As a country we have experienced a year where students have been isolated and had significant negative impact from COVID-19. It has created loss of learning, anxiety, depression, and general brain dysregulation. Students who have had these adversities along with other issues will simply not do well in a traditional school. In light of this […]
Recognizing Fair-Weather Friends
A good friend of mine was recently diagnosed with cancer. Her prognosis is excellent, but she has had to go through some surgeries, radiation and lastly chemo. The chemo treatments wipe her out for about 12 days and then she returns to being her normal pre-chemo self, albeit with extra exhaustion. Of course, emotionally she […]
Students Taking a Break for Calm
Educators are experiencing a great deal of angst from their students who have returned from the effects of the pandemic. I know our school staff and our counselors at Lakeside have seen more mental health crisis than usual in the lives of our students. It is difficult to find ways to help these students. It […]
How to Spot a Learning Disorder in the Classroom
Often students are not performing in their classroom in ways that their teachers believe they are capable of. They seem to have the potential but cannot find ways to complete their work. Usually when they are struggling with a learning problem, they will cover it with number of their own smoke screens so no one will […]
Who Inspires You?
I recently saw a news report that William Shatner, who played Capt. James T Kirk in the original Star Trek TV series that piloted in 1966 was planning to go into outer space. He is 90 years old and will be the oldest person ever to do this. I was inspired by him. He is not letting his […]
Can Peek-A-Boo Change the World?
I rarely post a TED Talk but in this case, I want to make an exception. Molly Wright is seven years old and recently delivered a TED Talk which was simple but very profound. She illustrated in a short talk the importance of early childhood relationships and how the brains of children are affected by […]
When Kids Refuse to Go to School
Lakeside has a history of dealing with students who have faced many life difficulties. Often, they have had school experiences that have been negative and choose not to go to school because of their fear or for other reasons such as bullying. Formerly we labelled this as truancy and sometimes there were legal consequences to […]
We Only Think We Are in Charge
How important is it for you to oversee your life? Do you believe you actually are in charge of your life? We may think we know why we are behaving the way we are and we may think we know how to control our behaviors. I think an important awareness is that, for several reasons, […]
Helping Students through Co-Regulation
Some of the behaviors that we are experiencing out of the COVID-19 pandemic are rather disturbing and often can cause a great deal of concern by caregivers of students. The behavior can be unpredictable and very dysregulated. Some of the students that seemed balanced before the pandemic have developed a great deal of fear, anxiety […]
Five Ways the Pandemic Affected Students’ Lifestyles
We have all been aware of the research that many of the students who are returning to school have had some significant deficits as a result of the pandemic. Those of us who deal with challenging students are seeing some of their issues spiraling in different ways and acknowledge that there have been changes in […]
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