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Lunch and Learn Session May 9th in Cincinnati
On Tuesday, May 9th, school and district leaders will share their experience implementing the Thriving Learning Communities™ program at a “Lunch and Learn” session from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Deer Park Jr./Sr. High […]
Hope on the Rise!
by Lynn Ochs
Hope! A resounding theme at the most recent Learning and the Brain Conference: Positive, Resilient Minds: The Science of Promoting Student Grit, Gratitude, and School Success. Threaded throughout the keynotes of positive psychology experts such […]
Happy Children
Mayerson Academy’s Thriving Learning Communities program, along with other positive psychology efforts in education, was recently the subject of a Live Happy magazine article “Happy Schools Make Happy Children.” In a time when teachers and […]
Strengths Beyond School
We know learning for people of all ages is not confined to a traditional school environment. And we know the education of our youth is greatly impacted by the communities that they live in. What […]
Schools, Administrators, and Teachers: Taking Action to Transform School Culture
What a great start to the year! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 5 to Thrive Challenge we launched in January. We loved hearing comments from our friends who participated in Cincinnati, across […]
Hope for the Hopeless
For the month of April we are celebrating the character strength of hope. VIA describes hope this way; “If Hope is your top strength you expect the best in the future, and you work to […]
From Sit and Get to Empower and Go!
With new technology, new ways of organizing, and new system potential, placing students at the center of learning is finally a realistic possibility. But what about learning for the educators in our schools? Shouldn’t we also be […]
Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously
by Joe Moorman
I need humor to thrive. That may sound a little dramatic, but it’s a part of who I am (humor is my top character strength). When I think about my best relationships, work experiences, and […]
Deer Park Community City Schools: Embedding SEL Across the Curriculum
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 […]
Intentional Day of Happiness
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 […]
Mayerson Academy’s Orton-Gillingham Online Practicum Exceeds Enrollment Projections
by Sonia Milrod
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 […]
Positive Education: 3 Big Ideas from 7 Global Leaders
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 […]
Humor Me
The strength of the month for March is Humor. This is what VIA says about Humor, “If Humor is your top strength you like to laugh and tease. Bringing smiles to other people is important to you. You […]
Webinar: Build a Positive School Culture in Just a Few Minutes a Day
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 […]
Learning Leads the Way in Understanding Strengths-Based Community Building
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 […]
When Using Character Strengths, It’s All Well and Good
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 […]
Character Strengths: A Helpful Resource
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 […]
Combining Strengths to Get the Most Out of Your Leadership
by Joe Moorman
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 […]
Building a Positive and Productive School Culture, One Relationship at a Time
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 […]
A Day for Love, a Week of Kindness
by Karen Graves
As mentioned in a previous blog post, February is the month in which we at Mayerson highlight the strength of “love.” This strength is reflected in the valuing of close relationships with others, especially when […]
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