Guest Blogger
Parent
Chicago, Illinois
Alana G. Baum is a Chicago Public Schools parent, a clinical psychologist and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is teaching a seminar on the psychology of hate.
This is a stressful time for many urban eighth-grade students and parents who are considering high school options, and hearing…
At Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Israel, there’s a photograph of a father with his hands covering his young…
Like many psychologists throughout the country, I’ve received countless calls from parents and teachers struggling with how to address last…
I didn’t want to go to school that day. Actually, I just didn’t want to go to math class. We had a test and I…
Before I left school yesterday, I looked at my classroom. Not to check and make sure the floor was clean, or to look for coats…
Trauma is a silent, but very prevalent problem in the classrooms of today. In fact, recent reports by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…
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