Tag: COVID19

Oh! We’re Little Gardeners

Written by Mary William. Posted in Books, Children, Civic Engagement, COVID and Mental Health, Gardening, General, Multilingual.

Buy on Amazon A dual-language picture book addresses food insecurity and hands-on solutions for children. Magda and Anna teach young children about gardening and eating healthy, and they all work together to plant healthy foods and read books about healthy eating. The children feel proud eating the food that they’ve grown themselves. But when the pandemic, COVID-19, set in, Magda and Anna noticed that with families staying at home and children not in school, many were without healthy food. They delivered care boxes with food and books but soon realized that this would not be enough to sustain...

5 Steps to build community during COVID

Written by Debra Harkins. Posted in Civic Engagement, COVID and Teaching, General.

5 Steps to build community in the classroom during COVID

Even in the best of times, service-learning can pose numerous challenges. Learn 5 steps to build community during COVID. When COVID and an attempted governmental coup is added to the mix, educators need to really step up their game. Some of the ways we found to continue learning during this crisis was focusing first on community building, anchoring the partnership, and providing mentors as additional support. We explore each of these foundational steps in this paper providing concrete steps and examples to build a supportive community that can learn in the midst of trauma. Grenier, L., Robinson,...

Should you worry about your children and schooling during the COVID19 pandemic?

Written by Debra Harkins. Posted in Children, COVID and Mental Health, General.

I’ve been a child developmental psychologist for over 20+ years. Here’s my opinion on children and school. Children will have a similar experience in school or out as COVID runs its course. School is NOT in any way, shape, or form the same right now whether you’re “in the classroom” or not. I know parents want their kids back to school but “school” is not school right now and it just can’t be. Children will be fine! Enjoy the time you have with them as much as possible. What they most need is parents who are alive, parents who are not mourning the loss of their parents and siblings’ deaths,...

How COVID mirrors the torus of change

Written by Debra Harkins. Posted in COVID and Mental Health, General.

The Metaphysics of A Global World in Transition Kelly Nezat and Debra A. Harkins Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” — Pema Chodron Our world is clearly in crisis, a state of imbalance, dis-ease, and uncertainty....

Steps to help youth during COVID

Written by Debra Harkins. Posted in Children, Civic Engagement, COVID and Mental Health, Featured Blog, General, Mental health.

Charting a Course to Support Youth Mental Health during COVID19 The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin’ on -Bob Dylan “Tangled up in blue” Perhaps Dylan’s words capture the temptation of many in a time of crisis to put their head down and push forward as if nothing has changed…as if we are not changing with every new revelation of how scary our world is becoming. Parents, teachers, and administrators find ourselves faced with both familiarity and uncertainty in the face of a worldwide pandemic. While all of us are being impacted in some way, shape or form,...

Tag: COVID19

Oh! We’re Little Gardeners

5 Steps to build community during COVID

Should you worry about your children and schooling during the COVID19 pandemic?

How COVID mirrors the torus of change

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