How You Can Support The New Kid In Your Class
Navigating new hallways, making friends, & finding ‘their place’ is challenging for ‘the new kid.’ Here are some ways to support them.
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How To Reach–And Change–Your Students
Assuming our goal is to make a difference in the lives of others, we might consider the legacy we leave in the minds of students.
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A Teacher Writes A Brutally Honest Letter To Parents & Politicians
In an Open Letter to Oklahoma Voters and Lawmakers, Oklahoma teacher Steven Wedel writes a plea to parents and politicians.
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Volunteering In My Wife’s Classroom Opened My Eyes
Volunteering In My Wife’s Classroom Opened My Eyes by Brent Wooten His wife is a longtime teacher, but commentator Bret Wooten says it was the time he spent volunteering in her classroom that opened his eyes to her world. The other day my 7-year-old daughter Joslyn triggered a memory when she asked me: “Why…
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A Research-Based, School-Driven Model To Prevent Teen Pregnancy
The HBM focuses on effective ways to influence student perception re: sex ed & increases their odds of making positive sexual health choices.
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7 Teachers Explain How Students Show Kindness In The Classroom
It may be uncomfortable for some in the beginning, but kindness lead to happier kids, adults and school culture that focuses on learning.
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Why Emotion Is More Important Than Understanding
The need to belong, the desire to be understood, and the instinct to understand are universal human emotions that mean everything.
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What To Tell Students You’ll Never See Again
Teaching binds teacher and student together even if that binding isn’t made in mutual affection. To teach and learn is to come together.
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There’s Value In A Non-Traditional Path To College
There’s Value In A Non-Traditional Path To College by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Teacher & Holder of Student Loan Debt It’s that time of year again–college time. You go to the mailbox. It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for your whole life. The one that parents and teachers tell you will determine the course of your very…
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What Does College Ready Really Mean, Anyway?
What Does “College Ready” Really Mean, Anyway? by Terry Heick Yesterday, I was talking to my 14 year old daughter yesterday about the kinds of skills that translate to academic success. I also actually used the sterile phrase “academic success.” This was an important distinction, as she’s home-schooled (another term I dislike) and learns through…
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This School Is Designed To Let Kids Be Kids
Meet the world’s cutest kindergarten, designed by Takaharu Tezuka. In this talk, he walks us through a design process that lets kids be kids.
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The Physiology Of Bullying
Acetaminophen Reduces Social Pain? The Physiology Of Bullying by David Palank, Principal at San Miguel School in Washington D.C. Study Abstract Summary Pain, whether caused by physical injury or social rejection, is an inevitable part of life. These two types of pain-physical and social-may rely on some of the same behavioral and neural mechanisms that register pain-related affect….
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Preventing Youth Suicide Through Lessons Of Hope
Schools for Hope is a free curriculum designed to prevent youth suicide by sharing tools to find & maintain hope.
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9 Ways To Prevent Cyberbullying
While it will be impossible to prevent it altogether, there are ways to prevent cyberbullying–and strategies to respond when it does.
