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School's educational responsibility doesn't include just the staples like history, math and science. School is a place where children make sense of current events in a safe space as well. NPR has a new comic made just for kids to help them understand Coronavirus.

Educators please be intentional sharing this information with your students. They should know that some things are in their control when it comes to staying healthy and how to show compassion to others who might be sick.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/28/809580453/just-for-kids-a-comic-exploring-the-new-coronavirus

Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus You may have heard the word "coronavirus" online or on TV. You probably have a lot of questions. Check out our comic to get some answers — and print out a zine version at home.

Schools are increasingly incorporating classes similar to what used to be called "home-ec" in their curriculum. As parents are working more or engaging with the "gig" economy to make ends meet, students are looking more to other outlets to help them learn crucial "adulting" skills like financial literacy, cooking and doing taxes.

"Adulting School was founded in 2016 in Portland, Maine, by therapist Rachel Weinstein, who often treated young adults who felt overwhelmed and unprepared for some of life’s everyday challenges."

Check out this article to learn more bout this growing trend.

http://ow.ly/q7hN50yqTHG

The American Planning Association is awarding Nature-Based and Green Infrastructure Solutions Grants for projects to be completed in 2020. City governments and nonprofits are welcome to submit their applications by February 28, 2020 for consideration.

Mother nature has a way of providing solutions to many of today's problems if we work with her.

planning.org/consultants/rfp/9192471/

“The idea was to take a holistic approach to resilience,” Schmalbach says. “So, looking not only at infrastructure but people and awareness and culture and workforce development and just thinking how multiple sectors come together to create and demonstrate what a resilient community looks like.”

Art as a mechanism for resilient communities?!

We are loving this approach seen in New Orleans😍

http://ow.ly/MJfU50xDBEQ