WPEA 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...
read moreMayerson Academy’s Orton-Gillingham Program Graduates Achieve Results
At Mayerson Academy, we offer learning services to change-agent educators, helping them to feel empowered and confident in their expanded capacities. There is no greater joy than when we receive feedback from them about how their engagement with their learning is...
read more3 Ideas on Happiness and Well-Being from Around the World
Goldie Hawn, Jeffrey Sachs and Matthieu Ricard agreed when they spoke on happiness and well-being. At the invitation of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Ruler of Dubai and Her...
read moreAn Evening With Lea Waters: Raising Strong Children Recap
On January 11th, Mayerson Academy, Beech Acres Parenting Center and Children, Inc. welcomed author Lea Waters to Cincinnati as part of the Raising Positive Children: Global Author Series. Dr. Waters is an Australian psychologist, academic, researcher, author, and...
read moreMayerson Academy’s Online Orton-Gillingham Course and App Receive Accolades at the DyslexiaCon17
Mayerson Academy’s booth at DyslexiaCon17, the International Dyslexia Association’s Reading, Literacy, and Learning Conference was crowded with educators wanting to learn more about their Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Reading course – the only totally online course...
read moreRaising Positive Children: Global Author Series
Buy Tickets Today! Today, perhaps more than ever, we benefit from hearing messages of hope—messages that focus on strengths, confidence, mindfulness, and resilience. In partnership with Beech Acres Parenting Center and Children, Inc., we are presenting and bringing...
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