Schools : It's Pink October ! Always ! Resources

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It's the last week! Time to talk about Pink October in school education. Always!

Education helps students and teachers to aware about Breast Cancer and other cancer diseases to be informed and take care of family, but also of their own lives.

Let us all, teachers and students, take part in October’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign to increase awareness about the disease. 

💗Theme 2022:

 “Be the heroine of your life”.

On this occasion, Pink Ribbon Foundation inaugurated its awareness campaign organized all throughout October, with the theme of “heroines”, accompanied by its powerful message: “Be the heroine of your life”.

National Breast Cancer Foundation

• Education:

Every year an new opportunity to draw attention from our students. Girls and boys are growing up faster and need to be aware that it is out there and early detection is the best cure and hope of getting through this awful thing.

😪Let me remind you, the leading cause of death for children under the age of 15:

"In developing countries, over 100,000 children die each year due to poor diagnoses and lack of access to basic treatment options. If given the generic drugs and simple medical procedures so desperately needed it is estimated that more than half of them could be saved. Instead, survival rates stand at 20 percent."

Most cancer awareness programs traditionally target adults and populations considered to be at risk for developing cancer. Consequently, little attention has been given to educating younger populations about cancer. To address this gap in childhood education.

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Unfortunaly, as educators, we all have known in school some children and young people who have or had cancer or often coexist with cancer because they have brothers or sisters, sometimes mothers or grandmothers suffering with this disease.

University of Southern California’s (USC) 

credits: Rosa Johnson

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“I'm dream of the day when every child can be promised a cure."

Jessica

Schools must holding special programs to tell students about how survival rates increases through an early detection.

I think it would be very important to include cancer awareness into every school curriculum, not only in sciences curriculum.

I know several schools that involve young students to raise awareness about this disease. I did every year.

“Education helps students and teachers not only protect their families, but also their own lives” 

Resources:  

• A film about children cancer

The Healer

Paco Arango, 2017

https://www.imdb.com/

From different books and films that I've already suggest in different publications. Here another film about cancer at young age. The Healer by Paco Arango, 2017. 

Pink October is about breast cancer. I know! It's the main theme. But why not to talk about cancer in general and children cancer awareness?! I know there is the Child Cancer Awareness Month in September. But the theme is not include into school curricula. 

The Healer

Paco Arango, 2017

https://www.imdb.com/

• The Healer

A young man suddenly discovers he has the gift of healing. Trying to understand it and the new reality it offers, a teenage girl with terminal cancer unexpectedly shows him the way.

It's funny and inspiring movie at the same time. Truly loved it! May teachers include it and explore it into their lessons. You have the time. And students will understand the feeling of a young lady who have cancer.

This movie is actually very personal and bittersweet for me. The character of Abigail was based on a dear friend of mine, a student, who died of cancer. So for me it’s somewhat surreal that I see someone portraying a character based on her, and yet many of the people who watch the movie were not as blessed as I was to have the feeling of being her teacher and friend for several years until she was taken from us so young by complications from cancer at a tender age.

The Healer

Paco Arango, 2017

https://www.imdb.com/

Some notes:

Teachers can teach students that many diseases, including some types of cancer, can be prevented through healthy lifestyle habits, such as eating well and maintaining a moderate level of regular physical activity. 

That can be presented through a series of games and activities that advocated eating well as part of a balanced lifestyle.

 “Prevention is better than a cure.” 

Louis Pasteur

 

G-Souto

24.10.2022

update 21.10.2025

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October in Review & World Science Day For Peace and Development !

World Science Day For peace and Development

https://www.un.org/

Celebrated every 10 November, World Science Day for Peace and Development highlights the important role of science in society and the need to engage the wider public in debates on emerging scientific issues. It also underlines the importance and relevance of science in our daily lives.

• Theme 2019: "Open Science Leaving No One Behind!

In 2019, the theme is Open Science. Open Science is not only an issue of science being open to the research  community, as in “open access” and “open data”, but refers to a science open to society.  

credits: Elyx Yak

@UN

In spite of the progress made in recent years, we are still witnessing great disparities across and within different regions and different countries when it comes to accessing science, technology and innovation (STI) and enjoying their benefits. To address these disparities and close the existing STI gaps, Open Science is an important step in the right direction. 

Let us embrace open science as a tool for making science more accessible, scientific process more inclusive and the outputs of science more readily available for all!

And now, time to the review of the most popular posts of October:

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

Music Day : the value of music in public education ! Resources

Georges Simenon novels !

Pop-rock music : Beatles' Abbey Road 50th anniversary : resources 

Let's talk about Pink October ! 

Schools : Intl Day for the Eradication of Poverty : #EndPoverty !

Hoping you're enjoying to teach! Now, tests time! But remember a student is much more than a test!

G-Souto

10.11.2019

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Schools : Let's talk about Pink October !

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And here I am! Pink October is my awareness month. In memory of my mother.

Let me introduce this subject. Seeing pink? October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

I started Pink October in school curriculum long time ago. And I wrote about on Going Pink at School (October 2013). On my blogs to students too: Octobre rose: On participe au collège et lycée? (French foreign language) and Escolas : Outubro Rosa: Vamos participar? (Portuguese native language).

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Education: 

So here I am writing some words and share some resources on Going Pink in School Education.

Talking about cancer helps students and teachers to be conscious and to understand and follow friends and family.

But let remind you the leading cause of death for children under the age of 15.

In developing countries, over 100,000 children die each year due to poor diagnoses and lack of access to basic treatment options. If given the generic drugs and simple medical procedures so desperately needed it is estimated that more than half of them could be saved. Instead, survival rates stand at 20 percent.

Unfortunately, as teachers, we know some children and teens who have or had cancer or often coexisted with the desease from a mother, a sister, a grandmother or a friend suffering cancer.

Schools must holding special programmes to tell students about how survival rates increases through early detection.

I think it would be important to include cancer awareness into school curriculum, not only in sciences curriculum.

I know several schools that involve young students to raise awareness about this disease.

“Education helps students and teachers not only protect their families, but also their own lives,” 

Resources: Films

• The Fault in Our Stars (book & film):

The Fault In Our Starts

Josh Boone, 2014

https://www.imdb.com/

Based on the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, the film tells the story of two young people cancer patients - August and Hazel - begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green, 2012

https://www.johngreenbooks.com/

Synopsis:

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

The Fault in Our Stars debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and was chosen as TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012.

The Fault In Our Starts

Josh Boone, 2014

https://www.imdb.com/.

Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort) are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey.

Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.

The Fault in Our Stars explores the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love.

"A lot of us feel on a daily basis, but we just don’t acknowledge our feelings,” (...) "This movie won’t let you leave without acknowledging your feelings."

Shailene Woodley, Time

Target: High Junior School

• Miss You Already:

Miss You Already

Catherine Hardwicke, 2015

https://www.imdb.com/

The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

Synopsis:

Milly (Toni Colette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore) are besties since girlhood, ever since the latter relocated to London from the US with her family. The pair’s sustained friendship has evidently rested on mutual acceptance of their roles: adventurous Milly led the way, with generous support from Jess. 

Miss You Already

Catherine Hardwicke, 2015

https://www.imdb.com/

Milly was the first to experience romance and sex, the first to conceive and marry  and the one who sadly experiences other firsts, when a series of diagnoses confirm an increasingly bleak prognosis for her breast cancer.

Based on Goodbye by Morwenna Banks. On 19 October 2013, BBC Radio 4 broadcast Banks' play Goodbye about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer. 

She subsequently wrote the play's 2015 film adaptation, titled Miss You Already.

It's unsweetened depiction of cancer. In fact the film is probably the most honest depiction of the disease I can remember seeing in a movie. Superbly understated and fabulously real.

Target: High School; Higher School

Some Activities:

• Walk Pink

Host a pink walkathon at the Park of your city. Invite other schools to join you:

• Wear Pink

To aid efforts, in Arts curriculum students can designed T-shirts for the cause, ribbons, badges and wear Pink one day or two of the month. Take a picture wearing Pink item every day

• Do Pink ribbon

Students are asked to do pink ribbons and wear them to show their solidarity in school, on the street, at home;

• Sport for Pink

Create sport activities for boys and girls in school gymnasium or playground. Four younger, think in a score;

• Protect your Mom/Grandmother

Students will be titled PYM brand ambassadors who will educate their mothers, grandmothers, and other family to take self exams;

• Pink Bazaar

Set up a charity bazaar in the school for a week and ask for parents and grandparents help;

• Collect scarves

Teachers and parents will be collecting scarves to be sent to patients who have lost their hair due to chemotherapy. 

The scarves will be sent to Breast Cancer organization in your own city or country that will forward it to girls and women patients.

• Write Pink 

Ask students to write kind pink cards or pink letters to send to young Cancer patients;

• Pink Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

On the school social media accounts exchange messages or talks with children and teens who are in hospitals but stay active interacting with social media;

G-Souto

22.10.2019

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