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Families: pillars of childhood development with Cerebral Palsy

Supporting children with cerebral palsy presents very particular challenges to those who fulfill this role in life. It is a path in which there are many obstacles and in which great efforts are required so that, where desirable, honestly make the best effort for the well-being of your children. At ConNosotros we opened a space that we call Workshop to support and accompany family members who are primary caregivers of our students with neuromotor disabilities. It is important to recognize and validate all the emotions and feelings that mothers and fathers go through in the development process of their children. We had the participation of an expert psychologist on the subject who, during six sessions, offered the attendees emotional self-regulation techniques, ways to identify signs of stress and learning to manage it. It has also been shown that the act of meeting and talking about common problems generates significant well-being for primary caregivers. Every day is a new discovery to be more capable and feel strengthened in your caring role.

Likewise, for these excellent female primary caregivers, we offered a gift as mothers of our students to celebrate what is known in Mexico as Mother's Day. A circle with rose petals and guided meditation was held. Together they reflected on that important role in supporting their daughters and sons.

Friendship that is built day by day

The commemoration of Valentine's Day is for ConNosotros a way to build community and strengthen bonds of friendship between students, teachers, and volunteers. We celebrate by playing games, exchanging gifts and recognizing each other. We can say that thinking about friendship is acting with the affects that emerge in everyday life at school. Everyone learns at their own pace and that is respected. It is the way of giving a place to each individual who only expects that: to be accepted as he is and recognize that even when he goes slower, he is still on the path, with his group, with his friends. In addition, a definitely fun celebration was the Karaoke afternoon, where there were prizes and a lot of enthusiasm from the participants.

 Adding hands building networks

The program promoted by the Government of the Mexican Republic called Young People Building the Future accepted our educational center as viable so that professionals from different areas would have the opportunity to participate with their knowledge and generate a work learning experience in their lives, receiving a support scholarship. Certainly each new professional involves the challenge of teaching the basic principles of the Peto Model of Conducted Education, but a dialogue of knowledge also begins between our group work team and the new generations. Definitely, your digital skills allow us to expand communication horizons. In this report we want to highlight the excellent networking that these young people contributed, building the future by recording videos on the TIck Tock platform that have made the progress of our students more clearly visible.

Please! Click on the link to the video titled “Students launch a Tick Tock campaign” where they invite an influencer to visit the school and make donations. Certainly our teenagers have a lot of fun, but we will emphasize a very important point here: our students develop confidence to work as a team and also to speak. Emitting words in our world structured with clear and accurate languages makes us look with difficulty at the form of our students' speech. Only with practice, we know how to “translate” his words. This video demonstrates the structure of the students' speech and their abilities to communicate from the subtitles that are incorporated into the video. This subtitling work adds visibility to our students. It is worth mentioning that the videos were also campaigns that called for donations to the school, having great success on social networks.

For the group of professionals from Jóvenes Construyendo un Futuro, as well as university students with professional internships or who carry out social service and volunteering at Con Nuestros, an introductory workshop to Education was offered to expand their knowledge and ensure that their work had the best results, both for our students and for their observations and knowledge as professionals in their own specialty.

New generations of artists

“It is better to be wrong” That is the motto that guides the creative spirit among our students. During March and April, two creativity sessions were held in an Art workshop led by teachers from the Chocolates Cultural Center, a public agency of the State Government. They kindly come to live and create with our students to give continuity to the activities that the center shares ConNosotros.

Our teachers: stories of dedication in loving and firm guidance for our students

Another of the Tick Tock videos that you can also click on this report is the one celebrating Teacher's Day. It was an emotional session of hugs and demonstrations of the value that our teachers have instilled in the children.

Also in this quarter, for the teachers of our school, the “Emergency Care and First Aid Workshop” was held. We must always be attentive to promoting the culture of prevention. So far no incident has occurred, but it is very important to know the eventualities that may arise in the school environment and the best and most effective way to deal with them. Congratulations!

Alumni conference about living with disabilities

ConNosotros is a bet on the future. A former student was invited to give a conference at the Cuaunahuac University on the topic: “The challenges of formal education and disability.” Our former student spoke about the difficulties of accessing higher education under the parameters that still dominate for the inclusion of people with disabilities in university studies.

25th Anniversary of ConNosotros, A.C.

How to describe two and a half decades of work, education, community and learning? We make efforts to demonstrate the advances in the mobility of our students, through the acquisition and practice of their socio-emotional skills and we talk about the advocacy processes to transform thinking and social views towards disability. Thousands of moments focused on these purposes, that with the moments that demonstrate the joy and feeling of living, including all our students, who throughout this time have been in our school, give us their testimonies and smiles, it could be said, that is the best reward for this time.

Thank you very much for thinking differently, for thinking ConNosotros!

Links:

• Los alumnos hacen campana en TicTock
• 25 Aniversario de ConNosotros, A.C.
• Rutina diaria presentada por el Influencer Tercermundista

 El inicio de un ciclo escolar representa los nuevos retos que implican dejar el cómodo ciclo de descanso de verano y captar nuevamente el interés de las y los alumnos, fomentando su entusiasmo y acompañarlos en la nueva etapa de crecimiento. En este nuevo ciclo se han formado dos grandes grupos para la educación conducida: menores y adolescentes. Para las actividades académicas escolarizadas se dividen por ciclos académicos: preescolar, primaria, secundaria y preparatoria.

Aprendizajes del grupo de adolescentes.

Los aprendizajes de la cotidianidad son incluidos en todos los programas que se planean para los grupos. Por ello, asistir al centro comercial para realizar las compras de la casa se convierte en un momento de aprendizaje colectivo y de experiencia de convivencia. Realmente nos gustaría hablar un poco más sobre este aprendizaje para el grupo de las y los jóvenes adolescentes. Para ellas y ellos son significativos los retos de seguir una lista de encargos, responsabilizarse del dinero que les envía su familia y tomar decisiones sobre lo que pueden sustituir o no de esa lista, llevar más insumos o quitar algunos si fuera necesario, sobre lo imprevisto incluso. Todos estos momentos, implican el aprendizaje de la independencia y autonomía, porque las maestras funcionan como asistentes acompañantes y no sustituyen la responsabilidad de decidir sobre las tareas. Se fortalece el pensamiento racional y la toma de decisiones, acorde al desarrollo cognitivo del grupo de edad del que les platicamos ahora. Además de ello, siempre estamos fomentando el buen humor para lidiar, como si se tratase de un juego, con las miradas hacia la discapacidad de las y los jóvenes y así como, animarles para inventar nuevas respuestas de esas miradas que reciben, creando maneras de socializar si cargar los obstáculos todavía por resolver de nuestra sociedad.

El programa para jóvenes adolescentes incluye una serie de talleres de actividades de la vida diaria como manejo de electrodomésticos y preparación de alimentos. De manera conjunta han estado preparando sus desayunos y degustando delicias como pizza, paletas de limón con pepino y enfrijoladas. Asimismo, en la escuela iniciaron un ciclo de capacitación para el trabajo con el taller de elaboración de velas que prepararon para vender. Con las ventas de las velas iniciaron el taller de jabones artesanales. Sus productos se vendieron en la Kermess escolar, el concurso de paellas y con todos los visitantes de la escuela. Los adolescentes recibieron además capacitación en un Taller de Plantas Medicinales en el Centro Cultural Los Chocolates que depende de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado de Morelos. En este taller elaboraron un botiquín básico de primeros auxiliares a partir de plantas medicinales. Fue una hermosa experiencia en la cual también participaron familiares acompañantes.

 Y para aumentar los retos el grupo de adolescentes tuvo sesiones de entrenamiento Cross Fit respondiendo a esa inquietud tan natural de esa etapa de la vida del cuidado de si mismo, de mejorar su apariencia. ¡Enhorabuena por los esfuerzos!

Nuestro grupo de la infancia: preescolar y primaria

Dicen las maestras: “Es muy difícil pasar por el grupo de preescolar y no tomar fotografías”Siempre el trabajo de los más pequeños evoca la ternura y el compromiso para con ellos. Fortalecer sus habilidades cognitivas a con actividades lúdicas como armar rompecabezas y estimular sus capacidades moto-sensoras. Presentar juegos para separar los desechos y hacer conciencia de la importancia de reducir, reciclar y reusar. Participar en fiestas y celebraciones tradicionales como año nuevo y posadas navideñas. Todo eso para fortalecer el sentido de pertenencia en su grupo escolar.

Día internacional de la parálisis cerebral

En ConNosotros, apoyamos a las familias ya los alumnos a pensar la parálisis cerebral como una condición de vida que, a partir del enfoque de trabajo del modelo Pëto de Educación Conducida, podemos descubrir que pensar y trabajar activamente de la mano de la condición de vida de cada uno. Sabemos que se puede ir más lejos que los conceptos limitantes de la idea de “discapacidad”. Muy recomendable analizar el video que se muestra anexo a este informe. Construir nuevas miradas sobre la discapacidad, más esperanzadoras a partir de las experiencias y logros del trabajo en nuestra escuela. Este video está realizado a partir de los testimonios de los alumnos, de su esfuerzo y su trabajo, así fue como nos hicimos presentes en el Día internacional de la parálisis cerebral.

¡Gracias por pensar diferente, pensar Con Nosotros!

Links:

• Dia internacional de la discapacidad
• Visita al gimnasio
• Elaboracion de productos artesanales