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Using Language to Shape our Future and Open our Minds; From Protection to Connection
Using Language to Shape our Future and Open our Minds; From Protection to Connection

I believe my world is connected to your world, and together we can co-create the world we wish to see by acknowledging our lives, feelings and consciously deciding to put our energy on what we want instead of ruminating in what we don’t want and past issues. Re-framing situations is so powerful.

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Changing what we do, ACES, Healthy Relationships, Thoughts & Reflections, Story Telling, WellbeingJessie GrahamLanguage, Shaping the futureComment
Breaking the Cycle At Home, At School, At Work and in the Community - An opportunity for Positive Change
Breaking the Cycle At Home, At School, At Work and in the Community - An opportunity for Positive Change

Regardless of where people have worked, they bring their lived experiences and their relationship patterns to their roles and positions. Those patterns are either subconscious or somewhat conscious as they may or may not be self aware. When we surround ourselves with people who are “leading us” or “modeling for us” or “directing us” we want those relationships to be healthy.

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Education, ACES, Changing what we do, Thoughts & Reflections, Wellbeing, Healthy RelationshipsJessie GrahamBreak the Cycle, Trauma Informed, Healthy Relationships, Education, Special Education, Family, Family Systems, Educational LeadershipComment
Considering Family, Environmental, Cultural and Economic Factors, an opportunity to exclude children from Special Education and Address ACES and become more Trauma Informed.
Considering Family, Environmental, Cultural and Economic Factors, an opportunity to exclude children from Special Education and Address ACES and become more Trauma Informed.

Unfortunately, by putting the problem on the students we are causing more trauma. We are making “something wrong with them” and trying to fix it. But I don’t think it is working. Because the families and the teachers are not addressing the root cause and children are stressed, suicide rates are up, and teachers are leaving the profession.

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ACES, Thoughts & ReflectionsJessie GrahamACES, Toxic Stress, Special Eduation, Change, CO-CREATE CHANGE, Cultural, Family, Environmental, EconomicComment
Safety First - Toxic Stress in Education
Safety First - Toxic Stress in Education

Why are our educational agencies/leaders allowed to make decisions that are unsafe?  Is this the result of chronic toxic stress?  Is our educational system not considering safety when I, a human being, says they don't feel safe?  Are they considering the stressful impact of teachers and students being without power all day and in fear of fires near by?

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Thoughts & ReflectionsJessie GrahamToxic Stress, Education, BoundariesComment