Courtney Macavinta
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420 appearances
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first heard Feb 2017
last heard Feb 2017
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And so that's where you can really make a difference as a school is what happens when you go to the office.
You know, when we see schools that do wonderful things like
the child gets to do s a mindfulness activity, you know, gets to quiet down, gets to reflect on their behavior, gets to decide when they're ready to go back.
You know, that it's just a t it's just a pause.
It's not a disciplinary process that's happening.
Things like that, you know, where they get to connect with another adult in the office that they have a Canadian connection with.
Like school secretaries can be an amazing part of the solution here.
And we've met some great ones where they have a chat, you know, and they're encouraging them or just listening to them and then they get themselves ready and they go back into class.
There is and and a lot of it is just
A big part of it is individual school.
Deciding.
We're not gonna be punitive.
You know, we're not gonna do this.
And then if you're not gonna do it, you need to replace it with something else because you're taking a tool away from teachers if you say you can't send them down to the office.
You know, they're dealing with a lot in their classrooms.
I mean, if you have, you know, 50% special ed in the class, then you have, you know, trauma, then you have, you know, all these things that are getting stockpiled at our public schools due to segregation and poverty and other things, right?
But the most empowering thing I hope that you know parents and teachers can take away from this is that
An individual adult in their own individual choices about their behavior can stop the cycle.
That's why we're fo we focus individual frontline educators.
You know, that's why we create trainings and apps and things just for them so that even if they're sitting inside.
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