Help students manage big feelings! Create calm and happy classrooms with these
calming tools & techniques from our Executive Director Jen Fischer for Share My
Lesson.
https://sharemylesson.com/blog/calm-classroom-tools-supporting-students-positive-response
#SocialEmotionalLearning #SelfRegulation #MentalHealth #MentalWellness #Parenting #Families #Homeschooling #Education #Edutooters @education @edutooters
While biking the coastal trail Sunday eve, we met Salinas residents David, a teacher, and his daughter, Priscilla, home on spring break from her CalPoly classes.
Among the topics we touched on was April 10-13 Sea Otter Classic, which we think of as one big bike party! Who it’s for, how to get free admission, and history of #SeaOtterClassic: https://bikemonterey.org/april-10-13-sea-otter-classic-2025.html
Trump Blocked Aid for Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-blocked-aid-for-kidnapped-ukrainian
"Greg Sargent joins Jim Swift to discuss how the #Trump administration blocked aid for kidnapped #Ukrainian #children, effectively halting efforts to reunite them with their #families. They explore the political motivations, the #humanitarian impact, and the broader implications of Trump’s shifting stance on #Russia."
"#Families have begun to arrive in recent days at a #detention facility in South #Texas"
Wondering what temperatures are going to be like in south Texas in July?
Not that #Trump or #StephenMiller would worry about some trifle like that
#Families have begun to arrive in recent days at a #detention facility in South #Texas, & #immigration lawyers are expecting more to be brought in the coming days. A second detention center…is being readied for families.
Each of the facilities is being set up to hold thousands of people. At one site, lawyers say, multiple families are being detained in rooms with 4 to 8 bunk beds & shared bathroom facilities.
For decades, detaining undocumented immigrant #families has been a contentious enforcement tactic. Critics of “family detention” have said young #children suffer in #confinement. Proponents say that locking #families up while they await likely #deportation sends a *stark message* about the consequences of entering the United States illegally [#TheCrueltyIsThePoint].
Now, after falling out of use under #Biden, family #detention is being resurrected by #Trump.
#Trump Administration Revives #Detention of Immigrant #Families
Two facilities in South #Texas are being readied for undocumented parents & their #children. One site began receiving them earlier this month.
#immigration #law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #geopolitics #ConcentrationCamps
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/family-detention-immigrants-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1E32C92F-CBD6-4EA3-A4DA-31FC5CE364F1
Dads.cool and cooler.mom are Hometown Mastodon servers for parents of all kinds, including biological and non-biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents and people of all gender identities:
You can find out more at https://dads.cool/about and https://cooler.mom/about or contact the admins @alex & @sydney
Elon Musk's DOGE Cuts Hit Team Saving Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
https://www.newsweek.com/musk-doge-ukraine-children-2045330
"The #Ukrainian government has said that nearly 20,000 #children have been abducted by #Russia from the occupied territories of #Ukraine since the start of the war as part of a program to eradicate Ukrainian identity...
The decision to cut funding for the #US program could harm Ukraine's ability to reunite children with their #families."
Elon Musk’s DOGE Quietly Kills Affordable Housing Program
#Trump is making a massive cut to affordable #housing, as fears over the #economy grow.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192653/musk-doge-trump-cut-affordable-housing
" #DOGE has cut funds & programs across the federal #government without regard to the purposes they serve or the lives that depend on them. Many of the people who depend on this #HUD program are low-income #seniors or destitute #families who have little or no other options."
Get hesitant readers excited about reading with film-book pairings for National Reading Month! Check out our suggestions for films to pair with Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper and more!
https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/boost-student-engagement-with-film-book-pairings/
#NationalReadingMonth #Bookstodon #Education #Edutooters #EnglishLiterature #Homeschooling #Families #Parenting @bookstodon @education @edutooters @libraries
We want to shoutout more exciting new connections from SWSW / SWSW EDU: @TTRPGkids! Steph does amazing work to help parents, caregivers, teachers, etc. find resources to facilitate quality tabletop role playing games (TTRPGs) for kids. We were grateful to attend the Gaming Edu meet-up they co-hosted. It was great! Check them out: https://www.ttrpgkids.com/.
#TTRPGKids #SXSWEDU #SXSW #TTRPG #Education #Parenting #Families @education @edutooters
"Russia’s military intelligence service, the #GRU, paid the #Taliban & other militia bounties to attack #American soldiers in #Afghanistan... also the likely culprit behind “Havana syndrome”...left hundreds of American diplomats & #intelligence officers & their #families —including #children —with traumatic brain injury and other cognitive ailments...
It's hard to understand why #Trump is ready to make deals with #VladimirPutin"
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-courts-putin-russians-trying-kill-americans-gray-zone-hybrid-war
>6 weeks into the 2nd #Trump admin, there is a chill spreading over political debate [#speech] in Washington & beyond.
People on both sides of the aisle who would normally be part of the public dialogue about the big issues of the day say they are intimidated by the prospect of online attacks from #Trump & #ElonMusk, concerned about harm to their companies & frightened for the #safety of their #families.
#Trump officials to reopen #Texas *#detention center* for #immigrant #families
Four years after the #Biden admin stopped detaining migrant #children, a private #prison contractor says it has reached an agreement with #ICE to reopen the South Texas Family *Residential* Center in #Dilley, TX.
#immigration #law #FamilySeparation #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #CivilRights #CrimesAgainstHumanity #InternationalLaw #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/05/dilley-texas-family-detention-center-ice/
Providing children (and ourselves) with tools to manage anxiety is important. Our executive director Jen Fischer shares the books and tools that work for her family at Multicultural Kid Blogs. https://multiculturalkidblogs.com/2024/11/04/managing-anxiety-tools-and-books-that-work-for-my-family/
#Anxiety #Bookstodon #MentalHealth #MentalWellness #MentalHealthMatters #SelfCare #Education #Homeschoolig #Parenting #Families @education @mentalhealth @bookstodon
I am so frustrated that #albuquerque public school #families now need #measles information and guidance thanks to our idiot neighboring state. This is truly the stupidest timeline. Get #vaccinated everyone - don’t be a dumbass. #newmexico #texas
Ukraine Daily summary - Saturday, February 15 2025
Over 6,000 cases of Russian use of chemicals recorded over 2 years -- ‘Nuclear blackmail:’ Russia strikes Chornobyl as world leaders gather for Munich Security Conference -- Russia abandons modernization of power plants due to lack of money, equipment -- [vblog] NATO member turning pro-Russia? Inside Slovakia’s political turmoil -- JD Vance's Munich speech met with shock, bewilderment -- and more
Many Americans still imagine #rural communities as bastions of #tradition, where #marriage is widespread & #families w/lots of children abound. 25yrs ago, that would have been largely correct. No longer.
Research shows over the past 3 decades, women ages 15–44, marriage rates have fallen much faster for rural #women than their urban counterparts [who already broke the habit
]. 1988–2018, the proportion of rural women who were married fell from 55% to 33%.
#Trump recently issued new guidelines for the #Transportation Dept, surprisingly prioritizing spending & #infrastructure for “communities w/ #marriage & #birth rates higher than the national average.” In other words, communities w/large #traditional #families. We know what you’re probably thinking: That means #rural & small town America—presumably Trump’s core constituency—will disproportionately benefit from these funds.
But you could very well be wrong.
#WomensRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/12/rural-women-marriage-kids-trump-transportation/
