Ideas and Provocations From MA Staff
What you taught us about making real change stick
In my last article, I asked what you’ve found that helps real change "stick" when transforming traditional education into positive education. And, boy, did you answer! The conversation started on LinkedIn but continued at the inaugural World Positive Education...
read moreImpacting Futures Through The Legacy Project
One of the most important lessons I learned from my teaching career is that “pathways of opportunity” – formative experiences and challenges that foster students’ growth, deepen their passions, and open doors to important networks and future prospects – are critical...
read moreCreating a Foundation for a Positive Culture of Thinking in Schools
Mayerson Academy is pleased to announce it has received a grant from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation to expand our success with Thriving Learning Communities (TLC) through a partnership with High Schools That Work (HSTW)/Making Middle Grades Work (MMGW). This ...
read moreWPEA Day Three Recap: What We’ve Learned
Day Three at the International Positive Education Network's (IPEN) Festival of Positive Education was focused on the Design phase of the Appreciative Inquiry Process: Co-creating the future, rapid prototyping and, ultimately, building a legacy so that future...
read moreWPEA Day Two Recap: What We’ve Learned
Day Two at the International Positive Education Network's (IPEN) Festival of Positive Education was focused on the Discovery and Dream phases of the Appreciative Inquiry Process. Appreciative Inquiry (AI), as defined by David Cooperrider, “represents a paradigm shift...
read moreWPEA Day One Recap: What We’ve Learned
Day One at the International Positive Education Network's (IPEN) Festival of Positive Education was a success. We heard from educators from all over the world who reaffirmed our focus on strengths-based learning and encouraged our thinking for the future. Here are a...
read moreIgniting Engagement Among Teams and Classrooms in Hong Kong
From New Zealand to Canada, our Mayerson Academy team has been fortunate to work with extraordinary educators around the world. Last week, we had the tremendous privilege of working with education leaders at Discovery College (DC) in Hong Kong. DC is a private...
read moreLearning from Global Experts About How to Raise Positive Children
I don’t have children of my own; however, I am constantly around them. I enjoy observing how children are little people with the same wide range of emotions, temperaments, and behaviors as adults. I’ve also learned how challenging raising kids can be. Raising strong,...
read moreThe Strength to Change Systems
Does a glowing sunset stop you in your tracks? Do you lose track of time when strolling through an art museum? If so, appreciation of beauty and excellence (ABE) might be one of your signature character strengths. ABE speaks to our capacity to relish the best of what...
read moreThe NEW “Higher Order” Skills Gap
Reducing the actions of today’s successful professionals (doctors, lawyers, consultants, etc.) to their basic structures, we see a similar pattern of sophisticated skills to gather and analyze data, interpret data for meaning, and create and implement a plan to act....
read moreLeadership is Like Herding Tigers
You may be familiar with the phrase “herding cats” – a term used to describe attempts to corral unwieldy folks or processes. In a slight twist, author, speaker, advisor and self-described “arms dealer for the creative revolution”, Todd Henry likens the effort of...
read moreIf You Can Be Replaced …
“If in your role as _____________, you can be replaced by artificial intelligence, you should be.” I heard this sentence a couple of months ago and the blank was filled in with “teacher.” Since this time, in conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) from Dubai...
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