In a recent Education Week blog “Embedding SEL Across the Curriculum,” Tom VanderArk and Mary Ryerse offer examples of schools working to embed social and emotional learning deeply within the curriculum. Character is caught as […]
Today is International Day of Happiness. In American society, happiness is considered a sport—something elusive to be pursued—something to strive for and attain at some future point in time. But is that really happiness? Today might […]
The new Orton-Gillingham online practicum from Mayerson Academy has attracted participants from all over the United States, and even one from Bogata, Columbia! Word-of-mouth testimonials about the quality of the program and the success of […]
New Zealand held its first-ever Positive Education conference this past week and what an extraordinary event it was! Nearly 300 educators traveled from as far as the US and Singapore to hear global leaders in […]
Join us for this informative 20-minute session highlighting Thriving Learning Communities, an engaging, schoolwide program designed to build social and emotional learning skills through the lens of character strengths. Hear from current principals on the […]
An advisor to one of my projects recently said to me: “We know what impact strengths have on an individual, in family settings, in schools, and organizations… but what we don’t know is what that […]
I recently had the opportunity to visit an extraordinary school for boys in San Francisco. The school is special for many reasons, but I will stick to just two here. First of all, with the […]
Mayerson Academy offers schools, districts and organizations a full range of products that support our Thriving Learning Communities work. One very popular item is our Character Strengths Chart – an easy to read and navigate graphic display of the […]
Let’s start with something I’m sure we can all agree on – leadership is hard. While there are thousands of articles, books, models and approaches to leadership out there for us to consider, digest and […]
In a recent Getting Smart blog post, School Culture and Relationships Thrive with a 5:1 Positivity Ratio, Mary Ryerse teases out the premise that positive and productive cultures are built one relationship at a time. What distinguishes […]