Superintendents and school board members are gathering this week from across the country at AASA’s national conference, Leading for Excellence. Shawn Achor, renowned positive psychology researcher, speaker, and author of The Happiness Advantage is keynoting. […]
This morning the Ohio Department of Education announced its list of recommended awardees for The Straight A Fund, an Ohio program aimed at helping schools launch creative new ideas for improving education. We are pleased […]
In a recent Getting Smart blog, Mary Ryerse and Carri Schneider wrote about How 2 Minutes of SEL Can Change the Tone for the Day. In observing the character strengths work at Carson K-8 school in […]
In May 2014 the World Health Organization’s “Health for the World’s Adolescents” report revealed that depression “is the predominant cause of illness and disability for both boys and girls aged 10 to 19 years” and […]
I have before me the daunting task of writing about spirituality. Sense of meaning. Finding purpose in something larger than ourselves. In my mind, kind of up there with creating world peace and reversing climate […]
Last month I wrote about my own experiences and lessons learned around trust, as well as the application of the trust equation in building strong and meaningful relationships. This month, I am sharing an approach […]
In a recent Psychology Today blog post, Mathew A. White, Ph.D. asks “Positive Education, What’s Next?” – and predicts three major themes in positive education for 2016: Positive educational change (moving beyond classroom delivery and into […]
We go to work for many reasons and for each of us the reason may be a little different. We might work to provide for ourselves and our families, to feel a sense of accomplishment, […]
Unlike our mammalian counterparts, humans are unique to suffering because we have language that gives voice to our many challenges. In fact, humans appear to be the only sentient beings on the planet that have […]
Stress. We have been hearing a lot about it in education lately. It seems to stem from a wide variety of sources for educators including unfunded mandates, curricular overhaul, standards and high-stakes achievement tests, finger-pointing […]