Health Happens in Schools

14/11/2018

3 steps this teacher took to create a diverse classroom library. 📚

An interaction with a student prompts an elementary teacher to revamp her classroom library to make it more inclusive.

13/11/2018

If you've wondered "Why am I bending over backwards to get this kid to accept responsibility?", this article will give you life.

What do you do when someone is obdurate and has no interest in taking responsibility or admitting any guilt at all?

12/11/2018

“The kids I’m educating, they come with a lot of trauma ... for me to be an effective educator, I need to address the trauma.” Do you agree with this teacher?

Panelists at Campbell Law School offered a different path to resolving conflicts — in the criminal justice system and in disciplinary situations in K-12 schools. The Restorative Justice Panel featured…

06/11/2018

We ❤️ #6!

Election Day 2018 is almost upon us, and it is a sad fact that Americans don’t vote in healthy numbers — especially our younger citizens. Elections are not won simply on the policies and issues being debated. More often than not, they are won on voter turnout. How can we get more of the populati...

05/11/2018

These California high school students are on 🔥! “Coming from a low-income community, you don’t get to have much input on what changes in the community ... Having to vote really helps me feel represented.” 🇺🇸️

Editor’s Note: We are 12 DAYS AWAY from the midterm elections and for some of our youth, it will be their first time voting. At this critical time in our political climate, voting is as important as ever. Read below to hear why voting it so important to our youth reporters. This originally ran in ...

02/11/2018

We won't wait, we can't wait, because tomorrow is TODAY!
Rise Up! The time has come to make a difference in our communities.
On November 6th, we & .

Spoken Word by Ta Karra aka Kari Jay
Artwork by ArtbyAliyah

31/10/2018

About 210,000 teens have pre-registered since 2016. 🇺🇸️More than 117,000 will have turned 18 by Election Day.

Various groups are pushing hard to register record numbers of young minority voters, emphasizing the importance of getting their voices heard.

28/10/2018

This student brilliantly breaks down why our schools need counselors not cops.

27/10/2018

Students say we must invest in : "As I got into junior high, little by little I was getting D’s and F’s. I guess nobody had ever looked, like, ‘Yo, look at his trajectory.’ I think a counselor should have asked me what was going on at home."

25/10/2018

“My last school had a school police officer on-site, and we had a probation officer on-site. We didn’t have any counselors.”

More $$ for school police means less $$ for counseling.

24/10/2018

“It was rough being pushed out of school. If you’re acting up, or if you miss a certain number of days in the week, you would get sent to in-school suspension. It was a different room near the basement and you would be there the full eight hours. It was like prison. And you’re still missing classwork, you’re still missing homework, you’re missing out on activities. I think we should be given chances. We’re young. Meditation and positive interventions, that's what we need.”

Instead of suspensions, positive interventions like restorative justice help students truly learn from their mistakes. During the Week of Action Against School Pushout, we're joining Youth Justice Coalition to speak up for .

23/10/2018

“My high school would check you in with a metal detector every day. It felt like I was in a prison. If they thought something was suspicious, we would have to take off our shirts or take down our pants. It was hard being treated like someone I’m really not. At my new school I feel safer without metal detectors.”

Metal detector searches make students feel like criminal suspects and take away from learning time. During the National Week of Action Against School Pushout, speak up for .