DIVIDED ATTENTION
When the children who need the most, receive the least
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DCARO's Divided Attention documentary film, funded through a grant from the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council, follows four students from Toby Farms, a public middle school in the historically underfunded Chester Upland School District, as they learn and practice mindfulness amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the school to prison pipeline, and threat of charter takeover.
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The film also serves to model how mindfulness skills instruction could be implemented in schools to impact students' social emotional wellbeing and potentially replace punitive practices that are a key factor in the School To Prison Pipeline epidemic.
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Divided Attention is meant to serve as a call-to-action to address inequitable school funding for varied audiences such as students, parents and community members.
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DIVIDED ATTENTION is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council; in part by grant number 2001PASCDD-02, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects with government sponsorship are encouraged to express their findings and conclusions. Pointsof view of opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent officil ACL policy.