Jessie Voigts's Blog, page 9
April 18, 2025
Help the Helper: The Reality and Challenges of A Caregiver’s Role in Assisting A Person with Alzheimer’s Disease
We really never know when the time will come for us to become a caregiver for a loved one.
The requirements are taxing and caregivers are often faced with making life sacrifices. Being a caregiver is HARD. Being fully responsible for your loved one is HARD.
There is no perfect transition into this role and I have seen firsthand how much pressure caregivers experience in their efforts. Working as a CNA in a nursing home has shown me how impor...
Read This: BRAVE VOLODYMYR: The Story of Volodymyr Zelensky and the Fight for Ukraine
Whether in the classroom or at home, reading about and discussing curre...
April 16, 2025
Best Summer Vacation Spot in New Jersey
Navigating Culture Shock While Studying Abroad
According to Milton Bennett, culture shock, primarily recognized as ‘intercultural sensitivity,’ is a phenomenon that consists of six stages one emotionally transcends throughout their journey. This process is essentially the transition...
Be Kind Online helps students prevent social isolation and creates more welcome, safer schools
My career spans more than 20 years working with children and adolescents in education and nonprofits. Since joining Sandy Hook Promise in 2022, my focus has been to develop and implement high-impact school safety initiatives and violence prevention programs. This work has given me a profound insight: true school safety requires a holistic approach, extending well beyond the school grounds.
Understanding social media's role in youth culture is integral to helping ...
April 14, 2025
Read This: Our Food Grows
I have the most beautiful, artistic, DELICIOUS book to share with you today!
Our Food Grows, written by Sarah M. White, illustrated by Tessa Gibbs, and published by the Collective Book Studio, is a pure delight for young kids and their families and educators.
This interesting book focuses on food, how it comes to be, and how it ends up on our plate. With extraordinary collage illustrations (they are SO CUTE!), we learn about strawberries, tomatoes, ...
April 10, 2025
How To Recover After A Poor Or Dissatisfying Vacation
It’s never a nice feeling to save up all year for a mammoth, much-anticipated, wonderful vacation...only for it to be a disappointment. Perhaps the service you used was unreliable and overbooked, the accommodations had seen better days, there were flight cancellations or delays, or an accident, such as a cruise ship encountering a technical issue or even putting you in harm’s way, was something you had to deal with.
This can be a little dizzying; vacations are ...
April 9, 2025
Read This: This Sure Thing
I have an extraordinarily important, loving book to share with you today. This Sure Thing, written by Sarah Mayfield and illustrated by Dennis Auth, relates the story of grief and love in a family. The younger brother has passed away, and the older brother and family find ways to cope with grief, adjustment, and continuing living with such love.
There are few resources for kids about grief. This is an incredibly important and powerful book that can ...
Best apps to make you learn faster this year
In a world where gaining continuous knowledge is not just a choice but a dire necessity, the need to learn more has never been so important.
In today’s fast-paced academic environment, students are always looking for effective and efficient ways to absorb course material.
The rapidly evolving generative AI technology is reshaping how students learn smarter this year, rather than harder.
What is an AI-based learning platform?
One of the most practical applications...
April 7, 2025
Through the Eyes of an Educator: The Present Moment
“The present moment is the only moment available to us, it is the door to all moments.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
It’s officially spring. The birds wake each day chirping loudly. The sky dips between glorious sunshine and sprinkles of rain, the temperature shifts on a whim. The ebb and flow of winter’s chill transitions to summer sunshine - we’re full on in the mix of it all: the present, the here and now. This elusive space, the one so many of us would like to be able to stay...
