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  • Morgan County High School Teacher Implements Sustainability into Agriculture Curriculum

    October 20, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    A high school agriculture teacher in Georgia implements sustainable agriculture into her classes through farm visits, lectures, and student application to reach all types of learners.

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  • Two KCK schools shifting focus from punishment to make schools safer, reduce suspensions

    July 02, 2021 |

    The Kansas City Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Kansas

    Restorative discipline in classrooms is allowing students to focus on building relationships and repairing harm instead of suffering punishments. The practice prioritizes communication in an effort to emphasize community as well as reduce suspensions. The technique has had proven success in other schools, resulting in dramatic decreases in safety offenses.

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  • 'Gang Contracts' in Cicero and Berwyn Schools Raise Concerns About Criminalization of Youth

    May 26, 2021 |

    Cicero Independiente |

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    Response Location: United States, Cicero, Illinois

    "Gang contracts" are used by many schools as a way to tell students they are suspected of gang activity and must avoid such activity or face discipline or expulsion. Gang contracts have been put to extensive use in the high schools and middle schools of two towns, Cicero and Berwyn, that underwent large demographic shifts toward more Latinx residents since the 1990s. Meant to make schools safer and put students on a better path, they have been based often on vague, unsubstantiated suspicions in Cicero and Berwyn. Critics cite evidence that young people are wrongly criminalized and denied educations.

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  • With policing in the spotlight, districts search for alternatives to SROs

    May 25, 2021 |

    Concord Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Plymouth, Minnesota

    As New Hampshire schools debate the presence of police officers stationed in schools, one model they and other states can consider is found at Minnesota Intermediate School District 287. That district lowered in-school arrests dramatically by replacing school resource officers (SROs) with student safety coaches, trained in de-escalation tactics and crisis intervention. While some staff cite safety fears now, school officials say healthier relationships form between staff and students when help, not law enforcement, is the response to problems.

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  • ‘What difference would that make?'

    April 30, 2021 |

    The Chicago Reader |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A participatory budgeting pilot in ten Chicago Public Schools empowers students to influence change by deciding how small grants, typically $1,000 to $2,000, should be spent for school improvement. Students brainstorm ideas, construct persuasive proposals, and vote on which to implement, providing valuable lessons in civic participation. The proposals revealed student needs that staff hadn’t previously considered. Ultimately, grants supported gender-neutral bathrooms, locker room shower curtains, a peer mentoring program, and spaces for students to reflect and decompress when feeling overwhelmed.

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  • A teen's death by suicide with her father's gun divides a small Missouri town

    April 07, 2021 |

    The Kansas City Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Sedalia, Missouri

    Seven teen suicides in one county over a two-year span prompted residents whose lives were touched by suicide to form DeFeet, an educational and advocacy group devoted to the message that suicide is preventable. Thanks in part to its trainings, public speakers, support groups, public education campaigns, and advocacy for gun safety, local schools now screen all students for suicide risk starting in middle school. A local health clinic now screens all patients and credits DeFeet, named for its annual 5K memorial walk, with creating "an environment where we are not as afraid to talk about suicide."

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  • Fighting America's Gun Plague

    March 29, 2021 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    One of dozens of community-based anti-violence groups in New York City, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence teaches high schoolers classes on gun-violence prevention that carry an underlying message: how to fight their community's powerlessness in nonviolent ways. Former students of the program were inspired to start their own youth-focused offshoot, Youth Over Guns, and others have gone on to careers in activism or the work of directly intervening to prevent retaliatory shootings. As one of its counselors put it, he's teaching that "everybody should be an anti-gun activist now.”

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  • Mindfulness training is helping Philly students – and teachers – thrive Audio icon

    March 09, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Amy Edelstein thought that if high school students knew how to meditate they could learn how to focus, stay on track, and regulate negative self-talk. They could become better. So, in 2014 she started the Inner Strength Foundation to provide public schools with research-backed mindfulness curriculum. The curriculum has become a 12-week program, with instructors visiting classrooms in 19 schools across the city once a week.

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  • This high school reopened two months ago, with no COVID-19 outbreaks. Here's how

    March 08, 2021 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Jesuit High School in Northern California has remained open in full for two months without encountering a single outbreak of Covid-19 amongst school attendants. While it hasn't been inexpensive, the parochial school routinely conducts districtwide on-site rapid coronavirus tests and attributes this protocol to the overall success.

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  • With gun suicides on the rise, a rare hotline staffed by St. Louis teens saves lives

    March 07, 2021 |

    The Kansas City Star |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Kids Under Twenty One has taken phone calls from thousands of St. Louis-area youth to its 24/7 crisis hotline and has educated many more students at 60 schools in four counties. Teens staff the hotline, a rarity. KUTO counters the myth that talking about teens' suicide risks encouraging suicides. Instead, education about mental health care and gun safety promotes intervention during critical moments and reduces the stigma associated with seeking help. Missouri's teen suicide rate is among the highest in the country, but the St. Louis area, where KUTO has worked for 20 years, is among the state's lowest.

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