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Choosing Hope After Tragedy with Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis
In this episode, I talk with a first-grade teacher who saved the lives of her fifteen students during the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14, 2012. Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is now an author of the book Choosing Hope and the Founder & Executive Director of Classes 4 Classes, Inc. In the attack, twenty 6 and 7-year-olds and six staff members were murdered. Kaitlin shares her story from that day as well as how she has decided to push through the trauma and grief to create a program that empowers students and teachers around the country.
Kaitlin attended UCONN and was accepted to the NEAG School of Education, where she completed her Masters of Education with honors in 2006. She was a member of Order of Omega honor society, The Historical honor society and the NEAG honor society, and was named a New England Scholar in 2005. She taught at Sandy Hook Elementary for several years before leaving to start Classes 4 Classes, Inc. In addition to her leadership role at Classes 4 Classes, Inc., Kaitlin teaches the Level III active shooter prevention course, The Power of Choice, for ONE Training.
Classes 4 Classes, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to teach children the power of kindness and compassion through their ability to create positive change for others. The platform provided by our website actively engages students in learning a social curriculum through the exchange of gifts with other K-8 classrooms, which fulfill a need or educational objective. These gifts are crowd-funded by visitors and donors to our site. The gift is given to the teacher and the students in the receiving classroom only once the project goal is reached, and the receiving classroom has started their own project to “pay it 4ward” to another classroom.
Learn more about Kaitlin and her many accolades, here: https://kaitlinroigdebellis.org/about/
Learn more about Classes 4 Classes, Inc. here: http://www.classes4classes.org/
Learn more about ONE Training here: www.trainingone.org.
Purchase Kaitlin's book, Choosing Hope, here.
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By Tom CzyzIn this episode, I talk with a first-grade teacher who saved the lives of her fifteen students during the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14, 2012. Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis is now an author of the book Choosing Hope and the Founder & Executive Director of Classes 4 Classes, Inc. In the attack, twenty 6 and 7-year-olds and six staff members were murdered. Kaitlin shares her story from that day as well as how she has decided to push through the trauma and grief to create a program that empowers students and teachers around the country.
Kaitlin attended UCONN and was accepted to the NEAG School of Education, where she completed her Masters of Education with honors in 2006. She was a member of Order of Omega honor society, The Historical honor society and the NEAG honor society, and was named a New England Scholar in 2005. She taught at Sandy Hook Elementary for several years before leaving to start Classes 4 Classes, Inc. In addition to her leadership role at Classes 4 Classes, Inc., Kaitlin teaches the Level III active shooter prevention course, The Power of Choice, for ONE Training.
Classes 4 Classes, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to teach children the power of kindness and compassion through their ability to create positive change for others. The platform provided by our website actively engages students in learning a social curriculum through the exchange of gifts with other K-8 classrooms, which fulfill a need or educational objective. These gifts are crowd-funded by visitors and donors to our site. The gift is given to the teacher and the students in the receiving classroom only once the project goal is reached, and the receiving classroom has started their own project to “pay it 4ward” to another classroom.
Learn more about Kaitlin and her many accolades, here: https://kaitlinroigdebellis.org/about/
Learn more about Classes 4 Classes, Inc. here: http://www.classes4classes.org/
Learn more about ONE Training here: www.trainingone.org.
Purchase Kaitlin's book, Choosing Hope, here.