[CASL-L] LESSON PLANS for how to COPE with a natural disaster

[IRENE KWIDZINSKI]

FYI


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From: Sharon F. Corey <sharonf_corey at yahoo.com>
To: "aaslforum at ala.org" <aaslforum at ala.org>
Sent: Mon, November 5, 2012 8:48:45 AM
Subject: [aaslforum] Re: Re: looking for LESSON PLANS for how to COPE with a 
natural disaster


This one appears excellent:
After The Storm
http://www.7-dippity.com/other/AfterTheStorm.pdf
 
Other links found here:
National Center for Homeless Education - Disaster Planning and Response
http://center.serve.org/nche/dis/students.php
 
From: "Evans, Cathy" <cevans at stmarysschool.org>
To: aaslforum at ala.org 
Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 7:48 AM
Subject: [aaslforum] Re: looking for LESSON PLANS for how to COPE with a natural 
disaster
 

There are some good .gov resources.  Try these:

http://rems.ed.gov/docs/NASP_NaturalDisaster_HelpChildrenFamilies.pdf
http://dmh.mo.gov/docs/diroffice/disaster/FAQHandbook.pdf


On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Sarles Patricia  (18K500) 
<PSarles at schools.nyc.gov> wrote:

As you know, New Jersey, NYC, and Long Island were hit pretty badly by Sandy. We 
already know of 12 families whose children attend one of the three schools in 
our building on Staten Island who have lost EVERYTHING.
>
>I work in a campus school, which means that our one school building serves 3 
>schools: two high schools and a middle school. All three schools have an 
>advisory program whereby students meet once a day with their advisory teacher to 
>discuss current events, tween/teen issues, and anything else that is important 
>to students, e.g. school matters, bullying prevention, etc.. Hurricane Sandy 
>will probably be the topic of discussion for some time to come.
>
>So we need lesson plans for our advisory teachers to use to teach/help our 
>students COPE with living through and dealing with the aftermath of a natural 
>disaster. One librarian has already reached out to me and asked me what we in 
>Staten Island need. My home weathered the storm well and so did my school and 
>school library because I live and work in an area of Staten Island that is on 
>higher ground and was not as badly hit as the other parts of the island. We are 
>not a neighborhood school however, and therefore our students come from all over 
>the island. Although we will learn more in the days ahead what our students are 
>dealing with, we are anticipating that many will be dealing with some very tough 
>stuff.
>
>Just to give you an example, I took a 5 mile drive to my bank yesterday and it 
>took me over an hour to get there because of the lack of power to traffic 
>lights. (Turned out it was closed when I got there anyway due to the lack of 
>electricity). It is usually a 10 minute trip. I saw for myself those long gas 
>lines. I saw people collecting donations in the bank parking lot and I saw utter 
>confusion and chaos on the roads. Life has been completely turned upside down, 
>and it took me another hour just to get home a very short distance on a very 
>small island.
>
>I am appealing to the AASL listserv because I know that our list members come 
>from all over the States and have themselves been through natural disasters. 
>What did your school communities do to support students through a difficult 
>time, particularly a disaster on a massive scale? What lessons were taught in 
>class that helped teachers help students cope with their lives being upended? 
> If you'd like to see some pictures of what our students are dealing with, you 
>can see some here:
>
>https://statenisland.recovers.org/
>
>I am among the fortunate. I have power and safe drinking water, though I did 
>lose it for a time, and I can search the Internet myself, but maybe you already 
>have some lesson plans you can share. I have already found plenty of material 
>about how to help children cope, but structured, actual lessons for advisory are 
>what I am looking for.
>
>I will share with the list what is shared with me.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Patricia
>
>
>____________________________________________
>Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS
>Librarian
>Jerome Parker Campus Library
>100 Essex Drive
>Staten Island, NY 10314
>718-370-6900 x1322
>psarles at schools.nyc.gov
>http://www.scoop.it/t/help-with-the-common-core-state-standards/
>http://paper.li/psarles/1332609247
>
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>of the many. - John Naisbitt, Megatrends
>
>The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it - all the 
>books are scattered on the floor.  - D.C. Denison, Boston Globe
>
>Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. 
>- Mitchell Kapor
>
>To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief 
>aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to 
>discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from 
>the fiction ... The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think 
>intensively and to think critically. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The Purpose of 
>Education
>


-- 
Cathy Evans, Director of Libraries
St. Mary's Episcopal School
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