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Supporting Our Students in the Real World

Grant Wood Âé¶¹Ô­´´'s Media Library offers many professional titles related to teen mental health. Here are three titles our Media Librarians recommend to teachers and administrators to better understand real world ways to support our students. Your copy can be reserved for free through our by clicking the titles below.

To address the challenges Generation Z faces, educators and leaders are changing their strategy from emphasizing grades and tests to instilling students with skills they can use to make more positive life choices for themselves.

Ready for Real Life: Unpacking the Five Essential Soft Skills Great Leaders  Instill in Their Students - Growing Leaders
Presents a teen-level view of stresses and joys behind digital screens, including peer relationships, conflict, digital footprints, and civic life. Behind Their Screens offers essential reading for any adult who cares about supporting teens in an online world. Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing):  Weinstein, Emily, James, Carrie: 9780262047357: Amazon.com: Books

With social media and constant connection, the boundaries of privacy are stretched thin. This book shows us that by focusing on character, not the threat of getting caught or exposed. We can support our kids to be authentically themselves.

Growing Up In Public - By Devorah Heitner (hardcover) : Target