"Through the Fund for Teachers, she enrolled in "Resilience and Well-Being Strengths for Teachers" and "Energy Tools and Mind-Body Activities for Self-Care" courses in Barcelona, Spain and Florence, Italy. "We are deeply invested in supporting our young people to become self-sufficient adults who are compassionate, healthy, inquisitive, and joyful contributors in the world. But doing this work IS work," Soto said. "And you cannot pour from an empty vessel.""
"Over the course of this year, she hopes to share the new skills she's learned with her colleagues to help them feel more balanced while increasing their "capacity to serve and respond as we weather the changes ahead." In many ways, Soto said, the challenges of working with young people remain the same: making sure that students are learning things that feel relevant and useful."
Natalie Yasmin Soto teaches English as a new language at a Manhattan transfer school and has spent ten years at the James Baldwin School serving students who have struggled in traditional settings and face dropout risk. She has spent three years as teacher co-director monitoring how policy shifts affect students, families, educators, and support staff. She used a Fund for Teachers grant to study resilience and mind-body self-care in Barcelona and Florence. She plans to share skills with colleagues to increase balance and capacity to support students amid fears about safety, especially for undocumented and mixed-status families.
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