![]() ![]() ![]() "Arthur" creator Marc Brown has contributed content for promoting mental health awareness. They said, ‘As we move through, this is what kids are really going to need’” in a world changed forever. So, we asked the advisors, ‘What are the things we should be paying attention to?’ and it was almost unanimous they were focused on mental health anxiety. “At the beginning of the pandemic, we were about reaching kids and helping to support the the immediate kind of anxiety, then we were really focused on how to support basic skills because so many kids were getting their learning from screens through schools. “ have a conversation about what we needed to be focused on during this time,” said of the impetus for holding the advisor meetings. ![]() In 2021, her team convened a panel of external advisors in an effort to have a discussion about how best they could help navigate the virus-mandated quarantine and its resulting social isolation. As DeWitt explained, a big driver in honing in on mental health was, of course, the pandemic. For this month, the focus is on more abstract skills as teaching children to begin learning about themselves as people. Through programs such as Sesame Street, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and many more, DeWitt and her team have sought not only to engender proper socio-emotional development in children, but also expose them to arts like music and pre-academic concepts such as colors, shapes, and the alphabet. ![]()
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