Edutopia: Unspeakable Tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School

URL: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/responding-tragedy-sandy-hook-elementary-david-markus?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_content=blog&utm_campaign=sandyhook

Provides links to various media including videos from NBC news, Common Sense Media and articles in the New York Times Learning Network about how to talk to your kids about news how to help kids cope with trauma.

• Empathy In the Classroom: Why Should I Care?
• The Long Game: 4 Essentials for a Successful Mindfulness Program
• Social Emotional Learning: A Schoolwide Approach
  Strategies like mindfulness, emotional regulation, and supportive small groups help Symonds meet the academic and social needs of their students.

• Additional Edutopia Resources
  • Helping Students Who Experienced Trauma
  • There’s no such thing as a bad kid in these six Spokane, WA, trauma-informed elementary schools
  • “It’s Not What’s Wrong with the Children, It’s What’s Happened to Them”