Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 29 (167 total reports)
12.07.2023-19.07.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Focus on children feeling safe and accepted and the academics will follow—not the other way around.
This Week’s Top Links
19.07.2023
Research: Schools Prioritizing Social-Emotional Learning See Big Academic Gains
High achieving academics come from schools where children feel safe and a sense of belonging. Research from multiple schools in Chicago prove that children who don’t feel safe and accepted, don’t (can’t) learn.
17.07.2023
Why am I online? Research shows it's often about managing emotions
https://theconversation.com/why-am-i-online-research-shows-its-often-about-managing-emotions-208483
This is a basic question, but a good question to ask ourselves and help our children ask themselves when they are online. “Why am I online right now?” It is interesting to see what the research says prompts most people to be online; it isn’t research.
16.07.2023
Raising successful kids might mean changing your definition of what that means
https://fortune.com/well/2023/07/16/how-to-raise-successful-kids-redefine-success/
It is critical to define what we call success, because if it is defined by purely monetary or authoritative terminology, those whom we would define successful are some of the least ethical people in the world today. If we expanded the term to include living a meaningful or influential life, the concept would change. But it is up to adults to wrestle with that concept and create curricula that supports it.
15.07.2023
How I’m Following the Montessori Method With My Toddler This Summer
https://theeverymom.com/montessori-summer-activities/
Dr. Marie Montessori is arguably the most important educator of the modern world. Her pedagogy is based in experience and wonder as well as learning by teaching. Applying these principles at home (group home or youth facility) will radically change the learning environment amongst students and staff.
14.07.2023
7 Empowering Tools for Young Leaders
https://apple.news/As-U7iX_9TjOIIvQnz_e2Pw
This article articulates, “The Amare Way,” as a tool for decision-making. It is worth discovering and sharing with others to create a leadership methodology in your institution, school or home, but also in the strategies we coach young people to use in making difficult decisions.
13.07.2023
Our Communities Can Only Be as Strong as Our Public Schools
https://www.the74million.org/article/our-communities-can-only-be-as-strong-as-our-public-schools/
It is time we stop focusing on what religious conservatives and their political hacks want for education and start focusing on what children will need to be able to live meaningful lives in a global economy facing shortages, climate extremes, misinformation, and authoritarianism.
12.07.2023
Why adults should read children's books
Reading children’s books is often an empathetic experience that touches the soul and opens the mind. I think of how my own life has been influenced by such books as “The Little Prince,” “The Giving Tree,” and “Where the Wild Things Are.” Of course, the greatest fun is in sharing them with a child. But reading these books and being enveloped by the author and artist’s imagination is a mindful way to deep, personal growth.
This Week’s Links
19.07.2023
Research: Schools Prioritizing Social-Emotional Learning See Big Academic Gains
Goodbye, Perfect: How to Stop Pleasing, Proving, and Pushing for Others… and Live For Yourself
No, You Don’t Have to Be Perfect. These 5 Books Explain Why
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/no-dont-perfect-5-books-explain/43772/
Cracking the Secret to Genuine Confidence
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifes-work/202307/cracking-the-secret-to-genuine-confidence
18.07.2023
What the parents' rights debate misses: the kids' right to learn to be free thinkers
https://apple.news/AsE1h6ARLTaCFCSsru3yasw
Trans kids are already at risk of suicide. How will new rules in Texas affect them?
https://apple.news/Aj_q5ULThR8-62LH8b5vO-Q
17.07.2023
Why am I online? Research shows it's often about managing emotions
https://theconversation.com/why-am-i-online-research-shows-its-often-about-managing-emotions-208483
When Arresting Librarians Is Not Enough For Republicans…
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/when-arresting-librarians-not-enough
GOP Advances Education Cuts That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers from Classrooms
16.07.2023
Raising successful kids might mean changing your definition of what that means
https://fortune.com/well/2023/07/16/how-to-raise-successful-kids-redefine-success/
How To Get Kids To Read For Fun
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliewexler/2023/07/15/how-to-get-kids-to-read-for-fun/
15.07.2023
How I’m Following the Montessori Method With My Toddler This Summer
https://theeverymom.com/montessori-summer-activities/
The 2023 Comedy Pet Photography awards – in pictures
https://apple.news/AjSRM914DTPi5-ZvZ29EV6g
The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-humanities-are-worth-fighting-for/
The 10 Best Books to Help You Take Control of Your Anxiety
https://www.verywellhealth.com/best-books-for-anxiety-7373428
14.07.2023
7 Empowering Tools for Young Leaders
https://apple.news/As-U7iX_9TjOIIvQnz_e2Pw
The Amare Way
7 Quotes by Albert Camus That Will Change The Way You Think About Life and Art
The Simple Power of Communicating with Kindness
https://apple.news/AwKIBGmcJMGmrGpvAQCKamQ
The Power of Imagination In Science
https://medium.com/illumination/the-power-of-imagination-in-science-fd8c12eda979
The Hidden Learning (Theories) of Stories
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyched/202307/the-hidden-learning-theories-of-stories
Let Me Briefly Remind You 3 Reasons Why You Should Think Before You Speak
Four Ways to Make Grief More Bearable
https://apple.news/ASdICqxZ7TrmDT1YAZVbrRQ
Reader’s Digest Releases Best 100 Books of All Time List
https://bookriot.com/readers-digest-best-100-books/
13.07.2023
Our Communities Can Only Be as Strong as Our Public Schools
https://www.the74million.org/article/our-communities-can-only-be-as-strong-as-our-public-schools/
7 Quotes by Albert Camus That Will Change The Way You Think About Life and Art
7 Empowering Tools for Young Leaders
https://apple.news/As-U7iX_9TjOIIvQnz_e2Pw
The Amare Way
This Study Shows That People With ADHD Are More Likely to Be Entrepreneurs
https://apple.news/AcwhfiNbbSg6gx84--naSYw
The Simple Power of Communicating with Kindness
https://apple.news/AwKIBGmcJMGmrGpvAQCKamQ
11 Effective Strategies To Deal With Difficult People At Work
https://www.yourtango.com/self/how-to-handle-difficult-people-work
House Republicans attach anti-LGBTQ provisions to appropriations bills
This therapist and mom posted a viral video about the different ways kids express anxiety—and it is SPOT ON
https://www.mother.ly/news/viral-trending/spotting-anxiety-in-kids-tiktok/
David French: Christian right re-embracing authoritarianism of previous eras
12.07.2023
Why adults should read children's books
Leadership soft skills: Cultivating a human-centric company culture
https://hospitalityinsights.ehl.edu/leadership-soft-skills-human-centric-company-culture
Thinking Wrong: How to Trick our Brains into Being More Innovative
https://thoughtsparks.substack.com/p/thinking-wrong-how-to-trick-our-brains