A tired teenager and a teenager with ADHD can look nearly identical from the front of a classroom. Inattention. Irritability. Forgetfulness. Falling behind on work they clearly understand. Every August schools see a wave of it — and a meaningful share is a sleep schedule that drifted two or three h Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

The hardest twenty minutes of a family's day happen before 8am. Shoes that can't be found. A stomachache that only appears on school days. A child who was fine at bedtime and is on the floor by breakfast. The parent arrives at work already depleted, and the student arrives at school already dysregu Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

Ninth grade is the year most likely to knock a student off track — and often the year districts watch the least. The research here is unusually consistent: how a student performs in 9th grade predicts on-time graduation better than their test scores or their 8th grade grades do. One semester of sli Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

A tired teenager and a teenager with ADHD can look nearly identical from the front of a classroom. Inattention. Irritability. Forgetfulness. Falling behind on work they clearly understand. Every August schools see a wave of it — and a meaningful share is a sleep schedule that drifted two or three h Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

The hardest twenty minutes of a family's day happen before 8am. Shoes that can't be found. A stomachache that only appears on school days. A child who was fine at bedtime and is on the floor by breakfast. The parent arrives at work already depleted, and the student arrives at school already dysregu Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

Ninth grade is the year most likely to knock a student off track — and often the year districts watch the least. The research here is unusually consistent: how a student performs in 9th grade predicts on-time graduation better than their test scores or their 8th grade grades do. One semester of sli Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts. Free BBC classroom resources you can use tomorrow — ad-free videos, leveled reading articles, Bluey SEL lessons, a Walking with Dinosaurs field trip, and a daily news bite for media literacy. Kimmie Fink of the BBC Learning Hub shows teachers where to start. All of it free. The post Free BBC Resources for Your Classroom: Dinosaurs, Bluey, Planet Earth

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Subscribe to the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk anywhere you listen to podcasts. The moment you put a grade on something, it stops being formative. Assessment author Starr Sackstein explains what formative assessment really means and gives you classroom-ready strategies for the start, middle, and end of any lesson. The post Assessment and Feedback That Move Learning Forward appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

The worst time to write a crisis plan is during a crisis. Every Georgia district has some version of one. The real question is whether it holds up at 2:15 on a Tuesday, when a counselor is out, the student in front of you has just disclosed something serious, and three people are waiting on a decis Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

Sixth grade is one of the biggest jumps a child ever makes. One teacher becomes seven. One classroom becomes a schedule, a locker, and a hallway full of strangers. Friend groups reshuffle from scratch. And all of it lands exactly when early adolescence is rewiring how they read themselves and every Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →

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The first 30 days set the tone for the whole school year. For a lot of students, going back isn't excitement — it's a stomachache on the bus, tears at drop-off, or a teenager who suddenly can't sleep. Some of that is normal adjustment. Some of it is the early signal of something that gets much loud Generated from MentalSpace School: Georgia K-12 Mental Health and Compliance Guide #MentalSpaceSchool #SchoolMentalHealth #K12Wellness #PodcastListen on mentalspaceschool.com →