Sandy Austin
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As schools are seeing the impact of their B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams reaching struggling kids who are new, sick, hospitalized, bullied, or losing loved ones, the impact can be dramatic in creating a more caring climate in the schools. Kids are getting their eyes off their cell phones and noticing students in the halls or in their […]
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Can a hard bitter life be melted by love from kids? It happened to Rose, and kids’ lives will never be the same! When Sandy Austin was asked if the Sunrise Living Center could start a B.I.O.N.I.C. Team, she was excited to hear what Ronda Knuth’s vision was for her elderly residents at the center. […]
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The impact of COVID on families has been traumatic in many ways. At the height of the pandemic, schools switched to remote learning for months on end, and parents had to juggle helping their kids with schoolwork and the monotony of having to stay home, all the while having to balance their own workload for […]
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Our posters also encourage schools on the other side of the globe! In 2015 there was a shooting at a café in Paris. I asked our French teacher at Pomona High School where I was a school counselor and in charge of our B.I.O.N.I.C. Team at the time, how to write out the words in […]
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Why do we encourage poster outreaches as a part of our B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams to other schools/communities that experience tragedy? Sandy Austin got the idea when she was one of the most involved school counselors with the aftermath of the tragedy at Columbine High School. Seventeen years earlier, she had student taught at Columbine under one […]
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With schools starting back up this semester and COVID numbers surpassing any before, schools have been met with a new struggle during this continuing pandemic. School staff members are getting COVID at alarming rates, but there are not enough substitute teachers or other staff to cover for their sick colleagues. And then strange weather phenomena […]
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Happy New Year 2022! Over the last month from every direction, I heard people saying that they could not wait for 2021 to be over. There has been a feeling of overwhelm everywhere we look – among the young and the old. And now as we have turned the page on a new year, on […]
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It’s almost Summer! B.I.O.N.I.C. knows that families are always looking for activities to fill the calendar during summer break from school. How about including some activities to do as a family for bonding and also to make a difference in your neighborhood and community! We have planned some Family Outreach Activities for you to plan […]
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This year B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams all over the world have been reaching out and making a difference for their peers, school staff, families, and communities. Each summer families need to find activities for their kids, and this summer we want to encourage families big and small to keep the caring going that the students experienced this […]
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I think a video is worth at least 10,000. In the 14 years that I led B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams at Green Mountain High School (10 years) and then Pomona High School (4 years), over 1,200 B.I.O.N.I.C. Team members reached out to over 140,000 peers, families, school […]
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