NASN School Nurse Chat: Mypoia – Screening and Referral

 

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This week: NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck speaks with past NASN president and Delaware school nurse Beth Mattey and optometrist Dr. Michele Andrews about the school nurse role in vision screening, identification of myopia in students, and referral.

About the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast:

The NASN School Nurse Chat, a podcast hosted by NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, highlights timely student and school health topics of interest to school nurses and other professionals focused on student health and well-being. For more information about the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast, contact Margaret Cellucci, NASN Director of Communications at mcellucci@nasn.org.

Question and Answer with new RJN! DMV Project Director Carolyn Lowery

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This week: Carolyn Lowery gives insights during a question and answer session about her 20 years of experience in organizing, advocacy and policy change. She shares insights from her past work and her plans for the work she currently leads in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

About the NO JUSTICE NO PEACE:

The No Justice No Peace Podcast is about all things related to the ‘Education Justice Movement’, including school policing, culturally relevant curriculum, racial disparities in suspensions/expulsions, grassroots organizing, advocacy, policy change etc. The host is Racial Justice NOW! Executive Director, H.A. Jabar and features guests from around the nation and world. Racial Justice NOW! is dedicated to eliminating institutional and systemic anti-Black racism and has led numerous successful campaigns in the state of Ohio and in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia).

About Racial Justice NOW!:

RJN is a community based, grassroots org led by parents pushing back on dehumanization in education. Led by @hajabar #BlackParentsUNITE For more information check out: http://www.rjnohio.org/

SchoolHouse: Mississippi Roots of Education Justice (part 1)

 

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This Month: Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.

About the SchoolHouse: Equity in Education podcast:

SchoolHouse is a podcast created by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and hosted by Allison R. Brown, Alexis J. Smith, Jaime Koppel, and Thena Robinson Mock. SchoolHouse shares stories about how young people, their families and communities, and other advocates and activists are working in and around schools to make them healthy, safe, and equitable places for children to be. In SchoolHouse, we will learn together about the global implications of local movements for change in our schools.

About CJSF:

The Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a nationally-focused donor collaborative. CJSF provides resources in support of community-led organizations that are working to ensure positive and supportive school climates that affirm and foster the success of all students. CJSF’s community partners organize young people, parents and caregivers, educators, and other community members to advocate on behalf of students who are disproportionately impacted by the over-use of exclusionary school discipline practices, including suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in schools. They organize community members to stand up for positive, healthy, and supportive school climates that produce better academic and social outcomes for the students who enroll than school climates with a heavy police presence, zero tolerance school discipline policies, and over-reliance on exclusionary discipline methods. CJSF’s community partners educate students, parents and caregivers, school officials and teachers, police departments, and community leaders on highly beneficial alternatives to suspension, expulsion, and school-based arrests. For more information, email us at info@cjsfund.org and sign up for our newsletter at www.cjsfund.org.

SchoolHouse: Mississippi Roots of Education Justice (part 2)

 
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This Month: Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.

About the SchoolHouse: Equity in Education podcast:

SchoolHouse is a podcast created by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and hosted by Allison R. Brown, Alexis J. Smith, Jaime Koppel, and Thena Robinson Mock. SchoolHouse shares stories about how young people, their families and communities, and other advocates and activists are working in and around schools to make them healthy, safe, and equitable places for children to be. In SchoolHouse, we will learn together about the global implications of local movements for change in our schools.

About CJSF:

The Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a nationally-focused donor collaborative. CJSF provides resources in support of community-led organizations that are working to ensure positive and supportive school climates that affirm and foster the success of all students. CJSF’s community partners organize young people, parents and caregivers, educators, and other community members to advocate on behalf of students who are disproportionately impacted by the over-use of exclusionary school discipline practices, including suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in schools. They organize community members to stand up for positive, healthy, and supportive school climates that produce better academic and social outcomes for the students who enroll than school climates with a heavy police presence, zero tolerance school discipline policies, and over-reliance on exclusionary discipline methods. CJSF’s community partners educate students, parents and caregivers, school officials and teachers, police departments, and community leaders on highly beneficial alternatives to suspension, expulsion, and school-based arrests. For more information, email us at info@cjsfund.org and sign up for our newsletter at www.cjsfund.org.

Solidarity: One World and COVID-19

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This month: In this episode of Solidarity Is This, learn about the ways in which activists in South Africa and Northern Ireland are addressing the inequities laid bare by the pandemic. Deepa is in conversation with Phumeza Lungwana and Nicola Browne.

About the Solidarity Is This podcast:

Solidarity Is This is a podcast created and hosted by Deepa Iyer who is with the Center for Social Inclusion and a 2017 Soros Equality Fellow. Each month, we explore how individuals and institutions are experimenting with and exploring multiracial solidarity. We will learn how to practice transformative solidarity in a rapidly transforming racial landscape and in the midst of heightened discrimination targeting communities of color. For more information check out: http://www.solidarityis.org/

About Deepa Iyver:

Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American activist, writer, and lawyer. Deepa is currently the Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion where she provides analysis, commentary and scholarship on equity and solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. In November 2015, The New Press published Deepa’s first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. Scholar Vijay Prashad has written that Deepa “brings the head of a lawyer and the heart of a community activist to bear on her remarkable book…It is a window into the struggles of the margins that allow the mainstream to remain humane.” Deepa’s book was selected by the American Librarians Association’s Booklist magazine to be one of the top 10 multicultural non-fiction books of the year. For more information check out: http://deepaiyer.com/

NASN School Nurse Chat: Taking Your Seat at the Table!

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This week: NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck & NASN Nursing Education & Practice Specialist Jade Bland-Slaffey speak with Virtual NASN2020 Closing Keynote Speaker Liz Dozier about the power of the school nurse’s voice and how to make your seat at the table count.

About the NASN School Nurse Chat podcast:

The NASN School Nurse Chat, a podcast hosted by NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck, highlights timely student and school health topics of interest to school nurses and other professionals focused on student health and well-being.

SchoolHouse: Global Education Justice in a Dual Pandemic of Virus and Racism

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This Month: (CJSF) hosts a town-hall style discussion of the global movement for education justice in this coronavirus moment. Organizers from South Africa, Puerto Rico, Toronto, and Honduras share their perspectives about the education justice movement.

About the SchoolHouse: Equity in Education podcast:

SchoolHouse is a podcast created by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and hosted by Allison R. Brown, Alexis J. Smith, Jaime Koppel, and Thena Robinson Mock. SchoolHouse shares stories about how young people, their families and communities, and other advocates and activists are working in and around schools to make them healthy, safe, and equitable places for children to be. In SchoolHouse, we will learn together about the global implications of local movements for change in our schools.

About CJSF:

The Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF) is a nationally-focused donor collaborative. CJSF provides resources in support of community-led organizations that are working to ensure positive and supportive school climates that affirm and foster the success of all students. CJSF’s community partners organize young people, parents and caregivers, educators, and other community members to advocate on behalf of students who are disproportionately impacted by the over-use of exclusionary school discipline practices, including suspensions, expulsions, and arrests in schools. They organize community members to stand up for positive, healthy, and supportive school climates that produce better academic and social outcomes for the students who enroll than school climates with a heavy police presence, zero tolerance school discipline policies, and over-reliance on exclusionary discipline methods. CJSF’s community partners educate students, parents and caregivers, school officials and teachers, police departments, and community leaders on highly beneficial alternatives to suspension, expulsion, and school-based arrests. For more information, email us at info@cjsfund.org and sign up for our newsletter at www.cjsfund.org.