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"content": "\u003cp>As Benito Luna-Herrera teaches his seventh grade social studies classes, he is on alert for signs of inner turmoil. And there is so much of it these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his 12-year-old students felt her world was falling apart. Distance learning had upended her friendships. Things with her boyfriend were verging on violent. Her home life was stressful. “I’m just done with it,” the girl told Luna-Herrera during the pandemic, and shared a detailed plan to kill herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another student was typically a big jokester and full of confidence. But one day she told him she didn’t want to live anymore. She, too, had a plan in place to end her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luna-Herrera is just one teacher, in one Southern California middle school, but stories of students in distress are increasingly common around the country. The silver lining is that special training helped him know what to look for and how to respond when he saw the signs of a mental emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic started, experts have warned of a mental health crisis facing American children. That is now playing out at schools in the form of increased childhood depression, anxiety, panic attacks, eating disorders, fights and thoughts of suicide at alarming levels, according to interviews with teachers, administrators, education officials and mental health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In lower-income areas, where adverse childhood experiences were high before the pandemic, the crisis is even more acute and compounded by a shortage of school staff and mental health professionals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luna-Herrera, who teaches in a high-poverty area of the Mojave Desert, is among a small but growing number of California teachers to take a course called \u003ca href=\"https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/population-focused-modules/youth/\">Youth Mental Health First Aid\u003c/a>. It teaches adults how to spot warning signs of mental health risks and substance abuse in children, and how to prevent a tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education funds the program for any school district requesting it, and the pandemic has accelerated moves to make such courses a requirement. The training program is operated by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and is available in every state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to read about another teenager where there were warning signs and we looked the other way,” said Sen. 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For children in troubled homes, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/891119510/a-look-at-pandemic-s-impact-on-recovery-for-alcoholism-and-drug-addiction\">parents who were abusive or dealing with alcohol use disorder\u003c/a>, distance learning meant they had no escape. Those who lacked technology or had spotty internet connections were isolated even more than their peers and fell further behind academically and socially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many children bounced back after the extended isolation, but for others, it may take longer.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\" Sen. Anthony Portantino\"]'I don't want to read about another teenager where there were warning signs and we looked the other way.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t assume that, ‘OK, we’re back in school, it’s been a few months and now everyone should be back to normal.’ That is not the case,” said Hoover.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kids need help when returning to school\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Returning to school after months of isolation intensified the anxiety for some children. Teachers say students have greater difficulty focusing, concentrating or sitting still, and many need to relearn how to socialize and resolve conflicts face-to-face after prolonged immersion in screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids expected to pick up where they left off but some found friendships, and their ability to cope with social stress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101888361/taking-stock-of-the-pandemics-toll-on-kids\">had changed\u003c/a>. Educators say they also see a concerning increase in apathy — about grades, how students treat each other and themselves — and a lot less empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have never seen kids be so mean to each other in my life,” said Terrin Musbach, who trains teachers in mental health awareness and other social-emotional programs at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dnusd.org/\">Del Norte Unified School District\u003c/a>, a high-poverty district in rural Northern California. “There’s more school violence, there’s more vaping, there’s more substance abuse, there’s more sexual activity, there’s more suicide ideation, there’s more of every single behavior that we would be worried about in kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many states have mandated teacher training on suicide prevention over the last decade, and the pandemic prompted some to broaden the scope to include mental health awareness and supporting behavioral health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school districts nationwide also say they need more psychologists and counselors. The Hopeful Futures Campaign, a coalition of national mental health organizations, last month published a report that found \u003ca href=\"https://hopefulfutures.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Final_Master_021522.pdf\">most states are struggling with mental health support in schools\u003c/a>. Only Idaho and the District of Columbia exceed the nationally recommended ratio of one psychologist per 500 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some states, including West Virginia, Missouri, Texas and Georgia, there is only one school psychologist for over 4,000 students, the report says. Similarly, few states meet the goal of one counselor per 250 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/budget_fy2023.pdf\">proposed $1 billion in new federal funding\u003c/a> to help schools hire more counselors and psychologists and bolster suicide prevention programs. That followed a rare pubic advisory in December from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on “the urgent need to address the nation's youth mental health crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2021, emergency room visits in the U.S. for suspected suicide attempts were 51% higher for adolescent girls and 4% higher for adolescent boys compared to the same period in 2019, according to research cited in the advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since California began offering the Youth Mental Health First Aid course in 2014, more than 8,000 teachers, administrators and school staff have been trained, said \u003ca href=\"https://steinberginstitute.org/champion/monica-nepomuceno/\">Monica Nepomuceno\u003c/a>, who oversees mental health programming at the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said much more needs to be done in the country’s largest state, which employs over 600,000 K-12 staff at schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course helps distinguish typical adolescent ways of dealing with stress — slamming doors, crying, bursts of anger — from warning signs of mental distress, which can be blatant or subtle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those signs can include when a child talks about dying or suicide, but also can be more nuanced, like saying, “I can’t do this anymore,” or “I’m tired of this,” said Tramaine EL-Amin, a spokesperson for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. More than 550,000 K-12 educators across the country have taken the Youth Mental Health First Aid course since it launched in 2012, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes in behavior could be cause for concern — a child who stops a sport or activity they were passionate about without replacing it with another one; a typically put-together child who starts to look regularly unkempt; a student whose grades plummet or who stops handing in homework; a child who eats lunch alone and has stopped palling around with their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After noticing something might be wrong, the course teaches that the next step is to ask the student without pressuring or casting judgment and letting them know you care and want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes an adult can ask a question that causes more harm than good,” said Luna-Herrera, the social studies teacher at California City Middle School, a two-hour drive into the desert from Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took the course in spring 2021 and two weeks later put it to use. It was during distance learning and a student had failed to show up for online tutoring, but he spotted her chatting online on the school’s distance learning platform, having a heated dispute with her then-boyfriend. Luna reached out to her privately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked her if she was OK,” he said. Little by little, the girl told Luna-Herrera about problems with friends and her boyfriend and problems at home that left her feeling alone and desperately unanchored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course tells adults to ask open-ended questions that keep the conversation going, and not to project themselves into an adolescent’s problems with comments like: \"You'll be fine,\" \"It's not that bad,\" \"I went through that,\" \"Try to ignore it.\" What might seem trivial to an adult can feel overwhelming for a young person, and failure to recognize that can be a conversation stopper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12-year-old told Luna-Herrera she had considered hurting herself. “Is that a recurring thought?” he asked, recalling how his heart started racing as she revealed her suicide plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like CPR first-aid training, the course teaches how to handle a crisis: Raise the alarm and get expert help. Do not leave a person contemplating suicide alone. As Luna-Herrera continued talking to the girl, he texted his school superintendent, who got the principal on the line. They called 911 and police rushed to the home, where they spoke to the girl and her mother, who was startled and unaware.[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"Related coverage\"]“He absolutely saved that child’s life,” said Mojave Unified Superintendent Katherine Aguirre, who oversees the district of about 3,000 students, the majority of whom are Latino and Black children from economically disadvantaged families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre recognized the need for behavioral health training early in the pandemic and through the Department of Education trained all of her employees, from teachers to yard supervisors and cafeteria workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's about awareness. And that Sandy Hook promise: If you see something, say something,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That did not happen with 14-year-old Taya Bruell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taya was a bright student who had started struggling with mental health issues at about 11, according to her father, Harry Bruell. At the time, the family lived in Boulder, Colorado, where Taya was hospitalized at one point for psychiatric care but kept up the trappings of a model student: She got straight A's, was co-leader of her high school writing club and in her spare time taught senior citizens to use computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a literature class, Taya was assigned to keep a journal. In it, she drew a disturbing portrait that showed self-harm and wrote about how much she hated her body and was hearing voices she wanted to silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her teacher read the assignment and wrote: “Taya, very thorough journal. I loved reading the entries. 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Educators say they also see a concerning increase in apathy — about grades, how students treat each other and themselves — and a lot less empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have never seen kids be so mean to each other in my life,” said Terrin Musbach, who trains teachers in mental health awareness and other social-emotional programs at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dnusd.org/\">Del Norte Unified School District\u003c/a>, a high-poverty district in rural Northern California. “There’s more school violence, there’s more vaping, there’s more substance abuse, there’s more sexual activity, there’s more suicide ideation, there’s more of every single behavior that we would be worried about in kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many states have mandated teacher training on suicide prevention over the last decade, and the pandemic prompted some to broaden the scope to include mental health awareness and supporting behavioral health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But school districts nationwide also say they need more psychologists and counselors. The Hopeful Futures Campaign, a coalition of national mental health organizations, last month published a report that found \u003ca href=\"https://hopefulfutures.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Final_Master_021522.pdf\">most states are struggling with mental health support in schools\u003c/a>. Only Idaho and the District of Columbia exceed the nationally recommended ratio of one psychologist per 500 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some states, including West Virginia, Missouri, Texas and Georgia, there is only one school psychologist for over 4,000 students, the report says. Similarly, few states meet the goal of one counselor per 250 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden has \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/budget_fy2023.pdf\">proposed $1 billion in new federal funding\u003c/a> to help schools hire more counselors and psychologists and bolster suicide prevention programs. That followed a rare pubic advisory in December from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on “the urgent need to address the nation's youth mental health crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2021, emergency room visits in the U.S. for suspected suicide attempts were 51% higher for adolescent girls and 4% higher for adolescent boys compared to the same period in 2019, according to research cited in the advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since California began offering the Youth Mental Health First Aid course in 2014, more than 8,000 teachers, administrators and school staff have been trained, said \u003ca href=\"https://steinberginstitute.org/champion/monica-nepomuceno/\">Monica Nepomuceno\u003c/a>, who oversees mental health programming at the California Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said much more needs to be done in the country’s largest state, which employs over 600,000 K-12 staff at schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course helps distinguish typical adolescent ways of dealing with stress — slamming doors, crying, bursts of anger — from warning signs of mental distress, which can be blatant or subtle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those signs can include when a child talks about dying or suicide, but also can be more nuanced, like saying, “I can’t do this anymore,” or “I’m tired of this,” said Tramaine EL-Amin, a spokesperson for the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. More than 550,000 K-12 educators across the country have taken the Youth Mental Health First Aid course since it launched in 2012, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes in behavior could be cause for concern — a child who stops a sport or activity they were passionate about without replacing it with another one; a typically put-together child who starts to look regularly unkempt; a student whose grades plummet or who stops handing in homework; a child who eats lunch alone and has stopped palling around with their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After noticing something might be wrong, the course teaches that the next step is to ask the student without pressuring or casting judgment and letting them know you care and want to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes an adult can ask a question that causes more harm than good,” said Luna-Herrera, the social studies teacher at California City Middle School, a two-hour drive into the desert from Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took the course in spring 2021 and two weeks later put it to use. It was during distance learning and a student had failed to show up for online tutoring, but he spotted her chatting online on the school’s distance learning platform, having a heated dispute with her then-boyfriend. Luna reached out to her privately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked her if she was OK,” he said. Little by little, the girl told Luna-Herrera about problems with friends and her boyfriend and problems at home that left her feeling alone and desperately unanchored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course tells adults to ask open-ended questions that keep the conversation going, and not to project themselves into an adolescent’s problems with comments like: \"You'll be fine,\" \"It's not that bad,\" \"I went through that,\" \"Try to ignore it.\" What might seem trivial to an adult can feel overwhelming for a young person, and failure to recognize that can be a conversation stopper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12-year-old told Luna-Herrera she had considered hurting herself. “Is that a recurring thought?” he asked, recalling how his heart started racing as she revealed her suicide plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like CPR first-aid training, the course teaches how to handle a crisis: Raise the alarm and get expert help. Do not leave a person contemplating suicide alone. As Luna-Herrera continued talking to the girl, he texted his school superintendent, who got the principal on the line. They called 911 and police rushed to the home, where they spoke to the girl and her mother, who was startled and unaware.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He absolutely saved that child’s life,” said Mojave Unified Superintendent Katherine Aguirre, who oversees the district of about 3,000 students, the majority of whom are Latino and Black children from economically disadvantaged families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aguirre recognized the need for behavioral health training early in the pandemic and through the Department of Education trained all of her employees, from teachers to yard supervisors and cafeteria workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's about awareness. And that Sandy Hook promise: If you see something, say something,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That did not happen with 14-year-old Taya Bruell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taya was a bright student who had started struggling with mental health issues at about 11, according to her father, Harry Bruell. At the time, the family lived in Boulder, Colorado, where Taya was hospitalized at one point for psychiatric care but kept up the trappings of a model student: She got straight A's, was co-leader of her high school writing club and in her spare time taught senior citizens to use computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a literature class, Taya was assigned to keep a journal. In it, she drew a disturbing portrait that showed self-harm and wrote about how much she hated her body and was hearing voices she wanted to silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her teacher read the assignment and wrote: “Taya, very thorough journal. I loved reading the entries. A+.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months later, in February 2016, Taya killed herself. After her death, Taya’s parents discovered the journal in her room and brought it to the school, where they learned Taya’s teacher had not informed the school counselor or administrators of what she had seen. They don’t blame the teacher but will always wonder what would have happened if she had not ignored the signs of danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the teacher wanted to hurt our daughter. I think she had no idea what to do when she read those stark warning signs in Taya’s journal,” said her father, who has since relocated with the family to Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes legislation to require teacher training in behavioral health will save lives: “It teaches you to raise the alarm, and not just walk away, which is what happened to Taya.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keana Reece always makes sure she is last in line when she drops off her 4-year-old son, Tyran, at preschool, so she can minimize the trauma of handing him off to his teacher. As she leads him in by the hand, she gives him the pep talk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Remember: My name is Tyran. I am loved. I am worthy. And I'm highly intelligent. Got it?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tyran has nonverbal autism, so Reece has come to intuit his every gesture and sound. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early signs of autism can appear in children during their first two years of life, with\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/autism-spectrum-disorder-communication-problems-children\"> some children becoming verbal as they grow older\u003c/a>. Reece is wearing her “I Love Someone With Autism” T-shirt as she walks up to the classroom door. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You know the drill. Big boys on one side of the door, mommies on the other,” Reece tells him. Tyran starts to cry as he’s led in, and Reece turns away. \"This is the hardest part of my day,\" she admits.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reece brings her son here in the afternoons to a special education preschool at the Hayward Unified School District’s Student Information and Assessment Center (SIAC). But she often feels like it's hard to get the school to respond to what she knows is best for her son. \u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Keana Reece, parent\"]'It's a ton of work, but it's either do the work or let him fall under the bridge. It's the educational system.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I talk to the teacher maybe two minutes a week. They take him in. They bring him out. I don't know what he's learning. I don't know anything,” Reece said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the Hayward school district seemed to give her the runaround on buying a new electronic PECS board — a speech tablet that would make it easier for Tyran to communicate — she saved up and sacrificed to buy one herself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When she learned the preschool wouldn’t do inclusion, where Tyran could be with children who did not have disabilities, she began looking for one that would. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's disheartening because I know who he is, I know what he's capable of. When I look at him, I see greatness,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's a ton of work, but it's either do the work or let him fall under the bridge. It's the educational system. I just don't know how to navigate the system, and it's overwhelming.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That kind of stress can take a toll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was so involved in Tyran and making sure our time was together and making sure the house was together, making sure my husband was together. That Keana was falling by the wayside, and some days it was four or five o'clock and I realized I hadn't eaten anything all day,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11909837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Four children are climbing on a playground structure outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids play at The Primary School East Bay on Oct. 13, 2021. Children with health care needs are seen by Kaiser medical staff who coordinate solutions with teachers and parents. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parenting during the pandemic has been rough on a lot of families. According to research done by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.626456/full\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frontiers in Psychiatry\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, parents reported increased stress due to difficulty in parenting, with 1 in 5 reporting high stress over the course of the pandemic. Children's resulting social and emotional issues have been showing up inside school classrooms. But while \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908813/california-to-funnel-billions-into-mental-health-resources-for-young-people-but-will-it-come-soon-enough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908813/california-to-funnel-billions-into-mental-health-resources-for-young-people-but-will-it-come-soon-enough\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">billions in pandemic tax dollars\u003c/a> have been allocated to help schools with kids’ mental health, little has been done for parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It took Reece finding a new preschool to get the help she needed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reece has a trusting relationship with her pediatrician at the Kaiser Hayward-Sleepy Hollow medical clinic. So when she got an email from him about a new public preschool that Kaiser physicians were helping design, she was intrigued.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What she found was a place where she would get to be part of Tyran’s education, and where school staff would treat her as an equal partner. They would also give her a personal coach who would check in with her biweekly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If there's something at school that I just can't talk to the teacher about or I don't know who to go to, I can call Diane,” said Reece. “‘Hey, this is my problem, what do I do?’ And if it's something that I just can't bring up, she'll say, ‘I'll talk to them.’ So by the time they come to me, the issue was already brought out and the awkwardness of the situation has been taken away. It is pretty amazing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The publicly funded preschool, called The Primary School East Bay, costs Reece nothing. The school prioritizes families who qualify based on income and enrolls them on a rolling basis when spots are available. Reece can also still keep Tyran in the traditional public school special education class in the afternoons, giving her full-day preschool. This allows her to keep her payroll job at the city of Oakland, though it means shuttling Tyran between schools during her lunch hour.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was something else about this new school that appealed to her: It would have Kaiser medical staff on campus twice a week.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the school, Dr. Paul Espinas points out two medical assistants and a nurse, all Kaiser staff, working outside at tables in the school’s grassy playground. Espinas is a Kaiser pediatrician and medical director at the preschool, which means he meets weekly with school staff to coordinate care for kids and their families.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We should honor the work that school nurses have done in the area. We should honor the work that our school-based health clinics have done. But I feel like a lot of families are still trapped, trapped ping-ponging between different organizations within their community,” said Espinas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Espinas had seen parents struggling to navigate the health care system, describing times when he’d screen a child for a developmental issue and make a referral, and the parent wouldn’t follow up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And if they don't make it, and I see them a year later still needing speech therapy or the speech, the speech problems are worse. Like, I feel like that's a systems fail on our part,” said Espinas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Espinas says the clinic’s doctors work directly with teachers at the school to help parents schedule appointments, make sure families bring kids in for vaccines, or get the asthma medication they need. He said the teachers’ role in helping reach out to parents is pivotal, and called the intensive team effort unique.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If we get this model right, other systems hopefully will replicate it. Other Kaisers, other big health systems,” said Espinas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reece says the coordination takes stress off her. “I don't have a medical background and I don't have an educational background, either,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When teachers at Hayward’s district-run preschool sends her to Tyran’s pediatrician to get more information about what Tyran needs, by the time she gets back to the school with the information, she has it confused. She said, \"I have answers, but I'm sure they're not as accurate as my Kaiser physician saying, 'I'll let the school know.'\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because Kaiser staff communicate directly with The Primary School East Bay, now when Reece shows up at the school, teachers already have information her doctor has sent them, and she can sit down with staff to discuss next steps to best assist Tyran.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers are also benefiting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Remember last year during COVID? I didn't necessarily have to come up with a health plan. Our on-site doctor did,” explained Denise Laney, lead teacher at the school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“As a teacher, I have had students come into my classroom with not the appropriate attire for the weather. I've had students that come in complaining of hunger. I've had families say, 'Hey, I know that my student needs glasses, but I can't afford it.' I know that someone's been complaining, their tooth hurting, but I'm not sure what to do, and we have resources for all of that.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having health care staff on site also allows these early childhood educators to remain focused on teaching and creating a respectful way of including and engaging parents in how to best support their kids.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So that we really are able to learn to not just assume things, but to ask a lot of open-ended questions,” said Natasha Hall-Sevilla, manager of parent wellness coaching. “To really learn and understand what our families are going through so that we can change ourselves, and change how we show up for families.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All this can mean extra hours for teachers. But Laney says teachers like her are getting paid more than the norm for early childhood educators who have long complained about being undervalued. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are only 48 children enrolled in The Primary School East Bay — three classrooms each with two teachers and a total staff of 15. So far, the estimated cost of the state-funded preschool is about $20,000 per child, with some of that coming from philanthropy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there are other schools nationwide educators cite as the models they used to develop The Primary School East Bay, including the privately funded The Primary School in East Palo Alto, the East Bay school operates using state tax dollars. As it adds grades, it hopes to prove this kind of intensive wraparound support for families with public funding.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11909836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Children and adults sit on the floor in a classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children gather around an instructor while Tyran is cradled by his applied behavior analysis therapist, to be part of a regular preschool class at The Primary School East Bay. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California is investing a historic $3 billion over the next five years to expand the community schools model. The goal is to make high-poverty schools into one-stop shops, serving students' social and emotional needs and, by extension, the needs of their families. The state is investing an additional $1 billion to help schools provide mental health services through partnerships with community health organizations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courtney Garcia oversees both The Primary School locations, and says public systems are not currently set up for different agencies to coordinate seamlessly and in a family-centered way, which complicates caregivers’ lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Parents really express, many of them, isolation, overwhelm and so many stressors that can make it really difficult for them to reach out and seek help, can make it difficult for them to overcome barriers to accessing resources that are there to serve their child and to serve their family in many cases,” Garcia said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia points out that for children and families in Alameda who qualify for Medi-Cal, only 43% of children are having their annual preventive checkups. At The Primary School East Bay, 100% of students have had those checkups in the past year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaiser Permanente calls this integrated care between its medical staff and the school staff promising, though it wouldn’t say what share of the costs it was carrying. If Kaiser Permanente, one of California’s largest health care providers, were to supply medical staff to public schools, it could be a game changer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This kind of coordination between her local health clinic and her school does take some stress out of Reece’s life, but not all of it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When things get overwhelming, she turns to the parent coach hired by the school to focus on her well-being. The coach works with 40 to 50 parents. Hall-Sevilla, the parent coach coordinator, says coaches work on parent wellness, nutrition and stress management.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And I'll say, 'Oh, my gosh, it sounds like you are really stressed out. I can hear and sense the stress in your voice. Would you be OK to take a breath with me?' And so we stop and we take a deep breath, and then they're able to continue on,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coaches also guide parents and guardians toward reaching their own goals, checking in every two weeks. Reece and other parents also are part of a monthly wellness group of parents who support one another.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before they found The Primary School East Bay, Reece and her husband talked about her homeschooling Tyran, even though it would have meant giving up her job. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I talk to the teacher maybe two minutes a week. They take him in. They bring him out. I don't know what he's learning. I don't know anything,” Reece said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the Hayward school district seemed to give her the runaround on buying a new electronic PECS board — a speech tablet that would make it easier for Tyran to communicate — she saved up and sacrificed to buy one herself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When she learned the preschool wouldn’t do inclusion, where Tyran could be with children who did not have disabilities, she began looking for one that would. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's disheartening because I know who he is, I know what he's capable of. When I look at him, I see greatness,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It's a ton of work, but it's either do the work or let him fall under the bridge. It's the educational system. I just don't know how to navigate the system, and it's overwhelming.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That kind of stress can take a toll.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was so involved in Tyran and making sure our time was together and making sure the house was together, making sure my husband was together. That Keana was falling by the wayside, and some days it was four or five o'clock and I realized I hadn't eaten anything all day,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003cb> \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11909837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Four children are climbing on a playground structure outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6352-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids play at The Primary School East Bay on Oct. 13, 2021. Children with health care needs are seen by Kaiser medical staff who coordinate solutions with teachers and parents. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parenting during the pandemic has been rough on a lot of families. According to research done by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.626456/full\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frontiers in Psychiatry\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, parents reported increased stress due to difficulty in parenting, with 1 in 5 reporting high stress over the course of the pandemic. Children's resulting social and emotional issues have been showing up inside school classrooms. But while \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908813/california-to-funnel-billions-into-mental-health-resources-for-young-people-but-will-it-come-soon-enough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908813/california-to-funnel-billions-into-mental-health-resources-for-young-people-but-will-it-come-soon-enough\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">billions in pandemic tax dollars\u003c/a> have been allocated to help schools with kids’ mental health, little has been done for parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It took Reece finding a new preschool to get the help she needed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reece has a trusting relationship with her pediatrician at the Kaiser Hayward-Sleepy Hollow medical clinic. So when she got an email from him about a new public preschool that Kaiser physicians were helping design, she was intrigued.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What she found was a place where she would get to be part of Tyran’s education, and where school staff would treat her as an equal partner. They would also give her a personal coach who would check in with her biweekly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If there's something at school that I just can't talk to the teacher about or I don't know who to go to, I can call Diane,” said Reece. “‘Hey, this is my problem, what do I do?’ And if it's something that I just can't bring up, she'll say, ‘I'll talk to them.’ So by the time they come to me, the issue was already brought out and the awkwardness of the situation has been taken away. It is pretty amazing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The publicly funded preschool, called The Primary School East Bay, costs Reece nothing. The school prioritizes families who qualify based on income and enrolls them on a rolling basis when spots are available. Reece can also still keep Tyran in the traditional public school special education class in the afternoons, giving her full-day preschool. This allows her to keep her payroll job at the city of Oakland, though it means shuttling Tyran between schools during her lunch hour.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was something else about this new school that appealed to her: It would have Kaiser medical staff on campus twice a week.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inside the school, Dr. Paul Espinas points out two medical assistants and a nurse, all Kaiser staff, working outside at tables in the school’s grassy playground. Espinas is a Kaiser pediatrician and medical director at the preschool, which means he meets weekly with school staff to coordinate care for kids and their families.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We should honor the work that school nurses have done in the area. We should honor the work that our school-based health clinics have done. But I feel like a lot of families are still trapped, trapped ping-ponging between different organizations within their community,” said Espinas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Espinas had seen parents struggling to navigate the health care system, describing times when he’d screen a child for a developmental issue and make a referral, and the parent wouldn’t follow up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And if they don't make it, and I see them a year later still needing speech therapy or the speech, the speech problems are worse. Like, I feel like that's a systems fail on our part,” said Espinas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Espinas says the clinic’s doctors work directly with teachers at the school to help parents schedule appointments, make sure families bring kids in for vaccines, or get the asthma medication they need. He said the teachers’ role in helping reach out to parents is pivotal, and called the intensive team effort unique.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If we get this model right, other systems hopefully will replicate it. Other Kaisers, other big health systems,” said Espinas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reece says the coordination takes stress off her. “I don't have a medical background and I don't have an educational background, either,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When teachers at Hayward’s district-run preschool sends her to Tyran’s pediatrician to get more information about what Tyran needs, by the time she gets back to the school with the information, she has it confused. She said, \"I have answers, but I'm sure they're not as accurate as my Kaiser physician saying, 'I'll let the school know.'\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because Kaiser staff communicate directly with The Primary School East Bay, now when Reece shows up at the school, teachers already have information her doctor has sent them, and she can sit down with staff to discuss next steps to best assist Tyran.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers are also benefiting. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Remember last year during COVID? I didn't necessarily have to come up with a health plan. Our on-site doctor did,” explained Denise Laney, lead teacher at the school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“As a teacher, I have had students come into my classroom with not the appropriate attire for the weather. I've had students that come in complaining of hunger. I've had families say, 'Hey, I know that my student needs glasses, but I can't afford it.' I know that someone's been complaining, their tooth hurting, but I'm not sure what to do, and we have resources for all of that.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having health care staff on site also allows these early childhood educators to remain focused on teaching and creating a respectful way of including and engaging parents in how to best support their kids.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So that we really are able to learn to not just assume things, but to ask a lot of open-ended questions,” said Natasha Hall-Sevilla, manager of parent wellness coaching. “To really learn and understand what our families are going through so that we can change ourselves, and change how we show up for families.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All this can mean extra hours for teachers. But Laney says teachers like her are getting paid more than the norm for early childhood educators who have long complained about being undervalued. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are only 48 children enrolled in The Primary School East Bay — three classrooms each with two teachers and a total staff of 15. So far, the estimated cost of the state-funded preschool is about $20,000 per child, with some of that coming from philanthropy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there are other schools nationwide educators cite as the models they used to develop The Primary School East Bay, including the privately funded The Primary School in East Palo Alto, the East Bay school operates using state tax dollars. As it adds grades, it hopes to prove this kind of intensive wraparound support for families with public funding.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11909836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Children and adults sit on the floor in a classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_6346-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children gather around an instructor while Tyran is cradled by his applied behavior analysis therapist, to be part of a regular preschool class at The Primary School East Bay. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California is investing a historic $3 billion over the next five years to expand the community schools model. The goal is to make high-poverty schools into one-stop shops, serving students' social and emotional needs and, by extension, the needs of their families. The state is investing an additional $1 billion to help schools provide mental health services through partnerships with community health organizations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courtney Garcia oversees both The Primary School locations, and says public systems are not currently set up for different agencies to coordinate seamlessly and in a family-centered way, which complicates caregivers’ lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Parents really express, many of them, isolation, overwhelm and so many stressors that can make it really difficult for them to reach out and seek help, can make it difficult for them to overcome barriers to accessing resources that are there to serve their child and to serve their family in many cases,” Garcia said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garcia points out that for children and families in Alameda who qualify for Medi-Cal, only 43% of children are having their annual preventive checkups. At The Primary School East Bay, 100% of students have had those checkups in the past year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaiser Permanente calls this integrated care between its medical staff and the school staff promising, though it wouldn’t say what share of the costs it was carrying. If Kaiser Permanente, one of California’s largest health care providers, were to supply medical staff to public schools, it could be a game changer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This kind of coordination between her local health clinic and her school does take some stress out of Reece’s life, but not all of it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When things get overwhelming, she turns to the parent coach hired by the school to focus on her well-being. The coach works with 40 to 50 parents. Hall-Sevilla, the parent coach coordinator, says coaches work on parent wellness, nutrition and stress management.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And I'll say, 'Oh, my gosh, it sounds like you are really stressed out. I can hear and sense the stress in your voice. Would you be OK to take a breath with me?' And so we stop and we take a deep breath, and then they're able to continue on,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coaches also guide parents and guardians toward reaching their own goals, checking in every two weeks. Reece and other parents also are part of a monthly wellness group of parents who support one another.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before they found The Primary School East Bay, Reece and her husband talked about her homeschooling Tyran, even though it would have meant giving up her job. They both decided Tyran’s needs have to come first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In my mind now, I don’t care if he's autistic, he's still going to grow up, he's still going to get married, he's still going to have kids … he's still, you know, he's still going to be a force to reckon with in this world,” she said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reece has worked hard to get Tyran into the right preschool where she believes he can thrive. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now she just has to find the right place for him to go to kindergarten.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/education/#:~:text=CDPH%20strongly%20recommends%20everyone%20continue,the%202021%2D2022%20school%20year.\">Today is the first day\u003c/a> many kids in California can see each other smile or frown throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the state just ended it's indoor mask mandate for schools — the first time kids have had the option to lower their face coverings since most of them returned to in-person classes last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace Richards is thrilled she doesn’t have to wear her Hello Kitty mask to second grade at her elementary school in Petaluma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can finally take it off and we can finally see everybody's personality!\" said Richards, smiling. “I know I’m going to be safe because we have to stay an arm's distance away from each other while eating and drinking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not exactly true. Richards is still at risk if she’s sitting near someone who's infected. 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Ten-year-old Kenley Gupta, a fourth grader at Montclair Elementary School in Oakland, doesn’t like her mask, but she’s not quite ready to toss it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of the time it's really uncomfortable and it keeps sliding down my nose,” said Gupta. “It’s just a burden hanging over me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, she says, it’s also scary to take off her pink, tie-dyed mask. \"The virus is still simmering down so I just think it’s best to be safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_0229-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908263\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/IMG_0229-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two children wearing masks stand on the playground. 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Kadel also highlights some other pros and cons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appreciate that it hides my zits,” she said. “But it’s hard to breathe when I’m running in PE and it’s difficult to see what people look like.”[aside postID=\"news_11907526,forum_2010101888227,news_11906730\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Kadel is going to wait a week or two before showing her full face. She won’t be alone. State officials are still “strongly recommending” mask wearing in K-12 schools, rather than simply advising it or making it optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing mask protocols could be hard for some kids to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's natural for children to feel some anxiety,” said \u003ca href=\"https://childmind.org/bio/jennifer-louie-phd/\">Jennifer Louie\u003c/a>, a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, a nonprofit specializing in kids' mental health. “They might need time. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kadel is going to wait a week or two before showing her full face. She won’t be alone. State officials are still “strongly recommending” mask wearing in K-12 schools, rather than simply advising it or making it optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing mask protocols could be hard for some kids to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's natural for children to feel some anxiety,” said \u003ca href=\"https://childmind.org/bio/jennifer-louie-phd/\">Jennifer Louie\u003c/a>, a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, a nonprofit specializing in kids' mental health. “They might need time. Parents can give them reassurance and support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie recommends parents transition kids slowly by asking them lots of questions about how they feel, and says it’s important to validate whatever the child says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Like, 'Oh, yeah, that makes sense, that you're nervous. I'm a little nervous, too. We've been doing it this way for so long,'\" said Louie. \"And that can really help ease their anxiety. 'Oh, the grown-ups have thought about this. It makes sense.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says kids need a thorough explanation of why the situation is safer now. Parents can talk about how case rates have dropped substantially and vaccines are widely available. These are details that help kids understand it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie says it’s also probably wise to warn kids they might have to put their masks back on if another variant emerges and cases surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Hector Pineda arrived for an all-staff meeting last Monday at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood, he found colleagues on their phones, frantically checking their bank accounts. Word was spreading fast that there was something wrong with their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pineda, a seventh grade social studies teacher in the sixth year of his career, quickly discovered he was missing a large chunk of money. “I moved money from savings into my checking account to cover my rent,” Pineda said. “Fortunately I had that and a supportive partner, or I would have been in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district owes another teacher, Kyle Prince, $4,500. Prince teaches ethnic studies at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School, also in the Portola, and was still getting paid for that work. But he also depends on income from teaching at the district’s online school and night school. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Elisa Romero, SFUSD school counselor\"]'I will be wiping out a lot of savings to pay this and it feels like a punch in the stomach. I owe a lot of money because the district screwed up.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as he was about to pay for his wedding, Prince found he was being shortchanged. “Graciously, I have family to support me, so I turned to them. And my fiancée, we had a little bit in savings,” Prince said. He has so far recovered just $1,200 of the $4,500 he has calculated he is missing, months after he reported the errors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love my job and I love teaching, but it's been really tough working the extra hours and, all of a sudden, not knowing how your paycheck is supposed to be,” Prince said. “And no one has been able to tell me anything concrete. It seems like they're building a boat as it's afloat. I've gotten conflicting information from even the higher-ups, you know, from the principals and the coordinators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 1,500 educators in the San Francisco school district may not be receiving their full paychecks or haven’t been paid at all in the last month, according to United Educators of San Francisco, the teachers union, which represents some 6,500 educators in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem stems from the district switching to a new accounting system, but may also speak to deeper troubles in its finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turmoil comes as the district and school board leadership are under intense scrutiny for their inability to successfully manage finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Dudnick, a spokesperson for the district, issued a statement saying the district apologizes, takes full responsibility and is trying to fix the issue, blaming problems on the transition from an antiquated payroll system to EMPowerSF, the new system that cost the district $9.5 million to install.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is inexcusable and should not have happened,” Dudnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says the vast majority of its 10,000 employees have been properly paid through the new system, even as a growing number of teachers are reporting irregularities on their monthly paychecks — issues that first emerged two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has since moved 10 administrative staff from other duties to support payroll, a district spokesperson said in a statement, adding that staff are “working to figure out any error patterns caused by the new process or system configuration so that corrections are made for subsequent pay periods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1196px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908039\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in a room, smiling, wearing a yellow jacket, perched on the armrest of a sofa.\" width=\"1196\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg 1196w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-800x666.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-1020x849.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-160x133.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Prince, who teaches ethnic studies at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco, says he has been waiting three months for his missing pay from the district. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Kyle Prince)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Prince, most of the educators affected are those who have additional jobs outside their main teaching positions — including those working extra hours as paraeducators, substitute teachers or Saturday school instructors.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some teachers, including those on leave, also have reported issues with benefits and withholdings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elisa Romero, a counselor with the district, got a call from her accountant last week. “My accountant was shocked. He told me I owed $8,000 between federal and state [taxes]. I usually owe about $2,000 every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Romero told the district it had under-withheld her taxes in 2021, she said the district told her to go and change her withholding for the current year. But that won’t fix this year's problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will be wiping out a lot of savings to pay this and it feels like a punch in the stomach. I owe a lot of money because the district screwed up,” she said. “It's a bitter pill to swallow. It's very hard to come up with $8,000 by April 18, and I am considering selling my mutual funds to cover it. It just really brought me to tears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the initial cost of installing the new payroll system, the school board last year approved two more payments for transition costs, totaling an additional $4.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said the additional money was needed for more transitional time and prep,” said school board commissioner Matt Alexander, noting his frustration. “They wanted all that money to make for a smooth rollout, but all the stuff that they were trying to prevent is happening. It is anything but smooth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a hundred educators had to take time off teaching and parent-teacher conferences last week to attend a district pop-up clinic to try to fix their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the district has made out 861 new checks to educators, according to the teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it has set up a support-ticketing system to help accurately track and follow up on every issue of nonpayment or underpayment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linh Gee, an English teacher at Burton High, said she filed several tickets since realizing the district underpaid her roughly $4,500 — and was told a payroll specialist would assist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's the third time that I've submitted the ticket, and so far no one has reached out to me,” said Gee, who also teaches online and night classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman smiling.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burton High teacher Linh Gee says she has filed multiple help tickets with the district to recoup the nearly $4,500 the district owes her. She is still waiting. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Linh Gee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, this year has been really rough to begin with already. So to do your job to help kids who are not your regular day-to-day, do this and then to not get paid,” Gee said. “I have been very patient, but it's infuriating. Like you're not respecting the work that we're doing,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee said she got an email from the district Friday morning telling her to check her bank account, and found it had deposited just $130 of the $4,500 she's owed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s demoralizing,” she said.[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More education coverage\"]Gee said she and other teachers are now spending time outside of their workdays trying to troubleshoot accounting problems created by the district’s poor rollout of the new system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Check your bank account, check your bank account! 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"content": "\u003cp>In a highly anticipated move, San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday appointed three new members to the San Francisco school board Friday, filling seats that were vacated after last month’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">landslide recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a ceremony at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, Breed’s alma mater, the mayor swore in Ann Hsu, Lainie Motamedi and Lisa Weissman-Ward, who will join the seven-member Board of Education. All three women are parents of students currently in the district and, like Breed, have called for greater fiscal responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so happy and I’m so proud that we have three amazing women who all have kids in our public school system, who all had a common theme of service,” said Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They replace Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga, who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101887882/san-francisco-votes-out-three-school-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ousted in a citywide recall vote\u003c/a> on Feb. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three new commissioners will complete the remaining terms of their ousted predecessors, which end this year. All three face reelection campaigns in November, should they wish to keep their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed, who supported the recall, said her pick decisions came after what she described as weeks of meetings with parents and candidate interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve really agonized over this decision,” Breed said. “This is probably the hardest decision that I’ve ever had to make as mayor because it’s about the future of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly composed board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905617/the-sf-school-board-recall-won-in-a-landslide-now-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immediately face a complex set of issues\u003c/a> and, potentially, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freshly energized parent base closely watching over their shoulders\u003c/a>. Vincent Matthews, the district’s current superintendent, has said he is stepping down in June, so the new board will be charged with hiring his successor. Many parents who supported the recall said they wanted a more competent board to select the district’s next leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, the president of Galileo’s Parent Teacher Student Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904873/political-ads-in-sf-school-board-recall-election-target-chinese-speaking-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared in pro-recall advertisements\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked to register Asian American voters\u003c/a> ahead of the special election. She also serves on the SFUSD Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board-recall\"]“Being a first-generation immigrant, I also want to lift up the concerns and interests of the significant immigrant parents community in SFUSD,” said Hsu, who lives in the Richmond District, and started her own business after emigrating from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motamedi, from the city’s Inner Sunset neighborhood, also has firsthand experience working with San Francisco’s school district, where she helped to oversee school spending as a co-chair of the district’s Public Education Enrichment Fund committee. She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> also served as a member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/lcap-task-force\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Control and Accountability Plan task force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus is to bring my experience and our collective experience to help all families and children in this city to get the support they need as we do the really, really challenging work to get our district back on track,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward, Breed’s third appointee, lives in the Mission District and is associate director of the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Joining the board after years of contentious meetings that have at times erupted in bitter clashes among members, parents and students, she underscored the “importance of process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned the value and importance of investing time into building rapport in order to better find common ground,” she said. “Because if even at the outset we don’t agree, when we engage in a process that’s thoughtful, that’s transparent and that’s fair, we’ll be in a better position to move things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new superintendent and board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">be tasked with long-standing issues\u003c/a>, such as falling enrollment and racial gaps in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also is currently trying to solve problems with a new payroll operating system it began using in January. The transition to the new program has left some 200 educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/sfusd-employees-feel-disrespected-after-missing-full-or-partial-paychecks/\">either underpaid or without checks at all\u003c/a>, and is causing problems for nearly 1,000 more, according to the United Educators of San Francisco, which is threatening a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also looming large are the final budget cuts that need approval to solve the district’s $125 million budget deficit. The outgoing board approved all but $3.8 million in cuts, refusing to lay off some 47 paraeducator positions. Instead, it asked the district to cut more management positions, and delayed delivery of its second interim budget report to the state — which it now must submit by March 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we fight for the schools our students deserve, we look forward to working with the 3 BOE appointees,” the city’s teachers union said in a statement. “Educators know our students deserve stable, staffed & funded schools to thrive and hope the BOE is prepared to work with educators, families & our communities to achieve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite waning COVID-19 case levels in the city, the pandemic continues to pose challenges to how schools are run. Beginning on March 14, indoor masking will be optional for the district’s middle and high school students, with elementary schools following suit on April 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some parents of children who are immunocompromised continue to speak out against the policy change, and the new board will certainly be managing how the district responds to any future variants. Frustration over the district’s decision to delay reopening schools during the pandemic was a major factor fueling the recall movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most politically fraught issue facing the new board members, however, is the admissions policy at the city’s elite Lowell High School. It remains to be seen whether the new board will bow to intense pressure from some parents and alumni to reinstate the school’s merit-based admissions policy, or keep in place the new lottery system, which has helped significantly increase the number of Black and Latino students in this year’s freshman class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/why-californias-education-code-does-not-prohibit-academic-admissions-at-lowell-high-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arguments from the Lowell Alumni Association\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C9CSB26EC44E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">district has maintained\u003c/a> that a return to admissions based on academic performance would violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questionnaires from the supporters of the recall campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/ann-hsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/lainie-motamedi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motamedi\u003c/a> both said they would support reinstating Lowell’s merit-based admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward stopped short of saying where she stood on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a general matter I’ll say I support equity, I support access and I support academically rigorous programs and I think as many people that can be a part of that is what I support,” she said on Friday. “And we probably need to be lifting up and having more schools that are able to allow students to have these academically rigorous programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next regularly scheduled board meeting is March 22, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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