The impact of COVID on families has been traumatic in many ways. At the height of the pandemic, schools switched to remote learning for months on end, and parents had to juggle helping their kids with schoolwork and the monotony of having to stay home, all the while having to balance their own workload for […]
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Our posters also encourage schools on the other side of the globe! In 2015 there was a shooting at a café in Paris. I asked our French teacher at Pomona High School where I was a school counselor and in charge of our B.I.O.N.I.C. Team at the time, how to write out the words in […]
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Why do we encourage poster outreaches as a part of our B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams to other schools/communities that experience tragedy? Sandy Austin got the idea when she was one of the most involved school counselors with the aftermath of the tragedy at Columbine High School. Seventeen years earlier, she had student taught at Columbine under one […]
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With schools starting back up this semester and COVID numbers surpassing any before, schools have been met with a new struggle during this continuing pandemic. School staff members are getting COVID at alarming rates, but there are not enough substitute teachers or other staff to cover for their sick colleagues. And then strange weather phenomena […]
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