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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 […]
TLC Evaluation Report: Thriving Learning Communities program in 54 middle schools in the United States
This week Mayerson Academy published evaluation findings for the Thriving Learning Communities (TLC) program from 54 middle schools in the United States. Through our partnerships with research and evaluation experts at Fairleigh Dickenson University and Miami […]
Love: It’s All Greek to Me
I love coming across foreign (to me, as in non-English) words used to describe things that the English language doesn’t have words for. The Japanese have a word for looking worse after a haircut, Age-otori. […]
Deer Park Community City Schools Highlighted in Getting Smart
In a recent Getting Smart blog post, Increase Social Awareness and Build Culture: Action Steps from Four Schools, Mary Ryerse profiles schools that have embraced social awareness as an integral component of social emotional learning – […]
Love is a Verb
The strength of the month for February is Love. This is what VIA says about Love, “If Love is your top strength you value close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and […]
Research Says, Change Begins Here
According to McKinsey & Company, Harvard Business Review, IBM, Connor Partners and Forbes, 70% of organizational change efforts fail. Whether it’s personal, organizational, or social, change is a complex and tricky endeavor. Coupled with the […]
Self Management Improvement Can Begin with Just 5 Minutes Each Day
In Improve Your Self-Management Strategies 5 Minutes a Day, Lynn Ochs, Senior Program Director for Mayerson Academy, shares three simple, concrete actions that can easily fit into the crazy tempo of a school leader’s day on the Getting […]
Know Thyself: Self Awareness is Important in Leadership
In the blog post “5 Reasons Self-Awareness Matters for Leaders,” Mary Ryerse of Getting Smart gives five solid reasons why self-awareness is important in leadership: Self-awareness is a core leadership competency Self-awareness makes way for […]
The Practice of Leadership: Defining Direction
Our Character Strength of the Month for January is Leadership. It is no coincidence that we selected this character strength as our theme at the same time we launched our 5 to Thrive School Culture Challenge. January is […]
Finding Five Minutes to Thrive
We are just two weeks into the new year but this is typically about the time when I find myself re-considering all those good intentions I had on New Year’s Day. No matter what I […]
The Five Minute Challenge
Mayerson Academy is issuing a challenge to education leaders to dedicate five minutes each day over the next month to engage in simple activities that will reframe their thinking and improve the culture in their […]
Two Secrets to Energize Your Culture in 2017
It might be a new house, new day, even a new Moleskine, but especially a New Year. Each presents the hope of creating new possibilities. Of course the opportunity to create new possibilities is with us […]
Learning to Lead Through Parenthood
The strength of the month for January is Leadership. According to VIA: “If Leadership is your top strength, you excel at encouraging a group to get things done and preserving harmony within the group by […]
Our Most Widely Read Blog Posts From 2016
In 2016 Mayerson Academy published more than 80 blog posts covering events, news, new product launches, life events and partnerships. We began highlighting character strengths – a new one each month – beginning in September with […]
Professional Learning – a Gift that Keeps on Giving
by Beth D'Amico
By the time this article is posted, the holiday season will be nearing an end. Gifts will have been opened, the shiny paper and bows tossed into the trash. Recipients of some gifts may be […]
Spirituality and Finding Your Personal Sense of Meaning
by Karen Graves
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 […]
Positive Education Summit: Bringing Together the Best in Positive Psychology and the Best in Education
We are very pleased to share that Stiller Family Foundation has awarded a $ 1 million gift to Champlain College’s David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry to plan and convene a national Positive Education Summit that […]
Creativity is Critical for Lifelong Development
In an online PBS Parents post, Grace Hwang Lynch writes about the developmental benefits of art that include motor skills; language development; decision making; visual learning; inventiveness; cultural awareness; and improved academic performance. We seem […]
Strengths with a Twist: Resilience in Haiti
by Karen Graves
In late October, 2016 I joined a team of Americans who flew to Haiti to build homes, hand out food, and sort donations and supplies through an organization, BeLikeBrit Foundation. Each afternoon and evening I […]
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