Having worked in and with the educational world for many decades now, I know just how tirelessly committed to their students teachers are – and how much stress they take on. After our Summer Intensives, more than a few would comment on how much they needed the...
Survival is more than just avoiding bad outcomes. It’s also doing what you can to thrive amidst adversity. Sometimes that can require some extra creativity – something this pandemic year has asked of us all. So we’ve brainstormed a list of “survival” activities...
Whether you observe Thanksgiving or not, it’s instructive to note that the modern national holiday was born in a time even more divisive, contentious, and uncertain than our own – and that it came to be in no small part thanks to the efforts of a woman named...
One thing that saddened me during my years as a school counselor was how many students carried around negative stories about the world. They believed the world was full of bad guys; that people were out to get them. They also felt bad about themselves. Often, they...
I was teaching in a 6th grade classroom one day when I was struck by the way some students were talking about what a dangerous world we live in, with “bad” people lurking everywhere in it. “How many bad people do you know?” I asked. “Oh, not many, really. But there...
