Making Faces and Building Social and Emotional Skills

Making Faces and Building Social and Emotional Skills

Managing our emotions is hard, whether you are four, or six, or forty six! Teaching children to effectively manage their feelings and emotions is such an important, ongoing task for both teachers and parents—there is no one-size-fits-all lesson for helping children to...
Friend Tree: Draw Strength from Your Community

Friend Tree: Draw Strength from Your Community

At Frank L. Madla Early College High School, our school culture includes a strong community of support. When alumni reflect on their time with us, they often remark that they leave us—and move onward to complete their college journey—with a community that they...
Digital Parenting Tips for Keeping Kids Safe

Digital Parenting Tips for Keeping Kids Safe

We are proud to publish this guest post about keeping kids safe in an online world by Mandy Majors & Kim Elerick, co-hosts of the nextTalk podcast. When kids are little, we can fall into the trap of thinking “parenting the digital world” only pertains to teens...
Family Self-Care Plan

Family Self-Care Plan

March is National Social Work Month, a time to reflect on the profession of social work and thank the estimated 700,000 professional social workers in the United States. The field of social work is amazing because we are taught how to apply our knowledge, skills, and...