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Inland Empire

Regional Coordinator

Darin Jones

MTSS Instructional Coach / TSA for Instructional Support
Corona Norco Unified School District
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Ambra Dodds-Main

Principal, Sunnymead Elementary
Moreno Valley Unified School District
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Inland Empire Regional Update


The nation’s schools were already struggling to meet students’ mental health needs when the pandemic hit. How can schools rise to meet students’ ballooning needs in that area as a massive school reopening gets underway?

To be sure, it will be difficult to balance mental health support with an equally massive academic recovery. But child development experts say it’s a balance schools must attempt to strike if they want students to regain their academic footing after an unprecedented year of disruptions, stress, and trauma.

An infusion of federal COVID-19 relief money will help, but how those funds are used will be pivotal. And experts say that schools cannot just focus on the students they know are in crisis; they must bolster supports for all students as well as staff members.

EducationWeek Article “Here’s What Schools Can Do”

 

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