In this episode of Idaho Education Association's HOTLINE Podcast, we discuss the growing, critical crisis of student mental health and wellbeing and how its impacting Idaho students, classrooms and educators. 

The panel discusses what's behind this crisis, the need for increased school staffing to help ease its impacts, how student learning and the teaching environment are affected, and how growing expectations for managing outbursts are taking a physical and emotional toll on professional educators.

Our guests for this conversation are:

• Sonia Galiviz, a veteran educator, IEA member and newly elected member of the Idaho House of Representatives 
• Brooke Calderon, an IEA regional director who spent 10-years as middle school teacher in Idaho  
• Matt Compton, IEA’s associate executive director and key member of IEA’s Lobby Team