achievement gap, at least not in the primary grades, even with so many children not attending kindergarten. West Valley’s “personalized learning” approach translates state standards into badges that children earn at their own pace. Classrooms are also amply staffed, with student teachers from a local college assisting the lead teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You walk into classrooms, and there will be five adults working with five small groups,” he said. “We have a station rotation model. Students learn at their own pace. When they’re ready to show what they know, we do an assessment and they get the badge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim Noyes, principal of Centennial Elementary in Colorado Springs’ Harrison School District 2, is also optimistic that individualized instruction with robust support will be enough to support children who come to school after missing the crucial kindergarten year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of families are doing what they can at home,” she said. But she does expect to see more readiness gaps. In addition to diagnostic testing, Noyes said her teachers will tap into the district’s curriculum and resource department to identify specific supports. “Even in the first grade, we are going to be maximizing group learning and smaller class sizes to help fill holes. It’s a tricky time right now, but I think we’re well equipped, and our resources can be focused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone agrees that assessing children before making a grade assignment will lead to the best outcomes. Many experts worry that tests don’t capture a child’s capacity to learn quickly and catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would be careful about assessment,” said Rhian Alvin, CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. “We have a long, nasty history of assessing children to sort and characterize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be a gap between parents who have been able to provide recreational and learning opportunities despite the pandemic and those who have not, Alvin predicted. And catching up those left behind will be expensive, too, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start, teachers will need professional development and ongoing coaching so they can help kids make up for lost learning time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers will have to watch and be sure they don’t become frustrated about the outcome of the pandemic, and take it out on the students,” said Bweikia Steen, associate professor of education at George Mason University. “It’s not their fault what’s happened over this past year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a child is behind academically or socially, it isn’t necessarily because the parents weren’t engaged, Steen said. Many parents are working hard to make ends meet, which may leave less or very little time for reading with their kids. Teachers may need training to understand individual family circumstances, she said, so they can provide thoughtful support. She is optimistic that quality instruction can meet the needs of children who have missed a year of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we go into the fall the same way we go into any new year, thinking, ‘I’m going to have a range of students who have a range of experiences, and it’s my job to meet each individual child’s needs,’ it’ll be fine,” Steen said. “Will it be easy? No. But I’m not saying it’s going to be doomsday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School social worker Maria Garcia keeps a list on her computer. It’s not the kind of list anyone wants to have; it's not a list of dream vacations or birthday gifts for her three kids or even groceries to pick up. It’s a list of all her students’ family members who have died from coronavirus: 35 and counting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia works at a public elementary school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where she also grew up. Named for a park that sits in view of the Statue of Liberty, it’s a neighborhood Garcia describes as vibrant and resilient, “with many people seeking to better their lives.” It’s also a place that the serpent of COVID-19 struck with particular venom, attacking all its vulnerabilities: high poverty, crowded housing and low health \u003ca href=\"https://www.brooklynpaper.com/sunset-park-has-lowest-health-insurance-rate-in-brooklyn-report/\">insurance\u003c/a> coverage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In the spring, our families didn't know where to go,” Garcia recalled. With a large immigrant population and a tense political climate, she said people were afraid to reach out for services. The school fielded many calls “about people being very sick at home, not knowing what to do.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, Garcia and her colleagues have worked tirelessly to connect families to health care, set up food pantries, bridge technology gaps and keep education going for their 800 students. At the same time, they’re encountering the effects of widespread grief and trauma and all the ways it hinders learning. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It's a situation playing out in schools across America. One that educators and mental health professionals say requires an intentional response as more schools reopen this spring. But with so much focus on \"learning loss\" and “returning to normal,” it’s unclear whether schools will be able to prioritize healing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last month the U.S. death toll from coronavirus \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/22/969494791/a-loss-to-the-whole-society-u-s-covid-19-death-toll-reaches-500-000\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">surpassed half a million\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That’s a difficult number to fathom, but in schools it can look like this: a list on a computer, dozens of grieving children, and staff stretching themselves thinner and thinner to support them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Tidal wave of loss\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia said she’d been hearing about unidentifiable, drawn-out illnesses among her school’s families — 74% of whom are Hispanic — even before the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic in March 2020. Then, around mid-month, everything shifted. Fast. Schools shut down. Ambulance sirens wailed all day. Hospital morgues \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-bodies.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">overflowed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was like a tidal wave,” Garcia said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At home with her own family, she typed the names of the deceased into a document, unsure what she would do with the list but compelled to keep a record. “There was no way to mourn during the spring,” she said. “But I was like, 'How could it be OK to just let this go by?'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By August, 4,200 children in New York State lost a parent to COVID, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://uhfnyc.org/news/article/uhf-report-4200-children-nys--lost-parent-covid-19/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the United Hospital Fund. Those children were disproportionately Black and Hispanic, and 57% lived in three boroughs of New York City, including Brooklyn.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57534\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/bereavement-basket-1-e1615879596821.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/bereavement-basket-1-e1615879596821.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/bereavement-basket-1-e1615879596821-160x171.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bereavement basket for kids filled with books, activities and comforting items. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Maria Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School closures made it hard to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55595/staying-in-touch-why-kids-need-teachers-during-coronavirus-school-closings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reach those children\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Garcia partnered with a local bookstore to send home “bereavement baskets” with books, a stuffed animal, colored pencils and a handwritten note, but it wasn’t until the city’s schools \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-schools-reopen.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reopened in October\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that she could assess how students were really doing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The conflict between physical distancing and the human need for connection is one of the great challenges of the pandemic, according to Dr. Pamela Cantor, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Cantor is the founder of Turnaround for Children, a nonprofit that translates developmental science into \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://turnaroundusa.org/toolbox/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resources for educators\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stress caused by loss of a loved one or even the loss of daily routines can trigger a hormone called cortisol, Cantor explained. When stress is chronic, cortisol can do long-term harm to bodily systems, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57373/why-we-need-to-pay-more-attention-to-the-youngest-children-right-now-and-their-parents\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">including those associated with learning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But Cantor said that another hormone, oxytocin, can have a countering effect on the same systems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what triggers oxytocin?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human relationships. In particular, relationships that are full of love, trust, attachment and safety. That’s why, Cantor said, educational settings that put connection at the center are the most successful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Space for healing\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In November, Garcia and two colleagues began offering \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/trauma-informed-teaching\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">trauma support\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> sessions for groups of about four students. Each group runs for 12 weeks, mostly via Zoom to accommodate in-person and virtual students. They use a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/cognitive-behavioral-therapy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cognitive-behavioral\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> model that enables children to share their stories, recognize connections between emotions and behavior, and eventually reduce the intensity of negative feelings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a normal year, Garcia might facilitate one trauma support group. This year, she has run three. A colleague has done a similar number. They’ve also led \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/resilience\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resilience\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> workshops for entire classes. Officially, Garcia’s job is focused on special education services, not counseling. She said some of these activities have been implemented by a partner agency in the past, but the technical logistics and unpredictable schedule made that too hard this year. So she adds to her own workload, sometimes missing lunch to fill the gaps.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I can't allow the students to not have that kind of support,” she said. Without it, kids can become disengaged from school and overwhelmed by the seeming endlessness of the pandemic. “So we're trying to stretch ourselves.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Garcia speaks, she tugs her fists apart, like she’s pulling taffy. Her words echo many classroom teachers, who have had to learn new instructional methods, adapt to constant uncertainty, and go to great lengths to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/pandemic-schools-students-missing/2021/02/25/f0b27262-5ce8-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reach missing kids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this year. And when counselors are unavailable or over capacity, teachers can face the decreased motivation among students that Garcia worries about.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One of the universals about grief is that there has to be a place and a space for the feelings associated with loss,” said Cantor, the Turnaround for Children founder.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marcus Harden, a former school counselor and school leader, said teachers can also provide those spaces by being intentional. Some of the activities he recommends include \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edutopia.org/article/building-community-restorative-circles\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">healing circles\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/mindfulness\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mindfulness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/journaling\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">journaling\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and authentic \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edutopia.org/article/simple-powerful-class-opening-activity\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">check-ins\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Through his organization, ACE Academy, Harden helps educators implement such practices with a focus on young men of color.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But as more teachers get \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/vaccine-access-speeds-up-for-teachers-after-bidens-declaration/2021/03\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">vaccinated\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> against coronavirus and the Biden administration \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973561015/education-secretary-cardona-has-a-plan-to-open-schools-for-in-person-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pushes for all schools to reopen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Harden said these efforts could be skipped in the rush to make up for lost instruction. “You can't treat it like a throw away, which we tend to do with any relational thing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Healing takes time. In Sunset Park, businesses have reopened but foot traffic is lighter. A once-bustling diner no longer draws a line on weekends. Parents who used to clean affluent homes five days a week now work two or three.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia’s list of the deceased isn’t growing as rapidly as 12 months ago, but it still weighs on her. She worries how the losses will affect students long-term. Recently, she spoke with a child who had been a diligent pupil before the pandemic. After a family member died from COVID-19, he started missing class and assignments. Garcia asked what was going on. He told her: “I just feel like I can't find happiness in anything.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That student is 9-years-old, Garcia said. And his response was familiar. “There’s countless stories like that.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School social worker Maria Garcia keeps a list on her computer. It’s not the kind of list anyone wants to have; it's not a list of dream vacations or birthday gifts for her three kids or even groceries to pick up. It’s a list of all her students’ family members who have died from coronavirus: 35 and counting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia works at a public elementary school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where she also grew up. Named for a park that sits in view of the Statue of Liberty, it’s a neighborhood Garcia describes as vibrant and resilient, “with many people seeking to better their lives.” It’s also a place that the serpent of COVID-19 struck with particular venom, attacking all its vulnerabilities: high poverty, crowded housing and low health \u003ca href=\"https://www.brooklynpaper.com/sunset-park-has-lowest-health-insurance-rate-in-brooklyn-report/\">insurance\u003c/a> coverage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In the spring, our families didn't know where to go,” Garcia recalled. With a large immigrant population and a tense political climate, she said people were afraid to reach out for services. The school fielded many calls “about people being very sick at home, not knowing what to do.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, Garcia and her colleagues have worked tirelessly to connect families to health care, set up food pantries, bridge technology gaps and keep education going for their 800 students. At the same time, they’re encountering the effects of widespread grief and trauma and all the ways it hinders learning. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It's a situation playing out in schools across America. One that educators and mental health professionals say requires an intentional response as more schools reopen this spring. But with so much focus on \"learning loss\" and “returning to normal,” it’s unclear whether schools will be able to prioritize healing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last month the U.S. death toll from coronavirus \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/22/969494791/a-loss-to-the-whole-society-u-s-covid-19-death-toll-reaches-500-000\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">surpassed half a million\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That’s a difficult number to fathom, but in schools it can look like this: a list on a computer, dozens of grieving children, and staff stretching themselves thinner and thinner to support them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Tidal wave of loss\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia said she’d been hearing about unidentifiable, drawn-out illnesses among her school’s families — 74% of whom are Hispanic — even before the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic in March 2020. Then, around mid-month, everything shifted. Fast. Schools shut down. Ambulance sirens wailed all day. Hospital morgues \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-bodies.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">overflowed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was like a tidal wave,” Garcia said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At home with her own family, she typed the names of the deceased into a document, unsure what she would do with the list but compelled to keep a record. “There was no way to mourn during the spring,” she said. “But I was like, 'How could it be OK to just let this go by?'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By August, 4,200 children in New York State lost a parent to COVID, according to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://uhfnyc.org/news/article/uhf-report-4200-children-nys--lost-parent-covid-19/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the United Hospital Fund. Those children were disproportionately Black and Hispanic, and 57% lived in three boroughs of New York City, including Brooklyn.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57534\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/bereavement-basket-1-e1615879596821.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/bereavement-basket-1-e1615879596821.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/bereavement-basket-1-e1615879596821-160x171.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bereavement basket for kids filled with books, activities and comforting items. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Maria Garcia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">School closures made it hard to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55595/staying-in-touch-why-kids-need-teachers-during-coronavirus-school-closings\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reach those children\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Garcia partnered with a local bookstore to send home “bereavement baskets” with books, a stuffed animal, colored pencils and a handwritten note, but it wasn’t until the city’s schools \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-schools-reopen.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reopened in October\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that she could assess how students were really doing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The conflict between physical distancing and the human need for connection is one of the great challenges of the pandemic, according to Dr. Pamela Cantor, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Cantor is the founder of Turnaround for Children, a nonprofit that translates developmental science into \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://turnaroundusa.org/toolbox/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resources for educators\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stress caused by loss of a loved one or even the loss of daily routines can trigger a hormone called cortisol, Cantor explained. When stress is chronic, cortisol can do long-term harm to bodily systems, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57373/why-we-need-to-pay-more-attention-to-the-youngest-children-right-now-and-their-parents\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">including those associated with learning\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But Cantor said that another hormone, oxytocin, can have a countering effect on the same systems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what triggers oxytocin?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human relationships. In particular, relationships that are full of love, trust, attachment and safety. That’s why, Cantor said, educational settings that put connection at the center are the most successful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Space for healing\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In November, Garcia and two colleagues began offering \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/trauma-informed-teaching\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">trauma support\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> sessions for groups of about four students. Each group runs for 12 weeks, mostly via Zoom to accommodate in-person and virtual students. They use a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/cognitive-behavioral-therapy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cognitive-behavioral\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> model that enables children to share their stories, recognize connections between emotions and behavior, and eventually reduce the intensity of negative feelings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a normal year, Garcia might facilitate one trauma support group. This year, she has run three. A colleague has done a similar number. They’ve also led \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/resilience\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">resilience\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> workshops for entire classes. Officially, Garcia’s job is focused on special education services, not counseling. She said some of these activities have been implemented by a partner agency in the past, but the technical logistics and unpredictable schedule made that too hard this year. So she adds to her own workload, sometimes missing lunch to fill the gaps.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I can't allow the students to not have that kind of support,” she said. Without it, kids can become disengaged from school and overwhelmed by the seeming endlessness of the pandemic. “So we're trying to stretch ourselves.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Garcia speaks, she tugs her fists apart, like she’s pulling taffy. Her words echo many classroom teachers, who have had to learn new instructional methods, adapt to constant uncertainty, and go to great lengths to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/pandemic-schools-students-missing/2021/02/25/f0b27262-5ce8-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reach missing kids\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this year. And when counselors are unavailable or over capacity, teachers can face the decreased motivation among students that Garcia worries about.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“One of the universals about grief is that there has to be a place and a space for the feelings associated with loss,” said Cantor, the Turnaround for Children founder.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marcus Harden, a former school counselor and school leader, said teachers can also provide those spaces by being intentional. Some of the activities he recommends include \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edutopia.org/article/building-community-restorative-circles\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">healing circles\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/mindfulness\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mindfulness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/journaling\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">journaling\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and authentic \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edutopia.org/article/simple-powerful-class-opening-activity\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">check-ins\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Through his organization, ACE Academy, Harden helps educators implement such practices with a focus on young men of color.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But as more teachers get \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/vaccine-access-speeds-up-for-teachers-after-bidens-declaration/2021/03\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">vaccinated\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> against coronavirus and the Biden administration \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973561015/education-secretary-cardona-has-a-plan-to-open-schools-for-in-person-learning\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">pushes for all schools to reopen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Harden said these efforts could be skipped in the rush to make up for lost instruction. “You can't treat it like a throw away, which we tend to do with any relational thing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Healing takes time. In Sunset Park, businesses have reopened but foot traffic is lighter. A once-bustling diner no longer draws a line on weekends. Parents who used to clean affluent homes five days a week now work two or three.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia’s list of the deceased isn’t growing as rapidly as 12 months ago, but it still weighs on her. She worries how the losses will affect students long-term. Recently, she spoke with a child who had been a diligent pupil before the pandemic. After a family member died from COVID-19, he started missing class and assignments. Garcia asked what was going on. He told her: “I just feel like I can't find happiness in anything.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children’s book creator \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leuyenpham.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LeUyen Pham\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> remembers the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as a time of contrasts and confusion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With her husband and kids at home, the house was suddenly loud all the time, while Los Angeles was abnormally quiet. Unanswerable questions swirled everywhere. “We were all walking around in a weird fog,” said Pham. “We were all nervous. We were all scared. Was it just the flu? Was it something bigger than the flu? Were we all going to die? We just didn’t know.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So Pham did what authors do. She wrote.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At first she wrote without a plan, observing what she saw in her neighborhood and in the world. Soon, a pattern emerged. A juxtaposition between what was happening outside and inside, both literally and figuratively. It was almost like a nursery rhyme, said Pham, who has illustrated more than 100 books and was a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAOTeGFo2zs\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 Caldecott honoree\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within months, she turned her jotted-down ideas into the text and art for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250798350\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside, Inside\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a picture book published in January. The book never says words like “coronavirus” or “quarantine,” yet through digitally illustrated scenes of families, workers and neighborhoods pulled from real life in 2020, it’s a literary time capsule that can help kids and adults reflect on their experiences during the pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png\" alt=\"Pages from the children's book "Outside, Inside" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-800x260.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-1020x332.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-160x52.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-768x250.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-1536x500.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pages from the children's book \"Outside, Inside\" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LeUyen Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s something sorely needed right now, according \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MsKass1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kass Minor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a former special education teacher who works with districts around the country to improve teaching and learning. Minor said she worries that the ongoing task of keeping people safe from COVID-19 has edged out space for meaningful conversations about the past year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m worried because I feel like we are teaching children to hold it in and to ignore what happened,” Minor said. “500,000 people died. That's real, and we’ve got to talk about it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To help teachers open those conversations, Minor teamed up with Pham to create a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CLk2MY853cjKJDZVXu-81jTAkRp-QjF3/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“teaching bundle”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with a read-aloud guide and hands-on activities to accompany \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside, Inside\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The pair also will discuss the picture book and how to connect it to curriculum during \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crowdcast.io/e/57ie1tfv/register\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a webinar hosted by the Author Village\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside, Inside\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> does not follow one main character but weaves a collective narrative of a period when everyone all over the world “just went inside, shut their doors, and waited.” At the same time, it reflects \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57493/a-year-of-school-like-no-other-how-a-teacher-a-student-and-a-parent-have-coped\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how differently people experienced the pandemic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> based on their jobs, locations and other circumstances. Its pages present a mosaic of towns, windows, kitchen and homes through which a reader can glimpse these varied lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1868px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4.png\" alt=\"Pages from the children's book "Outside, Inside" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \" width=\"1868\" height=\"1216\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4.png 1868w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-1020x664.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-768x500.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-1536x1000.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1868px) 100vw, 1868px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from the children's book \"Outside, Inside\" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LeUyen Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/From-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png\">spread\u003c/a>, for example, shows a family baking bread, another family stressing over bills, a pair of smiling children playing a board game, and another a child looking bored in a virtual class. The book also acknowledges that not everyone got to stay home through an outside scene of frontline and essential workers in action and an indoor scene full of hospital rooms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Minor’s teaching bundle, educators can find prompts for “think aloud” and “turn and talk” moments to use with specific pages. The prompts encourage children to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55882/how-keeping-a-pandemic-journal-builds-students-historical-thinking-skills-and-helps-them-cope\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">share memories from quarantine\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> through writing, drawing and talking.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55694/how-online-book-read-alouds-can-help-students-literacy-and-connection-during-social-distancing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">read aloud\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, teachers can build on the discussion by asking students to create an Outside, Inside \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWtPaRg4ahe6JzfJkR61UCjVJPiG5dge/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">house\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or a time capsule. 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She said her recent classroom interactions have differed from when she toured for previous books. Before, children often wanted to see her illustration skills in action. Now, “it's not about what can I draw, it’s about what can you remember?” she said. “Somehow that empowers the kids to turn it onto themselves.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1866px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png\" alt=\"A page from the children's book "Outside, Inside" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \" width=\"1866\" height=\"1215\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png 1866w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-1020x664.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-768x500.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-1536x1000.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1866px) 100vw, 1866px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from the children's book \"Outside, Inside\" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LeUyen Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grown-ups’ reactions have surprised Pham, too. 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Though we can’t write “The End” on the pandemic just yet, Pham and Minor hope that the picture book and accompanying lesson plans can be part of the healing process.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children’s book creator \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://leuyenpham.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LeUyen Pham\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> remembers the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as a time of contrasts and confusion.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With her husband and kids at home, the house was suddenly loud all the time, while Los Angeles was abnormally quiet. Unanswerable questions swirled everywhere. “We were all walking around in a weird fog,” said Pham. “We were all nervous. We were all scared. Was it just the flu? Was it something bigger than the flu? Were we all going to die? We just didn’t know.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So Pham did what authors do. She wrote.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At first she wrote without a plan, observing what she saw in her neighborhood and in the world. Soon, a pattern emerged. A juxtaposition between what was happening outside and inside, both literally and figuratively. It was almost like a nursery rhyme, said Pham, who has illustrated more than 100 books and was a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAOTeGFo2zs\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 Caldecott honoree\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within months, she turned her jotted-down ideas into the text and art for \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250798350\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside, Inside\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a picture book published in January. The book never says words like “coronavirus” or “quarantine,” yet through digitally illustrated scenes of families, workers and neighborhoods pulled from real life in 2020, it’s a literary time capsule that can help kids and adults reflect on their experiences during the pandemic.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57506\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png\" alt=\"Pages from the children's book "Outside, Inside" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-800x260.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-1020x332.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-160x52.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-768x250.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pages-from-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-1536x500.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pages from the children's book \"Outside, Inside\" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LeUyen Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s something sorely needed right now, according \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MsKass1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kass Minor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a former special education teacher who works with districts around the country to improve teaching and learning. Minor said she worries that the ongoing task of keeping people safe from COVID-19 has edged out space for meaningful conversations about the past year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m worried because I feel like we are teaching children to hold it in and to ignore what happened,” Minor said. “500,000 people died. That's real, and we’ve got to talk about it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To help teachers open those conversations, Minor teamed up with Pham to create a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CLk2MY853cjKJDZVXu-81jTAkRp-QjF3/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“teaching bundle”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with a read-aloud guide and hands-on activities to accompany \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside, Inside\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The pair also will discuss the picture book and how to connect it to curriculum during \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crowdcast.io/e/57ie1tfv/register\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a webinar hosted by the Author Village\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside, Inside\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> does not follow one main character but weaves a collective narrative of a period when everyone all over the world “just went inside, shut their doors, and waited.” At the same time, it reflects \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57493/a-year-of-school-like-no-other-how-a-teacher-a-student-and-a-parent-have-coped\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how differently people experienced the pandemic\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> based on their jobs, locations and other circumstances. Its pages present a mosaic of towns, windows, kitchen and homes through which a reader can glimpse these varied lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57507\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1868px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4.png\" alt=\"Pages from the children's book "Outside, Inside" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \" width=\"1868\" height=\"1216\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4.png 1868w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-1020x664.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-768x500.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Pham4-1536x1000.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1868px) 100vw, 1868px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from the children's book \"Outside, Inside\" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LeUyen Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/From-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png\">spread\u003c/a>, for example, shows a family baking bread, another family stressing over bills, a pair of smiling children playing a board game, and another a child looking bored in a virtual class. The book also acknowledges that not everyone got to stay home through an outside scene of frontline and essential workers in action and an indoor scene full of hospital rooms.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Minor’s teaching bundle, educators can find prompts for “think aloud” and “turn and talk” moments to use with specific pages. The prompts encourage children to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55882/how-keeping-a-pandemic-journal-builds-students-historical-thinking-skills-and-helps-them-cope\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">share memories from quarantine\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> through writing, drawing and talking.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55694/how-online-book-read-alouds-can-help-students-literacy-and-connection-during-social-distancing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">read aloud\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, teachers can build on the discussion by asking students to create an Outside, Inside \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pWtPaRg4ahe6JzfJkR61UCjVJPiG5dge/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">house\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or a time capsule. Minor said that these multimodal activities kids invite “to think of themselves as illustrators and writers and creators of their own story.” With the Outside, Inside house, children engage with different perspectives by seeing two views of a home and making a window to link them. In the time capsule project, students photograph memorabilia from the past year and discuss themes among items chosen by their peers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minor’s guide connects both activities to specific Common Core literacy standards related to developing and organizing ideas, writing sequences and participating in collaborative conversations.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pham has seen those skills on display during virtual school visits for \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside, Inside\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She said her recent classroom interactions have differed from when she toured for previous books. Before, children often wanted to see her illustration skills in action. Now, “it's not about what can I draw, it’s about what can you remember?” she said. “Somehow that empowers the kids to turn it onto themselves.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1866px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-57505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png\" alt=\"A page from the children's book "Outside, Inside" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \" width=\"1866\" height=\"1215\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham.png 1866w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-800x521.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-1020x664.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-768x500.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2021/03/Page-from-the-book-Outside-Inside-by-LeUyen-Pham-1536x1000.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1866px) 100vw, 1866px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page from the children's book \"Outside, Inside\" by LeUyen Pham about life during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LeUyen Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grown-ups’ reactions have surprised Pham, too. She said teachers, who have faced \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/56836/how-teachers-are-leaning-on-each-other-to-stay-resilient-during-covid-19\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">their own host of challenges\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during the pandemic, tear up while reading more often than children. And she’s heard from parents and educators whose children or students have hooked onto particular images that connected to their lives. Those adults have expressed gratitude that the book opened a dialogue when they didn’t know how to. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside, Inside\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ends on a hopeful note, with the arrival of spring, families embracing and children playing outdoors. Though we can’t write “The End” on the pandemic just yet, Pham and Minor hope that the picture book and accompanying lesson plans can be part of the healing process.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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