This six-minute video was shared by my favorite Montessori teacher, Samantha Vejay, with the following comment:
"'Students may be 20% of the population, but they are 100% of the future.' Thank you for the appropriate shout out to Montessori!"
This six-minute video was shared by my favorite Montessori teacher, Samantha Vejay, with the following comment:
"'Students may be 20% of the population, but they are 100% of the future.' Thank you for the appropriate shout out to Montessori!"
The Rader Ward Foundation was formed to give life-changing opportunities to students by increasing the accessibility of #Montessori education in our community. #YeahThatGreenville #AlternativeEducation @PrinceEa https://t.co/nhHER6TjxR via @YouTube
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) February 9, 2019
From Lost Got Found on Facebook:
Prince Harry, a mental health advocate, stated in an article, “Losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life, but my work as well... The experience I have had is that once you start talking about it, you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club. The goal is to normalize the conversation to the point where anyone can sit down and have a coffee and just go ‘you know what, I’ve had a really bad day, can I just tell about it?’ People are scared to talk about it, but they should be scared about not talking about it."
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A campaign, Heads Together, was jointly created by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, with an aim to end the mental health stigma in the UK. Check it out.
Instagram's famous world_record_egg partners with @MentalHealthAm for a Super Bowl message about #mentalhealth, and launches a simple website with useful mental health links from all over the world. https://t.co/XwB1EJ5ZVx https://t.co/OTOH7nxmvC via @voxdotcom
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) February 7, 2019
If you're concerned about someone, it's important to ask. If you're not sure how, this article may help. #suicideprevention #BeThe1To #seizetheawkward https://t.co/CllQ5F9GHC via @mashable
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) February 6, 2019
Yay! And thank you! We've reached 500 likes on Facebook!
When I share information about suicide prevention, mental health, and grief support, I am striving to get those resources into the hands of as many people as possible. You truly never know who needs them.
So I appreciate all of you for liking the page and interacting with my posts when you see something you find useful or meaningful. When you share a post, you might be the one who sends a message of hope to someone at just the right time. Thanks again!
We had entries on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I put all the names together in a Mario hat, and drew eight, with winners happening to come from all three social media platforms. (I had ordered an extra copy each of “How to Be a Good Creature” and “Here If You Need Me” from Amazon, because I needed to take a photo of them Thursday and wasn’t sure when the ones I ordered from my local independent bookstore would arrive. So I have eight books to give away instead of just six.) I’ve sent direct messages to all the winners on social media.
I was so pleased to join the book giveaway celebration of NotOKApp’s first anniversary. You guys are doing great work!
#MarioMonday, and #bookgiveaway day! I drew names (from a #Mario hat). Check your messages to see if you won! #8bit #SuperMarioBros #Nintendo #amiibo #supermario #books #reading #katebraestrup #symontgomery #megandevine pic.twitter.com/Bh1s2gQFpa
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) February 4, 2019
Enter by midnight EST tonight (2/3/19) for a chance to win a book 📖 in my #bookgiveaway. See earlier post for instructions. #BeOKwithABook #mentalhealth #suicideprevention #reading #books #notalone pic.twitter.com/O7UsySgqHx
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) February 3, 2019
📚Our book giveaway ends at midnight EST on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. 📚 You can enter here on Twitter, and also Facebook and Instagram @RaderWardFoundation. I'll give away two copies of each book. #bookgiveaway #BeOKwithABook #reading #books @NotOKApp @refugeingrief @SyTheAuthor
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) February 2, 2019
February 1 is #NationalFreedomDay. “Today and all days, honor #kindness, #compassion, #openarms, and #openminds.” — #SandraBoynton pic.twitter.com/CvT1ofudlG
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) February 1, 2019
#BookGiveaway time! Follow, like, and comment for a chance to win one of my three favorite #books in celebration of @NotOKApp’s anniversary. #BeOKwithABook #reading #giveaway #mentalhealth #suicideprevention pic.twitter.com/CYPkLIytuw
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) January 31, 2019
Thinking of the book giveaway in celebration of the first anniversary of notOK App tomorrow. One of the books I'm giving is Kate Braestrup's Here If You Need Me. I first heard of Kate through this story on The Moth podcast in 2015. It's about 14 minutes long and might make you cry. But its message gave me courage when Rader died. "You can trust a human being with grief ... for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy, and ... love is up to the challenge."
I'll lay out the giveaway details in tomorrow's post.
Take 15 minutes to listen to author Kate Braestrup (Here If You Need Me, one of the books I'm giving away for @notOKApp's anniversary) tell a life-changing story @TheMoth. #griefstories #griefsupport https://t.co/fEBvHpGYhL
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) January 30, 2019
In honor of my friends at @NotOKApp's first anniversary this Thursday, I'll give away two copies of this gorgeous book, How to Be a Good Creature. Stay tuned to learn how you can win! Here, it gets the Brain Pickings treatment. https://t.co/bgy2VUxxPh via @brainpicker
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) January 29, 2019
It's #MarioMusicMonday! I'm feeling some serious #nostalgia with this #headbanging guitar performance of Koopa's Road by @toxicxeternity. #SuperMario64 #SuperMario #Mario #MarioMonday #Nintendo https://t.co/isVktnyG3g via @YouTube
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) January 28, 2019
My friends at notOK App are celebrating their one-year anniversary this week with a book giveaway, and they've invited me to participate. I love books, so I'm in!
I'm planning to give away copies of my current three favorite books: It's OK That You're Not OK by Megan Devine of Refuge In Grief, Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup, and How To Be A Good Creature by Sy Montgomery.
Later I'll post details of what you need to do to win. For now, please click on notOK App and learn about who they are (tech-savvy teenagers!) and how their app can help save the lives of kids like them and anyone who struggles with mental health issues.
I'm always on the lookout for new resources to share with you. Lost Got Found is a nonprofit "dedicated to eliminating the negative stigma surrounding mental health." They have a mental illness and suicide prevention curriculum that I plan to take a look at and will tell you more about later.
One simple thing I love about Lost Got Found is their logo and slogan: "At times, life will head south, but you can always choose a new direction."
I've posted a couple more pieces of my writing from last year's workshop to the website. On the thirteenth day of writing prompts, our prompt was the number 13, and I began this way:
"Rader was born on June 13, 2001; it was a Wednesday. He also died on a Wednesday. I never memorized the Monday's Child poem, but I looked it up just now. Wednesday's child is full of woe. ..."https://t.co/f1STIiFOR2 pic.twitter.com/uD2Buab1t6
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) January 25, 2019
I had the opportunity yesterday to tour Five Oaks Academy, one of the Rader Ward Memorial Scholarship's partner Montessori schools. (Another is Montessori School of Mauldin, and I'll be meeting soon with Montessori School of Greenville.) So it is the perfect time to share this lovely film trailer with any of you unfamiliar with the Montessori method. This film focuses on primary, which is the classroom for 3-6 year olds. Our scholarships will support elementary and middle school students, but this exploration of primary demonstrates Montessori's beautiful foundation.
Unfamiliar with #Montessori? Rader Ward scholarships will support elementary and middle school students, but you can learn about the educational philosophy's beautiful foundation in this exploration of a primary classroom (3-6 year olds). https://t.co/5S2mn5r3TS #MariaMontessori
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) January 24, 2019
It’s #LibraryShelfieDay! Reading wasn’t Rader’s favorite thing to do by himself, but we enjoyed a lot of time together reading aloud when he was younger. #GaryPaulsen #LemonySnicket #JKRowling #MoWillems #PeggyRathmann #JanetMorganStoeke #LynneReidBanks https://t.co/lIpZvgTxeM pic.twitter.com/csKN4jZkdK
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) January 23, 2019
I published this essay on LinkedIn this morning. It's going to take some practice to make posts there look and work the way I want. Learning new things!
Here's a piece I wrote on how to care for yourself or someone else who has lived through an extreme and unwelcome change. #griefsupport #houseplant https://t.co/PhQlxud8rA
— Rader Ward Foundation (@RaderWardFound) January 22, 2019