Lessons Learned in the Wake of Tragedy: Lindsey Kahney Shares Insight From School Shooting Response Training

Read her moving account within.

School Bullying: How Parents Can Help Their Kids Deal with Bullying

Youth should not suffer silently. Here are ideas parents can share with their children to deal with bullying.

Prevent Runaway Episodes with NRS’ Newly Updated Runaway Youth Prevention Curriculum

NRS’ runaway prevention curriculum, Let’s Talk is updated for 2015!

Based on the needs of teachers and administrators, social…

Making School A Safe Place

Summer is almost halfway over and some of you…

National School Backpack Awareness Day

National School Backpack Awareness Day is an annual event held on the third Wednesday of every September by occupational therapists. The day is…

How School Can Link To Running Away

The National Runaway Switchboard did some analysis of data to investigate the link between school behavior and running away. Some of the school…

Back to School on a Budget

It’s that time of year again. Are you ready for school? Are you concerned about school supplies or clothes? If you are low on cash, don’t worry -…

Navigating The Hallways At School

Outside of long division, chemistry experiments, book reports, studying and homework, and the whole academic portion in general, school can be, well,…

Multilingually Talented

My favorite class in school has always been foreign language, which for me is French. French itself might not be the most useful language to know…

School Violence

It is heartbreaking to see the school shooting occurring in Ohio. However, what more disturbing is the trend of increasing violence in U.S. schools…

Tardiness

Last year, my school had five minute passing periods. That meant four minutes for loitering after one class, and one minute of frantic dashing to get…

Longer School Days

One of the arguments you always hear about reforming our schools is that we need to make the school day longer. Now, lucky for current students, this…

Apprehension

Growing up, every Sunday felt ominous. Even though it was a day off, I would spend it in fear of the Monday to follow, when school would resume,…

Changes For Better

To meet the goals that I have set I have started making little changes in my day for better. I have been told it is a better choice than what I was…

Grades

Grades are a very important part of and about school. You need to have good grades to be able to get to where you want to go in the future. I need to…

Labels

Every day when I walked into the school cafeteria, I always noticed how segregated everyone was. It was always one ethnic group to each table, and…

Forced Books

Reading, for me, is a pretty constant endeavor. During breakfast, on the train, in bed, and in other moments of freedom, I like to pick up a book. But…

Planning Ahead

You should start planning ahead because the rest of your life could depend on what you do in the eighth grade and high school. Jobs are getting harder…

Schoolwork

School has all of the sudden hit me and gotten harder. I got to study harder than I normally would, homework is longer. More tired than ever. I’m…

Life Decisions

I am stuck between two great high schools. I can only commit to one and I can go to either one unless I move, which could happen too. The really bad…

Leaning Isn’t Cheap

One of the few things I miss from high school is that the textbooks were free. Sure, they may have been covered in a decade’s worth of graffiti,…

High school drop out

It was a while since I spoke to one of my friends. He came over, and told me he dropped out of high school. He isn’t the first person that has told…

Tough Choices

In my school district we have two high schools and we have too many people going to one high school. There’s a lottery for one hundred people to see…

Reaching New Heights of Procrastination

I can’t imagine a worse time to be on Facebook than during finals. It’s like an echo chamber of people complaining about their tests and papers.…

Planning for less stressful finals

It’s final season, which means sudden shortages of chairs in the library, increases in coffee sales at the café, and frantic typing on view…

Memorization

As I was studying for a recent test, trying to cram arcane facts into various corners of my brain, I started wondering about memorization. Primarily,…

The purpose of learning

High school wasn’t that long ago for me. I remember hearing questions like “What is your GPA?” or “How many AP classes are you taking?” my…

Left Without Learning

Schools cannot function if there are not any teachers or students. It is just an empty building but schools should never be empty or lacking teachers.…

Hard Work Pays

The idea that each of us has a fix “amount” of intelligence is often considered our implicit explanation of why some people do better than some…

We’re Still Human

There are many special needs kids in the world and yet only so few are accepted. I never had this in my family but I do know one of my friends who has…

Back in the System

The day I received my letter, I was finally able to return to school. This would be a huge transition for me. The first day I back in the school…

Home of the Outcasts

Outcasts, druggies, whores: these were all names that were used for us teens that stayed in a group home. It was only a few days ago that I had lost…

Connection Between Grades and The Game

It is important to have good grades. With that being said, we had to replace like 4 football players today because of them not taking care of…

How to Get Better Grades

I am currently doing very well in school – my lowest grade is a B. I am pretty sure, wait, no, I am confident that all teachers really want is for you…

How to Deal with Wins and Losses

Today was an amazing example of what I said last time how to get hype and be ready. Today we won 26-25. We were down 12-0 at halftime and we got…

New Start

The new school year is coming up. Everyone always gets excited. Since I’m college, of course I’m excited. I get to leave home for awhile and have…

Passion vs. Perfection

It seems that our schools and parents are pushing young people to earn A’s, to take Advanced Placement classes, to have high standardized test…

Real-Life Tardy Bells

Recently I was hired for a job. I went through a processing session. During the session they went over our paperwork and rules for the job. The…

Practice Makes Perfect

I know you may think this is crazy writing something about school in the middle of June but, it may actually be a good time to start. If you are…

Staying in School

It’s important to stay in school because it will provide so much for you later when it comes to getting a job or a career. A job is perfectly fine,…

Eating While Studying

Many students like having a snack or two around when they’re studying/cramming for their classes either just to keep up or to prepare for an exam.…

Staying on Track

Lately I’ve been rather overwhelmed by the amount of work I have to get done by certain dates. Sometimes I’ll have to say it’s hard to do…

Juggling Act

On one hand you have all the things that matter to you: a social life that keeps you satisfied, and excited, and stress free; the ever-missing free…

Keeping It Balanced

The latest issue of Switched-On is about balance. Many students have to balance homework and extracurricular activities. Sometimes it may be hard to…

Standing Out From the Crowd

First day of school, my third grade year. I walked into Ms. Stephenson’s class (soon to be Van Veen, due to an impending marriage at the end of her…

Learning Opens Doors

Learning is something that I think is taken for granted by most people in America. It is also one of the easiest procedures to initiate and the most…

Achieving Your Goals

It feels so good to achieve a goal. You feel like a new person and you feel the self motivation to set more goals to be accomplished. The goals that…

Work vs. Play

We often hear the society’s emphasis on education on newspapers and TV shows. But as a teenager, it is hard to keep education in focus with our…

Bullying

It saddens me every time teen bullying makes newspapers’ headlines. It is not ok to bully. Whatever your religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation…

School Violence Can Be Prevented

As a former student of the Chicago Public Schools, I personally feel that school violence is a major issue. But school violence can be…

Respect

Do you have respect for your friends, classmates, and teachers? Well, before you answer that, how do you show respect? Well I can name a lot of…

Work Hard – It Pays Off

Sometimes it’s times when kids don’t fit in at school, other times it’s kids that fit in well but are getting bad grades in school. I am a…

Ugh, School

School started for me August 18. I’m in the 6th grade,and going to a new school could be the hardest thing ever. On the first day, I was hoping for a…

Graduation Day…

After four years, the day has finally arrived and now I enter a new stage of my life. Today is my graduation day. Now it’s true that I haven’t had…