So You Have a Student Experiencing Grief/Loss... Now What?

Do you have students experiencing grief? Learn how to help them recover and focus on school.

COVID-19 has likely killed relatives and friends of your students. They may also be grieving over the loss of other loved ones from winter illnesses and the recent bouts of violence plaguing the nation. You can apply proven tactics to help these students recover and learn without inadvertently triggering them in the classroom.

Optimal strategies to foster focus in the classroom will enable you to help all students learn. Targeted intervention techniques will diffuse challenging behaviors in students who are experiencing grief and loss.

• What specific language can you use?
• What refocusing techniques are effective?
• Should you provide differentiated consequences for grieving students?
• How should you interface with students who have experienced a recent loss?
• How can you create an outlet for students to recover and escape from grief?
• What steps can you take to facilitate positive interactions?

We are offering a multi-part series of specific training sessions with unique strategies that every teacher and administrator in your school can use to help all students here.