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Resources for Charter School Principals & Educators during COVID-19

Lynn Norman-Teck
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The FCSA team continually gathers information, resources, and guidance issued by various organizations — including the US DOE, CDC, Florida Dept of Education, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the World Health Organization, and FCSA Marketplace partners — and posts it here to keep our member school leaders and educators informed. In these stressful times,…
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Mindfulness: Helping students become ‘ready to learn’ and teachers ‘ready to teach’

Lynn Norman-Teck
Research & Publications
InnerExplorer, mindfulness
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When stressed, students physiologically cannot absorb new ideas or lessons because the prefrontal cortex is ‘off line’. Whether kids are dealing with poverty, a difficult home life or anxiety about testing and other school pressures, stress is stress and it has a debilitating effect on a student’s ability to learn. This toxic level of stress…
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Lynn Norman-Teck
Research & Publications
InnerExplorer, mindfulness
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When stressed, students physiologically cannot absorb new ideas or lessons because the prefrontal cortex is ‘off line’. Whether kids are dealing with poverty, a difficult home life or anxiety about testing and other school pressures, stress is stress and it has a debilitating effect on a student’s ability to learn.  This toxic level of stress…
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It’s not the stress that matters, it’s how we deal with it.

Lynn Norman-Teck
Research & Publications
discipline, inner explorer, InnerExplorer, meditation, mindfulness, student stress, teacher stress
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Innovative mindfulness program helps students, teachers combat stress Back to school can be a trying time for teachers and students. Distractions are high as teachers work to engage struggling students in new and different ways. The need to manage teacher and student stress and help students bring their focus to learning makes the start of…
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Mindfulness program helps inner city school raise student achievement, lower teacher stress

Lynn Norman-Teck
Charter Schools in the News
inner explorer, mater academy international, mindfulness
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Miami-Dade, FL — In April 2018, U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) visited Mater Academy International, an inner-city charter school in Miami-Dade County that has successfully implemented a Mindfulness-Based Programs specifically designed for educators and students of all ages. Congressman Ryan was in Miami to raise awareness about violence and how to develop safe schools and…
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