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Thriving, Engaged and Well-Balanced Students
Speaker: Denise Pope, PhD
Creating a positive "school experience" for our students has been a top District priority for over a decade. One of the instruments we have used to measure our students’ experience is the Challenge Success-Stanford Survey of School Experiences. 83% of our students participated in the survey in April. The survey gathers student insights pertaining to academic engagement, support and belonging at school, homework load and habits, stress, sleep, academic integrity, extracurricular participation, and parent expectations. We have made some progress, but have much work to do to better support our students. Here is a presentation given to the Governing Board with Districtwide data.
Dr. Denise Pope, founder of Challenge Success and expert in student well-being, will visit our community on September 18 to share her insights and current research regarding supporting our students to thrive in our high-stakes and high-pressure culture. Increasing demands on students can lead to unhealthy stress, disengagement, or debilitating physical and mental health symptoms. Dr. Pope will address how to reduce academic stress and disengagement without sacrificing achievement and examine how to increase student-resilience, creativity, competence and general well-being. The presentation will be focused on supporting high school students and will include insights for navigating the pressures of college admissions.
The Lafayette Orinda Presbyterian Church will host the event on September 18, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Seats are limited and we expect high parent interest. Please register and reserve your spot for this free parent education event at this link: Challenge Success EventBrite. We hope to see you there!
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