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In this excerpt from our “After the Shootings: How to Help Our Kids and Ourselves” episode, AFT President Randi Weingarten talks with Dr. Pamela Cantor (founder of Turnaround for Children), Abbey Clements (co-founder of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence) and Sarah Lerner (teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School) about the real solutions that educators and parents can use to help their children navigate and heal from the traumatizing news about school shootings.
Survivors Next DoorGun Violence does not stop with a victim. Every incident continues to impact survivors and communities for years and sometimes lifetimes. On this episode of Radio GAG Sarah Germain Lilly speaks with survivors in Brooklyn, NY, Parkland, Florida and Aurora, Colorado. They share their experiences and a message of healing and change. Sandy Phillips tells us about Survivors Empowered and their plans for a retreat center to heal trauma from gun violence. Sarah Lerner tells us how she and her students are coping five years after Parkland. Educational Advocate Celia Green and her sons share how gun violence affected their family and their lives.Join us for Radio GAG 2.7.23 for Gun Violence Survivor's Week.https://www.facebook.com/GaysAgainstGunsNYC
Gun Violence does not stop! Every incident impacts survivors and their communities for years and sometimes lifetimes. This week on Radio GAG, Sarah Germain Lilly speaks with survivors in Brooklyn, NY, Parkland, FL, and Aurora, CO. They share their experiences and a message of healing and change. Sandy Phillips tells us about Survivors Empowered and their plans for a retreat center to heal trauma from gun violence. Sarah Lerner tells us how she and her students have been coping five years after Parkland. Educational Advocate Celia Green and her sons share how gun violence affected their lives and family.
This year's convention saw an amazing roster of speakers -- labor leaders, entertainers, elected officials, activists and even the First Lady of the United States -- who all took the stage to share inspirational messages of hope and power. In this episode you will hear highlights from: US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, Senator Elizabeth Warren, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler, Amazon union leader Chris Smalls, First Lady Jill Biden, Senator Ed Markey, Gun safety activists David Hogg, RuQuon Brown and Sarah Lerner, Chief Medical Officer of Cook County Health Claudia Fegan, Representative Ayanna Pressley, Ukrainian Labor Union leader Olga Chabaniuk, and Representative Val Demings.
Parkland, Florida, teacher Sarah Lerner shares her poignant thoughts as the nation reacts to the latest deadly school shooting. Lerner was teaching the day a former student killed 17 at her high school; she has gone on to help lead Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence. Lerner discusses with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter how public health must continue its focus on stopping gun violence and what lawmakers can do.
Parkland, Florida, teacher Sarah Lerner shares her poignant thoughts as the nation reacts to the latest deadly school shooting. Lerner was teaching the day a former student killed 17 at her high school; she has gone on to help lead Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence. Lerner discusses with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter how public health must continue its focus on stopping gun violence and what lawmakers can do. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen
Sarah Lerner is painfully familiar with how teachers in Uvalde, Texas must have felt as a gunman attacked their elementary school and fatally shot 21 people on May 24. In 2018, Lerner kept 15 students safe in her classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., while a teenager armed with an AR-15-style rifle shot and killed 17 people on the campus. “We get into education because we love children, we love our subject matter, and we love teaching.
Parkland, Florida, teacher Sarah Lerner shares her poignant thoughts as the nation reacts to the latest deadly school shooting. Lerner was teaching the day a former student killed 17 at her high school; she has gone on to help lead Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence. Lerner discusses with hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter how public health must continue its focus on stopping gun violence and what lawmakers can do. The post A Teacher From Parkland H.S. Reflects on the Uvalde & Buffalo Mass Shootings appeared first on Healthy Communities Online.
Radio GAG team: Libby Edwards, Ti Cersley, and Sarah Germain Lilly speak with Sarah Lerner, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who survived the shooting and edited an anthology of the survivor's voices: Parkland Speaks. Parkland survivor Cat Tibbetts will outline what kind of activism she foresees as the pathway to end gun violence. Sarah Lerner, Abbey Clemments and Sari Beth Rosenberg, founders of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence talk about their movement to organize teachers and create change. Wrapping up the show, best selling author Dave Cullen, NY Times bestsellers Parkland: Birth of a Movement and Columbine, Gabby Giffords - Vanity Fair profile will talk about his work and the Gun Violence Prevention Movement.
A special broadcast featuring gun violence survivors demanding their right to be safe at school and in their lives. The Radio GAG team, Libby Edwards, Ti Cersley, and Sarah Germain Lilly speak with Sarah Lerner, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who survived the shooting and edited an anthology of the survivor's voices: Parkland Speaks. After hearing Parkland survivor Cat Tibbetts read from the book, we are joined by Abbey Clemments and Sari Beth Rosenberg, founders of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence who talk about their movement to organize teachers and create change. And calling in live will be GAG Activist Jay W. Walker reporting on GAG's Bloody Valentine action in NYC and Manuel Oliver, father of Joaquin Oliver and Igor Volsky of of Guns Down America in action in DC. Wrapping up the show, best selling author Dave Cullen, NY Times bestsellers Parkland: Birth of a Movement, Columbine, and Gabby Giffords - Vanity Fair profile will talk about his work and the Gun Violence Prevention Movement.
45,000 more people will die from gun violence in 2022 in the USA unless we take action. Manuel and Patricia Oliver, parents of Joaquin Oliver, have been holding a vigil outside the White House this month to demand leadership from President Biden to reduce gun deaths. Radio GAG shares their goals and strategies in creating zero tolerance for gun violence in the U.S. Sarah Lerner, activist and teacher from Marjorie Stoneman Douglass High School, explains what she and her community have experienced as survivors and shares details about the anthology “Parkland Speaks”; and her organization “Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence” https://twitter.com/TeachersUnify
English and journalism teacher Sarah Lerner and host Evelyn Lauer discuss the tease of hybrid learning, the productivity of working back at school, and her 46 days of working remotely after Covid-19.Lerner teaches at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. She was the 2014 Sun-Sentinel High School Journalism Teacher of the Year, a 2019 CSPA Gold Key recipient and 2020 Special Recognition Adviser from CSPA, as well as the 2019 Woman of Distinction from Alpha Xi Delta. She was also the editor and a contributing writer for Parkland Speaks, published by Random House. She writes a blog called Life Long Lerner.You can connect with Sarah on Twitter @mrs_lerner and follow "Parkland Speaks" on both Instagram & Twitter via @parklandspeaks.You can follow host Evelyn Lauer on Twitter or Instagram @evelynalauer.
Meet Sarah Lerner, an advisor for the yearbook and an English and journalism teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.On February 14th, 2018, 17 individuals at the school lost their lives to gun violence. In the aftermath of this tragedy, Sarah and her students wrote and published an award-winning yearbook in the space of a few months honoring the victims.Sarah is passionate about mental health and advocating for gun reform. She was a finalist for both the Florida Scholastic Press Association Teacher of the Year and the Columbia Scholastic Press Gold Key Award. She also oversaw the publication of the student written anthology Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories. Follow Sarah on Twitter @mrs_lerner.Learning Moments: Teachers in America profiles K–12 teachers across the country. Hear firsthand from the people who are shaping young lives in the classroom every day. If you or someone you know would be a good candidate for Teachers in America, please email us at shaped@hmhco.com.Read more on Shaped, including a full transcript and background on this episode: https://www.hmhco.com/blog/podcast-sarah-lerner-in-parkland-florida-for-teachers-in-americaDuring this time, HMH is supporting educators and parents with free learning resources for students. You can visit hmhco.com/learningsupport for more information.
Recorded live at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Spring Convention, host Jim Jordan sat down with yearbook adviser Sarah Lerner and students who survived the February 14, 2018 tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In the weeks following the shooting that left 17 dead, Lerner was approached about putting together a book of work about their school's experiences that day and after. The result is "Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share their Stories." In this episode, Lerner and students who contributed to the book share their stories about using writing and art to process the experience.
A year after 17 people were murdered by an armed intruder inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., a debate rages over whether allowing teachers to carry guns in their classrooms would serve as a useful deterrent to future attacks. We discuss the issue with MSD teacher Sarah Lerner, Moms Demand Action leader Gay Valimont and Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In part two of Jim Jordan's interview with yearbook adviser Sarah Lerner, Jim and Sarah discuss what happened after the tragic Valentine's Day events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Sarah Lerner discusses how the events changed her staff and how they finished the book. She shares her thoughts on the importance of mental health care, mixing journalism and politics, and the national movement started by survivors. If you haven't listened to part one of Sarah and Jim's interview, we strongly encourage you to find it on your app or at walsworthyearbooks.com/podcasts.
In this episode of Yearbook Chat with Jim, Jim Jordan interviews Sarah Lerner, the yearbook adviser at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The school was launched into the national spotlight after a school shooting on Feb. 14, 2018, left 17 people dead. Sarah and her staff were tasked with creating a yearbook that honored those victims, but still showed the rest of the school and school year. It was no easy task, especially for students and staff still grieving the tragedy. Sarah shared her important story with Jim. This is part one of her interview, part two will be released July 26.
Survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Massacre Eric Garner and Sarah Lerner, teachers, as well as student Kyra Parrow.