Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Resources

The novel coronavirus is disrupting the way we live, work and experience school. To halt the spread of infection, to be physically safe, we must distance ourselves from many of the people in our lives. But to be emotionally safe, we need to maintain connections to our family, friends, teachers and peers. In other words, to the people we trust. The following is a curated list of resources for parents and caregivers, teachers, educators and leaders—for any adult who has a trusting, supportive relationship with a child—and for children and young people themselves.

Resources from Turnaround for Children

Stress and the Brain

Turnaround for Children offers free access to Stress and the Brain, a resource for educators selected to complement The 180 Podcast episode Coronavirus: Keeping Our Children And Ourselves Safe, With Pamela Cantor, M.D.

Resources For The Three Rs

RELATIONSHIPS:

• Banking Time Virtually 
• Strategies for Building Relationships (In Person)

ROUTINES:

• Household and Remote School Routines and Procedures Checklist
• Routines Planner (Virtual)
• Routines Planner (In Person)

RESILIENCE:

• Emotional Response Strategies List (Virtual)
• Emotional Response Strategies List (In person)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCE:

• The New Three Rs: Helping Children Thrive During The Pandemic and Beyond

Well-Being Index

Science demonstrates what the best educators have always known: All students have unique strengths and needs that vary over time and are expressed differently. When schools recognize and personalize experiences for individual students and remove barriers to learning, they create the conditions that support thriving. But, if a student’s experience and how they feel and function is variable, how can educators capture this in order to support them in a timely, personalized way?

To help educators assess student well-being directly, quickly, and frequently, both in-person and virtually, Turnaround for Children has developed a free new tool: The Well-Being Index. This tool can minimize making assumptions about students and instead support students to understand and look after their own well-being.

Responding to Crisis Within A Tiered Supports System

To help schools address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Turnaround for Children created a new free Action Pack to guide staff, schools and school systems in Responding to Crisis Within a Tiered Supports System. The crisis component of a tiered support system allows for students who are experiencing disruptions in their health, mood, behavior, and/or skill development to receive immediate support.

Turnaround for Children Toolbox

Today, the well-being, learning, and development of a generation of young people must be our foremost priority. This is especially true as we reckon with the large numbers of young people who have experienced grief and loss, exposure to racialized violence, and disruption of important connections to school, teachers, and in-person instruction during COVID-19.

Educators and families are concerned about recovery, but also see an opportunity to reimagine and build a better and more just education system. The Turnaround for Children Toolbox is an online hub for science-grounded ideas and resources that empower educators to embed an equitable whole-child purpose into our education system. Through this approach, educators can prioritize relationships as the active ingredient in learning; meet students’ needs in authentically-personalized ways; tap into students’ strengths, interests, and talents; and facilitate academic progress.

7 Tips for Parents and Caregivers: Reassuring Children During the Coronavirus Outbreak

The most powerful tool that we as adults have to manage stress and to help our young people manage stress is the human relationship. Because relationships that are strong and trustful release the hormone oxytocin and oxytocin can restore a child’s sense of safety.

Back to Basics Blog Series

In the Back to Basics blog series, Sheila Ohlsson Walker, Ph.D. illuminates how and why a handful of synergistic, simple, and scientifically grounded lifestyle choices offer protection from the novel coronavirus and fortify mental and physical health for life.

• The Recipe for Reducing Stress and Boosting Health
• Mother Nature’s Magic Pill
• Why Sleep is the Clean-Up Crew for Your Brain
• Use Your Fork Wisely to Clean up Your MMES
• Why Meditation is a Medically Proven Vaccine For Chronic Stress
• Setting Gratitude As Your Magnetic North
• The Neurobiology of Service — How 1+1 Can Equal 3
• Quality Time – How Connection Is The New Vitamin C
• Why Staying Close to People Who Feel Like Sunlight is as Important as Food and Water
• Visualize Success – Start with Your Now to Create Your Future

The Upward Spiral

• Upward Spiral graphic

Webinars and Events

• Pamela Cantor, M.D. Featured in Instruction Partners Rethinking Intervention Series
• Pamela Cantor, M.D. Presents at NASBE Webinar
• Pamela Cantor, M.D. Presents on Campaign for Grade Level Reading Webinar
• Pamela Cantor, M.D. Presents On Newsela Webinar About COVID-19
• Pamela Cantor, M.D. Speaks On COVID-19 Town Hall Hosted by AFT, National PTA and Carnegie Corporation
• Pamela Cantor, M.D. Presents at Whiteboard Advisors Webinar on COVID-19
• Turnaround for Children Joins Learning Forward Webinar On Supporting Students in Stressful Times
• Pamela Cantor, M.D. Speaks to Sree Sreenivasan About Staying Positive During the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Turnaround Joins Live Q&A Chat For Educators Presented by CASEL
• Pamela Cantor, M.D. Joins Success Coach Webinar

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