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This week's audio show, Episode 24: Hacks for Solving Social Belonging Gaps, is part of a special series to offer ways to close each of the gaps in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as we teach and care for children during the pandemic. If you're feeling somewhat lonely and depressed, small wonder . . . the world is locked in social distancing, and humans brains are wired to suffer as a result. We can’t fully solve for social isolation right now. But we can avoid pitfalls that make

This audio show is part of a special series to offer ways to close each of the gaps in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as we teach and care for children during the pandemic. In Episode 23: Hacks for Solving Safety Gaps, I talk about shifting events are opening safety gaps for many families and children, including personal, financial, and emotional insecurities. This episode offers a few hacks, in the sense of scrappy efficient shortcuts, for governments, schools, and families who

This show offers a few shortcuts, for teachers and parents who are contending with physiological gaps.

In this audio series, we talk through what we view as the best ways to meeting children's needs amidst tough time and scarcity.

One way schools can "mind the gap" as they close temporarily is by encircling parents with messages of encouragement, support, and steadiness. Parents or other primary caregivers can take courage. We are capable of weathering this storm. Parents, school closures are tough . . . but so are we. Although schools typically share in the work of feeding, teaching, and caring for our children, for this season families carry all of that load—often while we're trying to work, deal wit

With COVID-19, Schools are rushing to build the online-learning train. But there's too big a gap for most kids. How can we #MindTheGap?