Language and Literacy Skills Over Summer Break
7 Ways Parents Can Boost Language and Literacy Skills Over the Summer Summer break offers a unique opportunity for parents to engage with their children and support their language and literacy development outside the classroom. Keeping young minds active and learning during the summer months can prevent the “summer slide,” where some students lose reading […]
A Summer Guide for Parents to Encourage Learning
A Summer Guide for Parents: Encourage Reading, Communication, and Writing this Summer. Encouraging Communication, Reading, and Writing: A Summer Guide for Parents As the summer rays beckon families to a break full of trips and relaxation, maintaining and enhancing children’s communication, reading, and writing skills becomes a key challenge for parents. Summer provides a plethora […]
Summer Safety Tips
House to Senate Bill 117. Dramatic Increases in Teachers License Fees? A bill passed in the marathon session of the Ohio House and Senate that could result in teachers paying a lot more for their licenses. It costs about $200 to renew a teaching license in Ohio, and teachers have to renew it every […]
PT Burnout is Real – Here’s How to Avoid It
Five common reasons for burnout and how to combat them. Climbing caseloads, tedious documentation, unpaid overtime—it’s no wonder physical therapists feel burned out. You might not know it based on turnover rates alone—10.7% for hospital-based physical therapists and 13.88% for PTs in home health. The reality is many therapists simply expect exhaustion, perhaps explaining why […]
What Educators Need to Know About Generation Alpha
Some great insights from Jessica Kato, Literacy Resource Teacher. On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. The guest, Allison Russell, was talking about the emotional intelligence of young people and mentioned that she’d just […]
CMS Announces $50 Million in Grants to Deliver Critical School-Based Health Services to Children
Grants will help up to 20 states implement or expand school-based health services for children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP On January 24, 2024 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced $50 million in grants for states to connect millions more children to […]
How virtual nursing can help solve many workforce shortage woes
One of the nurse executives who helped create the world’s first virtual hospital offers a deep dive into the benefits of a hybrid approach to nursing that employs telehealth. Hospitals across the nation are facing workforce challenges, and a nurse staffing shortage poses one of the biggest threats to care delivery. More than 100,000 nurses exited the U.S. […]
Navigating the ‘big little leap’ to kindergarten
No matter how well children are prepared for kindergarten, their transition to the classroom during the first few months plays a key role in their success, a new study suggests. Researchers found that kids who made a more successful transition in the first 10-14 weeks of kindergarten scored higher than others on tests of […]
There’s a strong push for more school psychologists
A combination of pre-existing shortages and a rise in school stressors has led to a major effort to train and hire more mental health professionals for school settings. With a growing mental health crisis among young people—a trend both exacerbated and illuminated by COVID—the need for school psychologists is multiplying. School psychologists in the United […]
Cardiac Emergency Response Plan: Is Your School Prepared?
With an unwavering dedication to her profession, PSI’s Suzanne Evans, RN, BSN, LSN, NCSN consistently explores avenues to elevate her school’s readiness for unexpected emergencies. Having served as a local school nurse for 14 years and 23 years of experience as a registered nurse (RN), Suzanne found inspiration to write this article after successfully implementing […]