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Inspire students to set and achieve goals this year using practical social-emotional skills they can run with in their everyday lives. 

Find easy ways to engage elementary students in important SEL competencies this school year with new resources from LaGolda, a pro-social animated series and online educational program available on the Discovery Education learning platform. 

As LaGolda and her growing team of friends travel the world and overcome challenges together, students can follow along and discover how SEL skills are put into action to overcome obstacles and achieve personal goals. 

Tackle timely topics in class with three new hands-on activities that empower students to harness SEL skills and play the long game to a successful future. Each new activity pairs with a corresponding episode in the LaGolda series: 

• Plugging Into Social Awareness
  Investigate students’ social awareness through their use of technology to find parallels between healthy personal relationships and savvy digital citizenship. 

• Leading with Responsible Decision Making
  Students will explore how making good decisions benefits themselves and those around them with an important lesson focusing on inclusion. 
• Breaking Down Adversity with Social Awareness
  Help students understand prejudice and racism using the lens of social awareness and reflect on simple ways they can be more inclusive of others. 

UnitedHealthcare is committed to inspiring the healthiest generation yet by partnering with Discovery Education to make these resources available on the LaGolda SEL Resources by United Healthcare channel in Discovery Education’s K-12 learning platform. Visit the fun animated community of LaGolda and jump right into powerful SEL explorations that set students up for a lifetime of social connection and success. 

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It's grabbed a lot of headlines, but the evidence on social media and teen mental health — including that Facebook and Instagram research — is far from a smoking gun.

(Image credit: LA Johnson/NPR)

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The new and developing field of genomics involves the study of the genome, the entirety of a person’s genes. Genomic studies in medicine are showing that interaction between genes and environmental factors and lifestyle choices can have a major influence on a person’s risk of developing diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.  

Developed in partnership with Illumina, DNA Decoded provides educators with tools to help their high school students make personal connections to genomics by exploring the impact of the genome on mental health, the impact of genetic screening as a predictor of athletic performance, and the surprising results that the genome can reveal about race and its connection to medicine and human health. 

An all new educator explainer provides a step-by-step best practices for getting started with the resources. The guide breaks down the first segment of DNA Decoded resources, “Cracking the Code” to help educators determine where they should start to get their students’ feet wet in the field of genomics using a single class period or 45-minute lesson. Following an explanation of each starting point, educators are encouraged to move to the next resource in that category to extend the learning. 

This approach will help educators more easily engage students in lessons highlighting timely and relevant topics impacted by innovations in genomics, such as: 

• In Targeting Cancer, students learn how targeted therapy is changing treatment for cancer patients by using gene sequencing to look for cellular changes, chromosomal abnormalities, and gene mutations. They will explore various types of targeted therapy and help fictional doctors create personalized treatments to save lives. 
• Race and Medicine shines a light on the question of the science behind classifying humans as different ‘races.’ Students have the opportunity to role-play working as scientists to build evidence and build and argument to answer their assigned question related to race and ancestry.? This cross-disciplinary activity aligns to NGSS, as well as standards for Technological Literacy and English Language Arts. 

• Medicine of the Future gives students the opportunity to get hands on as they role-play hospital administrators, who are implementing precision medicine at their site. To plan this change, students will investigate what genome testing entails, explore a genetic database to understand the sheer scope of genes, and read an article about precision medicine. 
• In?The?Microbiome and Mental Health, a digital lesson bundle featuring student activities and a complete lesson in PowerPoint,?students will evaluate a growing body of evidence showing that the tiny microbes living in your gut may have a major influence on your brain.?Ultimately, students will create a large 2-D informational graphic on a poster board that contains pictures, diagrams, and?details?explaining?the?connection to mental health and the microbiome.? 

These flexible resources are easy to access wherever learning is taking place through DNADecoded.com or on the DNA Decoded Channel in the Discovery Education learning platform.? 

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To help students explore the exciting the many ways STEM is shaping the world around them, Discovery Education and leading corporate and community partners proudly introduce four new engaging, no-cost virtual field trips (VFTs). Learn more and register for the new virtual field trips and find all the resources here.

Discovery Education offers educators, students, and families hundreds of no-cost, on-demand VFTs that empower educators to provide all students with access to remarkable learning experiences that connect what students are learning to the outside world wherever instruction is taking place.

Power of Cooperatives Virtual Field Trip with CHS Foundation
Premiere: October 7^th at 1 PM ET

Dig into the exciting ways the agricultural cooperative (co-op) business model is connecting communities and inspiring everyday innovation with this new virtual journey. Students will trace the lifecycle of a crop from the ground up to see how collaboration and creativity are combined to nourish communities, solve problems, and improve lives. Along the way, students will meet a variety of real-world co-op professionals who reveal the STEM innovations that today’s farms are using to stay productive. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 9-12.

CHS Foundation and Discovery Education partnered to create Cooperative Minds, an educational initiative immersing high school students nationwide in the dynamic ingenuity and collaborative spirit of the cooperative business model. Empower students to sow the seeds of success with no-cost, standards-aligned resources that explore essential careers and endless possibilities in agricultural cooperatives.

Moving to Market Virtual Field Trip with Toyota
Premiere: October 12^th at 1 PM ET

Celebrate the dynamic movement of the supply chain as students follow the lifecycle of automotive parts travelling from manufacture to their final destinations all over the country. Along the way, a variety of real-world professionals will show students how their everyday passion and problem-solving help to support Toyota’s mission of providing Mobility for All. Find out how the many moving parts of the auto supply chain come together through a combination of complex machines, ingenious processes, and the commitment of a talented team. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-8.

With the goal of inspiring students to solve the transportation challenges of the future, Toyota has expanded a partnership with Discovery Education to launch Keys to Connect. The new educational initiative offers educators, students, and families no-cost, standards-aligned digital resources that empower all learners to become solution seekers focused on sustainability and inclusivity.

The Future is Now Virtual Field Trip with Edge at Hudson Yards
Premiere: November 4th at 1 PM ET

Take students on a virtual adventure into New York City’s newest and most forward-thinking neighborhood to explore new horizons in community building and a behind-the-scenes look at the amazing architecture and engineering innovations at Edge, the highest outdoor skydeck in the Western Hemisphere. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 4-12.

Reach for the Sky, a new initiative from Edge at Hudson Yards and Discovery Education, catalyzes hands-on, experiential teaching and learning by giving classrooms nationwide a virtual pass to the neighborhood of the future. Inspire students to take action while supporting underserved communities with access to engaging digital educational resources showing students how big ideas and cutting-edge technology improve lives and revolutionize communities.

Your Heart Virtual Field Trip with Abbott
Premiere: November 9^th at 1 PM ET

The human heart beats 100,000 times a day. To show how this body engine works, two students will explore the fascinating structure and function of the heart with Abbott scientists and doctors – and join U.S. Olympian Lolo Jones to learn how to keep your heart healthy! This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 5-8.

To help families learn together about how to stay healthy and physically fit, Future Well Kids – an educational initiative from Abbott, the Abbott Fund, and Discovery Education – offers families no-cost digital resources designed to help create a healthier future for kids.

Each virtual experience features accompanying educator resources and student activities that make it easy for teachers to incorporate rich media into the learning experiences they design and deliver every day.

“Virtual field trips are a fun – and easy – way to connect what I am teaching in my classroom to the real world,” said Linda Hixson, technology teacher at Shenandoah Valley Jr/Sr High School of the Shenandoah Valley School District. “With the new VFTs from Discovery Education and their partners, I always know I have something fresh to more deeply engage my students and broaden their horizons.  I’m looking forward to finding ways to build these into my classroom activities.”

Explore more Virtual Field Trips on-demand:

20th Anniversary of 9/11: A Day for Good Deeds Virtual Field Trip 
My Good Deed
Grades 5–12

Identity, Belonging, Legacy Virtual Field Trip 
Teaching with Testimony | USC Shoah Foundation
Grades 8–12

Discovery Education’s Virtual Field Trips can be found within the company’s recently enhanced K-12 learning platform on the Virtual Field Trips channel or in the Social Impact Partnerships channel.

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Explore a variety of Discovery Education resources offering evidence-based content and strategies to build empathy and collective care in any learning environment. 

While life’s adversities create obstacles that can disrupt teaching and learning, overcoming obstacles together strengthens the student-teacher relationship like nothing else. Creating a safe space in class to support mental health is a simple yet powerful way to reinforce students’ resilience, develop problem-solving skills, and cultivate collaboration. 

Discovery Education offers a regularly updated selection of instructional resources and professional learning tools supporting mental wellness for students and educators. Explore the many long-term rewards of ongoing mental wellness support in schools using standards-aligned, interdisciplinary resources designed to engage every student: 

• The Social-Emotional Learning Center 
  Find effective ways to incorporate social-emotional learning into any classroom using this one-stop digital hub, featuring curated resource collections covering professional development, SEL integration into classrooms, and student-facing digital content for all grades. 
• Ask, Listen, Learn, a program of Responsibility.org
  Empower students to set goals for themselves and avoid peer pressure by discovering the real consequences of unhealthy decisions on both physical and emotional wellness. Check out student activities that reinforce mental wellness through prevention: Cause & Effect, My Future Me, and Making Decisions. 

• Dose of Knowledge 
  Show students that mental health is a key component of overall health, review strategies to support their mental health, and explore the effects stress, anxiety, and depression can have on the brain and body. Students will learn about the role prescription medications can play in the treatment of anxiety and depression and review the risks associated with misusing prescription medications or other substances.
• Amazing Me 
  Give students a foundation of self-esteem to navigate adversity with uplifting resources addressing body confidence and bullying in and out of the classroom. The “A Plan to Stay Positive” activity motivates families to recognize each other’s positive traits and consciously celebrate these traits on a regular basis. 
• Soar with Wings 
  Show students how inner strength gives them the power to make the right choices in life. Explore the concept of responsible decision-making through the lens of grit with the “Inner Strength” digital lesson, which brings social-emotional concepts to life for elementary students. 
• Teaching with Testimony 
  Discover powerful historical insights into important mental wellness topics through one girl’s incredible story of survival, resilience, and triumph. The Willesden Project resources immerse students in an incredible true story to learn how we all possess the ability to overcome hate. 
• Ready, Set, RISE! 
  Cultivate?trauma-informed educational strategies in schools with evidence-based professional learning resources that provide tools to address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Check out the “Cultural Humility & Equity” e-Learning Module for compassionate ways to see into every students’ inner world. 

Resources to support wellness can also be found in the Discovery Education K-12 learning platform on the Wellness Channel.

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Students have returned to in-person classes in the largest U.S. school district. The city also began enforcing vaccine mandates for indoor activities and required city workers to return to the office.

(Image credit: Mark Lennihan/AP)

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Books I finished reading (or rereading) in August 2021…

• Restoration, Carol Berg (fantasy)
• The Rose and the Thorn, Michael Sullivan (fantasy)
• The Death of Dulgath, Michael Sullivan (fantasy)
• The Disappearance of Winter’s Daughter, Michael Sullivan (fantasy)
• A Time of Dread, John Gwynne (fantasy)
• A Time of Blood, John Gwynne (fantasy)

Hope you’re reading something fun too!

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