http://www.moreheadcain.org/
Greetings from sunny Chapel Hill!
Welcome to the 2019–2020 selection year for the Morehead-Cain—the first merit scholarship program established in the United States. For more than thirty years, Canadian students have come to Carolina as Morehead-Cain Scholars and contributed to this campus as dynamic, enthusiastic students and leaders. They remain closely connected to the University, Chapel Hill, and each other as alumni. About half of our Canadian alumni live and work in Canada, and the rest are spread around the world, from the United Kingdom to Singapore, and all across the United States. The Morehead-Cain represents a compelling opportunity to study—and to make a difference—at one of the finest universities in the world: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At Morehead-Cain, we choose scholars based on four criteria: leadership, moral force of character, scholarship, and physical vigor. In each high school senior class, there are a select few who embody these criteria and set a higher standard for the school community. We encourage you to nominate up to three of your strongest student-leaders for the scholarship. We have included instructions to help you with this process. As you begin to plan for this fall, please keep a few things in mind:
If you have any questions in the meantime, please feel free to call us, at (919) 962-1201 or email us at [email protected]. We look forward to the opportunity to get to know your nominees this year, and we appreciate your efforts on our behalf!
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Lynne Lyons: Helping Anxious Kids & Families Manage Anxiety Disorders
https://www.lynnlyonsnh.com/
The shift that needs to happen. The beginning of the school year is a great time to think about the accommodations we put in place for anxious students. In my experience, most plans are not working and schools and parents are the first to acknowledge this. They’re trying to help, but the prevalence and intensity of anxiety continues to grow. Why?
Schools and parents, with the best of intentions, act in a loving, caring, helpful manner…but they often seek to provide the student with the comfort and certainty that anxiety feeds upon. Of course, concerned adults want to keep anxious kids in school, but when the plan focuses on allowing a child to avoid anxiety-provoking situations, children never learn the skill to step toward challenges; they feel permission to avoid them. Think of it this way: anxious children already know how to get out of things. That's anxiety's main coping strategy. If the accommodation plan is based on creating escapes, avoiding challenges and keeping the classroom "safe" (which to anxiety means keeping the environment predictable and comfortable) then adults are actually making the anxiety stronger and more permanent. To manage anxiety in a new way, the child must learn how to stay in the situation, and thus, respond differently to the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that worry and anxiety create. This takes work. It requires a paradigm shift, and it’s easier when we start early. As we seek to increase the emotional resilience of our children (and simply make their childhoods less stressful), here’s the question to ask: how do we help children tolerate uncertainty and gain confidence through experience, mistakes, and adaptability? Can we create an environment that truly makes room for mistakes and failure, without an undercurrent of expectations and performance? I think so. It’s our job to love them into action rather than join their fear and support their avoidance. Accommodations based on avoidance may be well-meaning and effective in the short-term, but they are the opposite of what we need to do for anxious children. |
Ms. GavelinWelcome to the world of scholarships and post secondary planning! I have been working with Valleyview students since 2005 as a Counsellor and their Scholarship liaison. I won't be able to tell you exactly what to apply for but I can give you direction on your journey through this part of high school. Archives
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