Information Overload

Trust DVUSD for a slew of school resources By Dr. Curtis Finch silient children and shares the session with resources will be invaluable to parents and Deer Valley Unified School District Superintendent social worker Michael Klinker to talk about community members who will work with

Living in a virtual world can send you the important topic of student trauma and children during COVID-19. into information overload. What’s learning. Titiana Jordan uses her webinar Other district webpages also have true, what’s not? The Deer Valley to talk about the hot topic of how to monimaterial on how to talk to your children Unified School District will continue to tor screen time in this virtual environment. about COVID-19, tips for supporting work hard to clear up any confusion on the All of these resources are free to the public your student during learning, supportlatest information for school-aged students, and can be viewed at any time. ing children with disabilities in a virparents and community members. The second-most-valuable website link tual format, and a large collection of 47

The district’s website is full of resources for parents is also found under the Social other family resource connections with on parenting in a pandemic, future onEmotional Learning (SEL) tab and is lawebsites and informational options that campus safety protocols, food and nutribeled “SEL Activities for Families.” The are printable to gather your own collection information, and a treasure trove of collection of resources for families comes tion of material helpful for your family. information on the details surrounding from the “Wide Open School” project, The social-emotional needs are just as learning. and the work on emotional well-being of important as academics. Get informed

In a COVID-19 learning environment, students is broken into two parts: sixth to today from a resource you can trust: Deer the district has to be nimble and quick to 12th graders and b) prekindergarten to fifth Valley Unified School District. respond to any programming changes grade. The same district webpage also adds from the state Legislature, government ofmany professional resources, such as All ficials, Gov. Doug Ducey, Maricopa County Things E.Q.; Calm; Common Sense MeDr. Curtis Finch is the DVUSD Health Department, and/or the Centers for dia; Hoonuit; trauma-informed teaching; superintendent and can be Disease Control and Prevention. Two main district page links are very CASEL; Edutopia; Getting Smart; PBS; time-management apps; CDC; and Stop, reached at superintendent@dvusd.org. helpful for parents and community memBreathe and Think Kids. The collection of bers during this unique time in our nation’s history. The district has invested financial resources into five very valuable speakers that can be viewed on the “Parent Webinars” link at the dvusd.org website.

Ester Wojcicky is an international speaker and author of two books: “Moonshots in Education” and “Raising Successful People.” The ideas behind this webinar are the challenges of remote learning and strategies to encourage creativity and independent learning.

School Counselor Phyliss Fagell authored “Middle School Matters” and talks about parenting under the pressure of the pandemic. Maria Dismondy, author of “Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun” and 10 other children’s books, talks about raising re