It's really sad for me -- no one bid on me at the Lady Lucy Laugh Giraffe Auction....I want to go home with you. See my picture below. You have til Aug. 5th at noon. https://lnkd.in/e-yktvP

For all you Bostonites and those nearby, come to Peabody Barnes and Nobles on Friday, Aug. 31 at 11:00 (Northshore Mall) for reading and jokes by Lady Lucy and her author. (Book available in Spanish too) Fun for all. Laugh2Learn. Participating kids get a blue feather and Lady Lucy Hand Stamp (only available to those who read with author.) Books purchased can be signed and personalized. For more detais, listen to Ron Van Dam show tomorrow.too. https://ronvandam.podbean.com See you there. P.S.I will be dressed as a giraffe and as Lady Lucy -- two costumes!!! …see more

Delighted to be named to participate in the Writers Council as part of the National Writing Project. Important effort to increase child literacy and share the joys of reading and writing.

Don’t kill Southern Vermont College before it’s time Kuebler Ross is when dead. Picture illness. Doctor doesn’t call funeral home. Fight, explore, examine, ask ?. Folks gave up. I haven’t and other see value in trying. I won’t let burial happen without knowing real reasons and trying solutions. #saveSVC #highered #beboldforchange …see more

Before the holiday's are here, consider giving books. They matter and can ease family get-togethers. For real. See: https://lnkd.in/eTeKVvr. …see more

Had a wonderful participatory session at PRSA meeting on how do get a leader to trust their PR team. Chris Messina-Boyer and I were quite the team and we shared concrete strategies and ideas. Audience joined in. We all learned. My thanks to all. We need to do it again at another event!!! Could be done in reverse -- as a program for new leaders and how they can trust their PR team. Always good when the participants participate. …see more

So, I was responding to a blog, themommiesreviews.com , about the value of puzzles for children. They can be shared activities; they are fun and they can enable success -- with or without help. I made a puzzle of one of my children's book covers (see image) and I want to encourage others to make puzzles of their favorite children's book covers; it makes the book have new and lasting meaning. And, I have been thinking of selling my books with a puzzle, something that will benefit children who have experienced trauma -- and children more generally. …see more

Here's a link to the book I wrote to help kids understand social distancing and express their own emotions. It is now in video version; podcast and ebook are coming. Feel free to forward to others -- kids of all ages across the nation and the globe. I hope it helps. Navigating emotions is not easy for any of us in this difficult time. https://lnkd.in/e7qXT24 …see more

This article is precisely why colleges that are reopening (in whatever form) need to become trauma responsive. This is the subject of Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door, due out from Columbia Teachers College Press June 19, 2020. And it has strategies for how to help students. Pre-order at Amazon or https://lnkd.in/eCgEc8J https://lnkd.in/eCAFxND …see more

This piece is designed to help schools and college think strategically and systematically about quality safe reopening in Fall 2020. It may help businesses as well. It is not simple. Thoughts and comments welcomed as always (non-snarky please). Be safe and stay well. …see more

I listen to the news. I read the newspapers. I view social media. I cannot believe that I have a book emerging on June 19, 2020 on trauma and its impact on students of all ages and stages. Trauma abounds -- it pre-dated the pandemic and since then has escalated. The book launch is virtual. Followers and connections: please join me. There is a panel discussion on the book's import and applicability. There are some giveaways. It is, sadly, a book for our time and its real time strategies can help teachers, healthcare professionals, counselors, social workers, community organizations and employers. Hope to "see" you there. We need help dealing with trauma and its symptoms -- which are abundant. Details below. Save the date: June 22 at 5:00 pm EST.... …see more

Time to order Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door as an ebook. Get it from TC Press at a discount before Zoom book launch June 22 at 5:00 pm est. https://lnkd.in/dXbun2J . Amazon doesn’t have ebook (yet?). Then you can ask questions of the panel and me. Zoom details at https://lnkd.in/eaWQeJ6 . Sadly, this is a book for our time. Contains micro and macro trauma responsive strategies that can be deployed in schools, workplaces and organizations as well as in social work and community settings. Book is readable with illustrations too! Ebook time; discount time. Pre-launch time (sounds like pre-lunch time!). See you there. Participate. Join in. Voices wanted and needed and welcomed. …see more

Want to learn how to create trauma responsive institutions? Schools, businesses and organizations. Consider attending this Zoom three hour course I am doing at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work (you don't need to be a social worker!). It is July 31 from 9:30 -- 12:30 and it is affordable and comes with a book discount for Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door. Easy to enroll. Affordable. Course is interactive with concrete suggestions and takeaways. Ties into new book too -- so there is follow-up reading. Hope to "see" you there. https://lnkd.in/en3kMmM …see more

Please share with educators. Thoughts welcome as always. And: ask the right questions..... for sure.

Keep an eye out educators, parents and employers: in addition to my new book, Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door @tcpress, I am releasing several added products to animate application of principles of trauma responsiveness: word play book; feeling alphabet (w/ Dr. Ed Wang); and trauma responsive toolboxes w/ instructions on construction and use. We need all these items now — as in now! Watch for them. https://lnkd.in/eaWQeJ6 …see more

Many of us have been rightly concerned about what the impact of the Covid outbreak on the Marlins says about and means about professional sports continuing or starting sports at all levels, schools reopening, businesses reopening. At first, I was ready to drawn all sorts of conclusions and inferences. I wasn’t holding back. But... But, I think we need to wait. We need to find out the facts. We need to understand the outbreak. Was it a player or two (or more) who went rogue in Atlanta without permission and/or protection? Where did they go? Was it transmitted on the plane through personnel on board or in the aircraft filters somehow? Was it at any of the hotels with breaks in protocol for hotel workers? Was it families of players or hotel or flight workers? I say “hit the pause bottom“ on conclusions and extrapolations until we know more. Yes, that assumes truth will rise to the surface. Then we can decide what this all means for schools, sports and business. Waiting is wiser .... it just is. Hard yes. But wise. …see more

A piece about how to make fundamental educational change and why it is so hard. It is even harder than addressing the Pandemic because we have shared values for COVID solutions and NOT for education. Comments (non-snarky) welcomed and needed. …see more

Learn about new fun ways to celebrate Halloween safely. 10 tips for kids and families and teachers. Keys: Be creative and enjoy (all safely).

We are all struggling (OK, most of us) with stress and anxiety and even trauma. That is true for both adults and children. That is why I created Trauma Toolboxes. And, I wrote a guide so that others can create and use them too. Try it and share what you think. They work, adapted of course, for children and adults alike; they can be tailored to meet needs, differing demographics, different contexts, different community norms. Share the link too. https://lnkd.in/eTsvm8C …see more

Start now about new traditions beyond Halloween -- new traditions for Thanksgiving and Xmas/Channukah/Kwanzaa. It is not too early to start planning. And some may be so good, they replace old traditions. Read on.