The Power of Strengths in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria, by co-writer, Lourdes Alvarez Oritz
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Year: 2017
Using a Strengths-Based Approach: Supporting Multilingual Learners Living with Trauma, Violence and Chronic Stress
This piece was commissioned and printed by Colorin Colorado with support from the AFT and NEA and appeared Here:Â https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/using-strengths-based-approach-els-supporting-students-living-trauma-violence-and-chronic by Dr. Debbie Zacarian, Dr. Lourdes Alvarez-Ortiz, & Judie Haynes Using a strengths-based approach allows educators to draw upon students’ internal strengths and capacities, and it can be a particularly …
Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students living with trauma, violence & chronic stress included in Hurricane Relief Effort
Honored that ASCDs Hurricane Relief Initiative includes our book. Here is information about it from ASCD. “Purchase an ASCD book from our online store from now until October 31 and use promo code “RELIEF,” and ASCD will donate one trauma-related resource, such as Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, …
Building Partnerships Through Classroom-Based Events, Debbie Zacarian & Michael Silverstone
Building Partnerships Through Classroom-Based Events, Debbie Zacarian & Michael Silverstone In the lead article of the Sept. issue of Ed Leadership, here’s how educators can design events that make families feel welcome, share their children’s learning, and integrate the rich assets they bring. As educators, we all want to build …
Teaching to Strengths: supporting students living with trauma, violence & chronic stress
TEACHING TO STRENGTHS:  SUPPORTING STUDENTS LIVING WITH TRAUMA, VIOLENCE, AND CHRONIC STRESS.  (co-written with Lourdes Alvarez-Ortiz and Judie Haynes) Half the students in U.S. schools are experiencing or have experienced trauma, violence, or chronic stress. Much has been written about these students from a therapeutic perspective, especially regarding how to provide …
Data-Driven Decisions on Effective Performance Measures of English Learners
Delighted to have contributed a chapter and be included among esteemed colleagues in Shelley Wepner and Dee Gomez co-edited and much needed book. Challenges Facing Suburban Schools Promising Responses to Changing Student Populations. Many of us might not realize the rapid demographic changes that are occurring in our nation’s suburbs and …