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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 […]
Accredited Online Orton-Gillingham Training Generates Interest at DyslexiaCon: Case Study Highlights Effectiveness
by Sonia Milrod
Participants crowded the Mayerson Academy booth at the International Dyslexia Conference, in Orlando, in November, as conference attendees stopped by for information about the opportunity to become certified in Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Structured Language through Mayerson […]
A Time For Thanks
by Karen Graves
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 […]
Grateful and Pushing for Change
“You live in a world of rainbows and unicorns” my father has said to me on more than one occasion, commenting on my never-ending drive to make the world that currently exists match the idyllic […]
5 Simple Tools that Help Students #choosekindness
It takes all of us working together every day to create a country that is hopeful, inclusive and big-hearted. Educators know they play a uniquely catalytic role in the lives of learners. Children learn who they […]
Choose an Attitude of Gratitude
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, November is the perfect time to celebrate the character strength of Gratitude. Join us as we take the month of November to focus on Gratitude. VIA defines Gratitude this […]
There Are No Silver Bullets: 3 Levers for SEL Success
Myths are common in education. The most persistent is the silver-bullet myth. You know, the one that goes something like, “If we just do _____, we will fix education.” No matter what fills in the […]
Creativity as a Catalyst for Change
by Joe Moorman
My dad began his music career at the age of 8 when he got his first guitar for Christmas and practiced “Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley” until his fingernails bled. Over the years he […]
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