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🚀Our year in Review! As 2024 begins, we take a look back at a year of progress, challenges and key milestones🌟 Here's to another year of working together for a brighter, safer online world for children and young people 🤝 🔗 Read: https://bit.ly/4aqZpzV

During the hieight of the pandemic and a crazy election season, my work challenged all of us to do a “random act of kindness” just to combat all the negativity. This actually changed my life!!! I did two things: 1. Sent flowers to a coworker who was amazing 💐2. Gifted a bunch of new books to a local 3rd grade classroom. 📚 I basically just never stopped doing the 2nd one!! Lift Literaure started because of that first book donation. I learned how many children are not meeting critical reading milestones in elementary school and how that affects their ENTIRE lives. I learned about “book deserts” and “low print homes” and how important it is to get books to high need families. How something this small can make a BIG difference. This week, we worked on refreshing many of the nonfiction early reader books in local schools that are 30+ years old! Think animals, art, sports, etc. Think replacing Mia Hamm books with Simone Biles. It’s been a while… We’ve gifted thousands of amazing books to local schools and students!!! You never know what an impact a random act of kindness can have!

✏ EXAM SEASON IS HERE! Does your school have all the necessary adjustments in place for students with visual impairments? In our latest membership interview, Specialist Education Support Officer for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Shiraz Ayub, talks about his role, adjustments for visually impaired students and what Guide Dogs UK does to support students. 👉 Watch the full interview at send-network.co.uk!

New! See successful interprofessional practice in action! Watch this new video featuring an interprofessional team at a Baltimore City school working collaboratively to enhance student well-being and academic success: https://at.asha.org/oL

Painting, dancing, and puzzles are more than just fun - they're a developmental powerhouse! These activities help your child: 👀 Boost their focus and concentration, setting them up for success in school. 💪 Strengthens fine motor skills needed for writing and everyday tasks. 🧠 Play is their canvas to explore, express themselves, and invent amazing solutions. At York Paediatrics, we celebrate the power of play! Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3vSqi0e

I often hear that librarians are struggling to keep up with virtual programing as the demand for physical programing continues to grow. Our bundle includes virtual program templates giving librarians a quick - easy solution to meet patron demand. As an added benefit, many of the templates bridge the gap between physical and virtual programing.

Gusto has been a great partner for Red Bridge since day one! Not only do they make managing payroll super simple, but their CEO Josh Reeves has been an invaluable mentor and board member to Red Bridge over the last five years of our startup journey. Check out this short film about Red Bridge and how we work with Gusto!

Asking for help is one of the seven main areas to support our emotional wellbeing. And! To support our emotional wellbeing is the most important component to support our mental health. But why is asking for help so hard? Because it makes us feel vulnerable. All sorts of feelings can come up when we need help - shame that we may not be good enough, or not capable enough and this is why we need help - guilt that we want to use other people’s time and attention - fear that we may not deserve the help - fear that we will be seen weak or incompetent - fear that we cannot stay in control So as Simon Sinek points it out, asking for help is indeed an act of service because we allow our loved ones to support us, and they don’t want anything more than to do that. However, in order to ask for help, very often, we first have to overcome these underlying emotions that we may attach to asking for help. These can often be below our conscious awareness. It is often a learnt pattern throughout many generations. I first heard of this idea of asking for help in 2013, till then it wasn’t a conscious concept in my head at all. So if you feel asking for help doesn’t come so easily to you, it’s ok. It’s a journey to get there and it takes practice. I am much better at it now, and I can tell you, I am still peeling layers of this onion because depending on the issue, and the people I need to turn to, stuff can still come up and I can feel my heart in my throat. But I also have the experience of how it feels to take that step and get help. I can say with 100% confidence that it’s worth step into this vulnerability of asking for help.

Teams that ask each other for help are teams that trust each other. It drives success and constant improvement. it sets the stage for teams to be more powerful and bridge weaknesses. Build an open culture of communication and help within your teams. it will quickly make ripples across your organization.

Learn more about what we do at your Ed Foundation in this latest edition of 'Foundation Focus'!