Showing posts with label Acceptance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acceptance. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Our students are experiencing trauma. We teachers need training to help them cope. Now is the perfect time to provide trauma training to teachers. Our students need and deserve it.
The following is taken from an opinion piece that was written by Gina Caneva and appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times of March 13. I believe that the writer is speaking prophetically.
In all of my years as an educator, I’ve never attended a meeting or professional development session on how to help students cope with trauma. My bet is that teachers in most districts in our country have not either.
In all of my years as an educator, I’ve never attended a meeting or professional development session on how to help students cope with trauma. My bet is that teachers in most districts in our country have not either.
Think about the last couple of years: Mentally and emotionally, we’ve been ravaged as a society. We’ve faced worldwide sickness, intensifying racial tension due to police brutality toward people of color, gun violence in some of our most safest places — our schools and churches — and a war launched by Russia just months after the war in Afghanistan ended.
Many of us watch this news unfolding on the convenience of our phones, any time we want. Doom-scrolling, as it’s called, takes a hefty mental toll on us.
Our children and young adults are not oblivious to these events. Some, like the two students mentioned earlier, experience it directly; they are a part of traumatic events. Others are deeply impacted by witnessing and watching the events, and/or by the environment these events have created. Researchers from the University of Calgary conducted studies globally during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that anxiety and depression doubled compared with before the pandemic.
As adults, we are often told kids are resilient. But we can’t ignore their trauma and just move on to the next part of the curriculum. Coping with students’ trauma should be a top priority in our professional development, taking precedence over workshops on the latest tech tool, standardized test scores or grading practices.
Teachers need tools beyond writing a pass for a student to a counselor’s office. Our students see their teachers every day, the effects of trauma often first present themselves in the classroom, and school counselors are already burdened with high caseloads.
Now is the perfect time to provide trauma training to teachers. Our students need and deserve it.
Gina Caneva is the library media specialist for East Leyden High School in Franklin Park. She taught in CPS for 15 years and is Nationally Board Certified. Follow her on Twitter @GinaCaneva
Friday, March 11, 2022
دعاء رفع الوباء يريح القلب بصوت القارئة المنشدة خديجة أزداد 🤲🏻 Khadija Azdad - Dua
Go here for additional study.
Rivers Of Babylon (The Melodians) and Jah Guide (Peter Tosh)
Rivers of Babylon
Jah Guide
These are oldies, but I don't get tired of listening to them or feeling them.
Ministry & Mental Health
Imagine with Me: Joceyln Spence from the National Benevolent Association talks about Mental Health & Ministry
Thursday, March 10, 2022
From The Methodist Federation for Social Action Statement on the Delay of General Conference
This is an excerpt from a statement from the Methodist Federation for Social Action regarding the delay of the United Methodist General conference. Please connect directly with MFSA here.
Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA) commends the Commission on General Conference for their decision to prioritize equity in the difficult decision to delay the General Conference until 2024. We acknowledge the wisdom of the commission during these turbulent times and wholly support this decision.
While the decision to delay is the best option at this time, it continues the United Methodist Church's (UMC) harm and discrimination of our LGBTQ+ siblings. The continued delay of the General Conference compounds our fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and frustration. These are all valid and natural responses, and we feel them too. We mourn, we weep, and are outraged by the perpetuation of oppression by our beloved church. We are uncertain about the future, but we are still responsible for our actions and inaction. God has dropped a plumbline in the midst of our church. We have not been centered in justice.
We do not have to wait for the General Conference or a legislative change to give us permission to seek justice. We do not have to wait for someone else with more power or authority to give us the go ahead. We can boldly work for justice even if it means we break a few unjust rules because this is what loving God and our neighbor looks like.
We call on the Council of Bishops to continue to hold in abeyance all complaints against LGBTQ+ clergy and complaints against clergy presiding over Christian marriage with LGBTQ+ couples.
Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA) commends the Commission on General Conference for their decision to prioritize equity in the difficult decision to delay the General Conference until 2024. We acknowledge the wisdom of the commission during these turbulent times and wholly support this decision.
While the decision to delay is the best option at this time, it continues the United Methodist Church's (UMC) harm and discrimination of our LGBTQ+ siblings. The continued delay of the General Conference compounds our fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and frustration. These are all valid and natural responses, and we feel them too. We mourn, we weep, and are outraged by the perpetuation of oppression by our beloved church. We are uncertain about the future, but we are still responsible for our actions and inaction. God has dropped a plumbline in the midst of our church. We have not been centered in justice.
We do not have to wait for the General Conference or a legislative change to give us permission to seek justice. We do not have to wait for someone else with more power or authority to give us the go ahead. We can boldly work for justice even if it means we break a few unjust rules because this is what loving God and our neighbor looks like.
We call on the Council of Bishops to continue to hold in abeyance all complaints against LGBTQ+ clergy and complaints against clergy presiding over Christian marriage with LGBTQ+ couples.
Saturday, March 5, 2022
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