Connecting With The Community Inside And Out Of The Classroom with Dr. Chris Thurber

RC021 Connecting With The Community Inside And Out Of The Classroom with Dr. Chris Thurber

Dr. Chris Thurber, Associate Director of Counselling & Psychological Services at Phillips Exeter Academy. Dr. Chris joins us this week to discuss how schools are operating and what their experience has been in a post-covid era.

"One thing that can help schools recover would be the intentional daily weaving in of Social-emotional curricula to endow kids with skills they need..." - Dr. Chris Thurber

"It's really important that in the well-intentioned enthusiastic effort to get kids caught up academically that we not eclipse some of the non-structured free time that kids have during the school day to interact with one another..." - Dr. Chris Thurber

This week on the Roll Call Podcast:

• Dr. Chris' background
• Students social and emotional wellbeing coming back to school
• Are students behind academically?
• Social-emotional learning
• Enlisting the help of parents
• Lessons from online learning
• Are schools seeing a higher need for student care?
• Online access to mental health professionals
• Getting the school back on track

Resources Mentioned:

• Phillips Exeter Academy
• Dr. Chris' Book: The Unlikely Art of Parental Pressure

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