TEACHER VOICE: Helping a community near Ferguson, Missouri, heal after Michael Brown’s death [thehechingerreport.org]
By Lanesha McPherson, The Hechinger Report, January 27, 2020. Educators today hear a lot about attending to students’ social-emotional needs and implementing “trauma-informed” practices. For some, I’m sure this sounds like jargon, but that’s not the case in the University City school district in Missouri, where I teach. Here, we have embraced the goal of “humanizing” school and returning joy to our classrooms. Our district is located just six miles from Ferguson, where Michael Brown was...