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Support Services: COVID-19 & Wellness Resources
Wellness and Learning Resources
The Bush K-12 Support Services Department’s goal is to support all students and families through Covid-19 and racial healing. This webpage features articles of interest and resources related to social justice, wellness, mental health, and learning support. A Bush Support Services team directory including contact information can also be found below.
We hope you appreciate exploring the various links to learn, understand, and ultimately take action to ensure equitable outcomes for all.
Wellness and Counseling
- Raising Race Conscious Children (Race Consciousness)
- Building Resilience and Confronting Risk in the Covid-19 Era (Southern Poverty Law Center)
- Mental Health and Your Child or Teen (Children’s Hospital)
- Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (Mutual Aid)
- King County Equity Now (Equity Now)
- Teens keeping safe this summer (FDC)
- Parenting Resource (Seattle ParentMap)
- Take Action as a Global Citizen (Global Citizen)
- Understanding Racism (American Psychological Association)
- Parenting Neurodiverse Kids during COVID-19 (Psychology Today)
- Asian American COVID-19 Resources (CAPAA)
- COVID-19 and the LGBTQ+ Community (Harvard University)
- Ten Percent Happier Coronavirus Sanity Guide (Ten Percent Happier)
We know in times like these it is normal to feel a sense of worry or concern about how things are unfolding. Below are suggested ways to manage this uncertainty:
- Listen to, acknowledge, and accept each other's feelings of not being in control.
- Make sure your children understand your answers and the meaning you intended.
- Use words or phrases that won’t confuse or make the world more frightening.
- Create opportunities to talk about what’s happening and how you are feeling.
- Give an honest explanation and accurate information about this experience.
- Be especially loving and supportive; we need each other at this time.
- Let the school help! The school’s resources continue to be accessible
Learning Support
- Best Practices for Remote Learning for Students with Learning Differences (Landmark College)
- 6 Habits of Super Learners (Medium.com)
- Online Learning Challenges for Kids with Learning Differences (Attitude Magazine)
- Google Voice Typing - speech to text
- Speechify - text to speech
- ModMath - free iPad app for completing math digitally
- Google Classroom App - App available for both iOS and Android devices which can be helpful in moving photos from a device to submit an assignment
Support Services
Counselors and learning specialists are available via email and phone during their regularly scheduled work hours. We are able to schedule online video conferencing as needed throughout the school day.
Leah Brown
Lower School Counselor
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Gayle Gingold
Middle School Counselor
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Betsy Wandasiewicz
Middle School Learning Specialist
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Maria Mathiesen
Upper School Counselor
Monday - Thursday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
John Ganz
Upper School Counselor
Tuesday - Friday: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sara Carter '90
Upper School Learning Specialist
Sloan Chong
Upper School Learning Specialist
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday: 12 to 4 p.m.
Leah Brown
Lower School Counselor
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Lower School Director
Contact for Lower School Support Services - Learning Specialist
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Contact for Lower School Support Services - Learning Specialist
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Gayle Gingold
Middle School Counselor
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Betsy Wandasiewicz
Middle School Learning Specialist
Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Maria Mathiesen
Upper School Counselor
Monday - Thursday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
John Ganz
Upper School Counselor
Tuesday - Friday: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sara Carter '90
Upper School Learning Specialist
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday: 12 to 4 p.m.
Upper School Learning Specialist
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday: 12 to 4 p.m.
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