
The November SCENE

November Newsletter
Co Chairs on the SCENE
Briona Millidge and Alexandria Murray here. We are educators within our first ten years of experience working alongside you here in South Carolina. We understand and deal with the same types of work obstacles that you do. We know one thing, being a part of a community where like-minded educators can support one another has kept us in the career field on our hardest days. We are stronger together y'all. Each month we will be providing you with resources and topics to discuss in your schools with your SCENE Chapter. Our monthly topic this month is mental wellness.
By raising awareness about the importance of mental health and breaking the stigma surrounding it, we can empower other college students to take proactive steps in maintaining their well-being and seeking help when necessary.
Feel free to click on our links in this newsletter to learn more about mental health and strategies for your wellness. We have developed regional leads you can reach out to in your area. Please connect with us and show up to our next event near you!
If you are experiencing difficult thoughts call 988 (24/7 crisis hotline).
- Briona & Alexandria
Get Connected
Angelica, Tyler, Briona, Ciara, Alexandria
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Do You Need Praxis Support?
Save the Dates
- Tuesday, November 14th at 4:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, January 9th at 4:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, March 12th at 4:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, May 14th at 4:30 p.m.
SCENE All Call:
- Tuesday, December 12th at 4:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, February 13th at 4:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, April 9th at 4:30 p.m.
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Parent-Teacher Conferences are Here!
Start YOUR District's SCENE Community
Email kcornell@thescea.org if you are interested in starting
your own school district SCENE Community.
Mental Health in Schools
Engaging in Reflective Practice
Educators learn how reflective practice enables them to advance student learning and grow professionally.
Carol S. Dweck
Teachers' Mindsets: "Every Student Has Something to Teach Me"
Try pairing a growth mindset with reasonable goals, patience, and reflection instead. It’s time to get gritty and be a better teacher.
Carol S. Dweck
How Can You Develop a Growth Mindset About Teaching?
Research has shown that it’s never too late to develop a growth mindset about your abilities.
Todd Scholl
We Need to Have a Conversation About Self-Care
Positivity is wonderful, but being human means, we will experience pain and suffering. When we experience hard times, our friends and colleagues will often try to encourage us.
Todd Scholl
Five Ways to Manage Anxiety
Our minds crave certainty. Over many generations, natural selection has favored those who pay close attention to threats. By doing so, our ancestors were better equipped to avoid mortal mistakes. Most of us have inherited this high level of vigilance. Psychologists Paul Rozin and Edward Royzman called this "negativity bias." We pay closer attention to what is wrong than what is right. Dr. Rick Hanson puts it this way, "Your brain is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones."
Trauma Informed Pedagogy *NEA Micro-Credentials require a The SCEA membership for access.
The impact of traumatic experiences is so significant that it can hinder the brain’s normal development. This disruption causes behavioral, emotional, academic, and other developmental changes. Seemingly simple things like a facial expression, one’s proximity, or tone of voice, may trigger memories of a painful event. This can lead to aggression, isolation, perfectionism, and more. Evidence suggests that with supportive educators and a healing-centered school community, students can learn, achieve, and begin to heal.
1. Creating a Healing Centered Learning Environment
Educators identifies key elements of trauma-informed pedagogy and design a healing-centered learning environment.
2. Trauma Informed Support for Students
Educators understand and apply the physiological, psychological, and behavioral impact of trauma on students.
3. Developing a Healing-Centered Self Care Practice
Educators will develop a healing-centered self-care practice as a preventative measure for compassion fatigue and or burn out.
4. Race Based Trauma
Educators will use their knowledge of how individual and institutional racism, racial bias, discrimination, and microaggressions can cause traumatic reactions in students of color, to create a safe and brave environment that can help students cope with race-based trauma.
5. Using a Healing-Centered Approach to Support Refugee Students
Educators identify the causes and implications of refugee trauma on students. They design a healing-centered learning environment to support students who have experienced refugee trauma.
6. Poverty Based Trauma
Educators identify the causes and implications of trauma that's linked to poverty and design a healing-centered learning environment to support affected students. Educators also promote empathy and the healthy development of social emotional skills among all students.
Monthly Suggested Podcast
Crayons and Pencils
Follow the journey of a new and pre-service teacher as they tackle different topics, from our struggles with classroom management to our perspectives on current topics in education and our hilarious stories in the classroom.