People Archives - Vera Pizza Napoletana Tue, 28 Sep 2021 06:11:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.verapizzanapoletana.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/favicon-70x70.png People Archives - Vera Pizza Napoletana 32 32 ‘An extra 10 minutes’: How this award-winning school psychologist connects with students and parents https://www.verapizzanapoletana.org/an-extra-10-minutes-how-this-award-winning-school-psychologist-connects-with-students-and-parents/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:35:00 +0000 https://www.verapizzanapoletana.org/?p=92 Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat Colorado Jan 8, 10:00am MST Paige Powers is a school psychologist, but when a student needed a basketball enthusiast, she answered the call.  She learned about the players on the boy’s favorite team and made time to play basketball with him for 10 minutes every day. Gradually, she earned the boy’s trust and worked with him to reign in the emotions that often flared up in the classroom.  “Basketball was the way to his heart,” Powers said.  A bilingual school psychologist in the 38,000-student Aurora district, Powers was recently named the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations Advocate […]

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