
How Denver is trying to help students' mental health, 20 minutes at a time
CNN
Getting students back to classrooms after the pandemic forced schools to close was only the first step. Denver is now focused on getting them back to mental health.
Setting a calm and peaceful tone inside the classroom at the Denver Center for 21st Century Learning, a public school known as DC21, is important to her teaching, Winters told CNN, to help students grow emotionally as well as academically as the pandemic goes on.
Getting students back to in-person school was critical, but so too is dealing with the baggage they bring from a year or more of being out of the classroom.

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