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Gloria Halley
Social Emotional Learning Advisor
Butte County Office of Education
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NorCal 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”
Regional News

LGBTQ+ Students in Conservative Crosshairs
Several California schools from Riverside to Mt. Shasta now require that school staff inform parents if students ask to use a different name or pronoun,

Humboldt County Office of Education Plans Creative Education Symposium: Connecting the Arts to Social Emotional Learning
The Creative Education Symposium is scheduled for March 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humboldt County Office of Education’s Sequoia Conference Center

Sonora High School Awarded $200,000 Grant For Student Mental Health
The Sonora Union High School District has been awarded a School Health Demonstration Project Grant from the California Department of Education, which will provide up
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