As we reopen parts of our society, we are recognizing more and more that many individuals are struggling to adapt to this new normal COVID-19 world. I think most of us in the education profession felt we would have overcome this pandemic by now. However, we as a society are still working through some significant […]
More About the Amazing Amygdala
The more I learn about the brain, the more in awe I am: the way it is structured, the way it develops, what influences it, what can hurt it, and how it can heal. In one of the earliest conferences I attended where Bruce Perry was the keynote, he shared that the brain is the […]
Lakeside’s First Week of School
This summer has been full of challenges as we have had to manage the impact of COVID-19. There has been planning, then planning again as we attempt to meet all the health and safety requirements, establish a school profile that works for our students and staff and keep everyone as safe as we possibly can. […]
Helping Reluctant Virtual Learners
Student engagement is always a difficult task for many schools and teachers even when students are present in the classroom. It is easy for students to be detracted, lose concentration or even create some chaos with certain behaviors to break up the boredom. However, we have introduced virtual learning to the complexity of student engagement. […]
The Conundrum of How to Use the ACEs Research
I am assuming readers of this blog are familiar with the ACEs research that has been so widely distributed in recent years as people realize the powerful implications of its results. Research unequivocally proves that early childhood adversities can have a profoundly negative impact on someone’s life as an adult. The research evokes several very […]
What to Look For in Schools Reopening
Although I have posted on the topic of how parents can assess school readiness for students in this pandemic, I feel it is important to reemphasize the importance for parents to guarantee their children’s safety by having a full understanding of the policies and protocols of their respective schools. One of Lakeside’s partners in trauma […]
Why Your Student May not be Engaging into Distance Learning
In many parts of our country our educational processes are becoming more and more virtual. Last March many of our schools (including Lakeside’s) had to recreate our education plan and house it totally on a distance learning platform. It was intensely stressful for staff and although some of our students did well, others struggled for […]
Fear Management in these Challenging Times, Part 2
This is part 2 of the previous blog, addressing fear during these these days of Covid. Here is the link to part 1 of this topic. Again, for those with a trauma history, there is the need to navigate these highly stressful times and address the differences among the remaining concepts of real fear, panicking […]
Mask-Induced Anxiety
As a society we all are still working through the continued implications of COVID-19. Our access to group gatherings, our new normal school environments, our church limitations, our vacation limitations, our inability to travel normally and a level of isolation still have us in a living space of continued hypervigilance. One of the preoccupations is […]
The Case for Rapid COVID-19 Antibody Testing for Schools
We all are familiar with the benefits of wearing masks to stop the transfer of COVID-19. We have also heard about the importance of testing and the controversy of its efficacy and whether it has helped us manage the impact of COVID-19. As a society and national government, we have spent over a trillion dollars […]
