All school stakeholders need to upgrade their skills, competencies and attitudes for today's world. Trying to return to pre-pandemic behaviors should not be what families nor schools seek since all children were not being taught to prepare for a better future. We overlooked a lot of problem areas pre-2020. Reminders of those past areas are everywhere in your face due to social media - and it's now time to deal with them. This period is sort of like pulling a scab off a sore before it's healed what's underneath. 

We are in the second decade of the 21st century but pre-pandemic and present actions and behaviors are more like  those from mid century - and centuries earlier in our nation!  We're in a period where some very vocal people are letting it all hang out as they act their worst towards others with different opinions while trying to take away a few social advances. Many people are trying to heal from this hurtful period where too many Americans and others across the world have lost their lives.  Some people are trying to grasp hope so  financial security in a changing work environment increases. Additional training and education beyond high school are needed for young folk but also for older generations raising children - or not.  

The 21st century has brought changes, challenges and opportunities.  Continuous learning is required to keep up with those changes - especially during this period. We have to understand the many contradictions inherent in our nation's history and how they impact today.  We also have to learn how to live more peacefully with our families and other cultures. 

This requires that all ages use relationship-building, critical thinking and learning skills to develop and hone more positive behaviors, skills and attitudes.  This will help us to show more caring in the roles we play  but also for our joint care as human beings on a planet undergoing people-made climate crises. These areas illustrate the complex and holistic nature of our connected lives.  We have to adjust to change in a rapidly shrinking world.   Schooling Solutions is set to help school stakeholders as they work to empower themselves on different levels so they can better prepare children in next generations for their futures.  

              Let's have a conversation to talk about what you need 

and how Schooling Solutions can help support your efforts . . . . 

Call & leave a message or text Dr. Mapp at 1.4BEST1.1411 (423.781.1411) or email [email protected]

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Here S.A.U.C.E. brings seldom-discussed, yet connected, topics to the forefront 

to gain different ways of viewing problems for improved results.  

Adding S.A.U.C.E. can improve the flavor of whatever solution you seek. 

 S.A.U.C.E. was a framework created by Dr. Mapp as she sought to find solutions to tough problems related to life, education, research, work and her family over many decades. The S.A.U.C.E. framework is used to assist stakeholders in gaining deeper holistic understandings for solutions to complex problems since we now know that everything is connected.   Contact Dr. Mapp for consultations, workshops and later speaking engagements.  She has also developed books, posters and other resources to further support what you're going through.  The books and resources in this series are related to the challenges and opportunities of the early 2020's and beyond.  They will be used repeatedly!    The S.A.U.C.E. Book Series include:  

1) OUR CHILDREN AND FUTURE: Lessons in Family and School Engagement © 2019

    Called thought-provoking, holistic and realistic, this book is a must-read for families, educators and society to engage better with children.  Excerpted, Updated and Renamed from You Are Your Child's Best Teacher: A Holistic Guide to Link Home and School  © 2015.  Books 2, 3, 4 and 6 that follow were excerpted from Our Children and Future into shorter, updated books.

2) MAKING SENSE OF TODAY: How to Connect for a Better Tomorrow © 2020

    Personal decisions impact society and families as the smallest social units in society.  Humanity has gone through turning points before, but this period of connections and deaths are a tipping point for our earth, too.  We have to make sense of the past so we can plan a better tomorrow. This book helps readers delve below the surface to figure out what's happening and decide whether personal decisions are for the good of our children and future lives.  

3) PREPARE OUR CHILDREN FOR THEIR WORLD: Clues from Birth thru Graduation © 2020      For parents and families who want and may need clues to prepare their children for more success in school and in life.  This book has been updated with specific references to overcoming the covid19 and social pandemics.    

4) PREPARE OUR CHILDREN Spiral Bound Guided Journal and Book with Clues from Birth thru Graduation © 2020      This journal plus book are written especially for YOU if you have a new set of children due to pandemic changes. Writing your thoughts down may help you to be more successful with changes in your life.  

5) "BUT WE DON'T BRING THAT TO SCHOOL!"  Racial Dynamics in Classrooms and Schools  © 2022       PRE-ORDERS @ 50% Discount until 14 February 2022.   A qualitative dissertation developed into a book for educators and other stakeholders to understand racial dynamics, engagement and efficacy in classrooms and schools.  

6) FOR 2020s QUARANTEENS: The 4-1-1 on School and Life Success © 2022 

    Support for high school students who were quarantined at home with their families during multiple pandemics with clues for healing and moving beyond this period.    

HOW DOES DR. MAPP  KNOW WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN? 

I’ve been where you are! I had to change to transform myself to keep up so I could be successful during changing and stressful times. Throughout my life, education and work experiences I learned to support others so they became empowered to transform themselves. As an entrepreneur I consult with groups and coach individuals to become the change they seek, and my books and remote webinars extend this support today. More importantly, as a parent of five children (one daughter and four sons) who grew up to earn engineering degrees, I had to research the best ways to parent and teach them, my middle school students and all jobs I experienced. Schooling Solutions has what you need while working through and after the pandemics. 

WHAT'S MAKING TODAY SO DIFFERENT?  OR IS IT MORE OF THE SAME?  

Many people forget that families are not just collections of related adults and children. They are a nation's smallest social units and important to society's survival and functioning. The family is a social institution that provides rules about how to live in society through social behaviors, expectations and societal roles.  Many Americans have faith in the power of education to transform society, and some want it to help them transform family life. The U.S. has never had quality education for all.  Social and economic inequities have always been reproduced in our school systems to mirror society.  Change is especially required to meet the needs of the 2020s.  

Society constantly shows that it's unstable, but this period brings in-your-face views of this ​instability on many media screens. The most recent round of major instabilities in our nation and the world began in March  2020.   The viral pandemic changed life as we know it everywhere with fears about the unknown disease that's killing too many but is still not taken seriously by all.  That instability escalated to include dormant and new problems in our families and our nation (and around the world) that include:

1. Demonstrations against racism and racial injustice (with little understanding by too many Americans of what racism really is,  the history of US policing, etc.);
2. Home uncertainties with more stressed out parents dealing with work or no work, meeting family needs and remote learning at home (that's inconsistent across schools with too much or little of some things) coupled with  fears of bringing the virus home, whether or not to vaccinate, etc.;
3. Economic inequities with little money for families exist that keeps them from meeting their needs and access to nutritious foods, shelter, and other necessities of life  (fair pay for work and human dignity have been ongoing problems for centuries);  
4. Harsh and divided personal and political conversations and actions that threaten our democracy; and
5. Severe weather conditions caused by the climate crises where people activities, poor decisions and pollution hurt the Earth and hurt humans, too! 

We Support Families and Adults Working Directly with Children, no matter their age,   

 Older Adolescents, Millennials and Gen Z   

with The S.A.U.C.E. Book Series, Products and Virtual Workshops

Contact Dr. Mapp by calling or leaving a message at 1.4BEST1.1411