So often we bat about statistics. Are children learning? Does testing tell us what their future will hold? Are Teachers doing their jobs based on evaluations? Is poverty a problem and if it is, what do we do about it. Ultimately, the answer is in an adult [...]
Originally Published at Edutopia Cognizant of the veracity that each of us learns by various means and that at times, we may prefer to gain knowledge by wading through the weight of words we present the transcript. Daniel Goleman: What we’re calling today social and emotional learning [...]
Photo Credit: aastock | Shutterstock.com By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at AlterNet. | October 3, 2013 It's time for some new thinking about how to address the persistent inequalities that plague our education system. As the evidence mounts discrediting much of the movement for [...]
By Scott Huebner | Originally Published at The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Volume 39, Issue 2 October 2010 With the increased emphasis on measuring school success primarily through academic outcomes, some might argue that school professionals cannot afford to pay much attention to students’ well-being, [...]
A mother and child are greeted by Jillian Maes, part of Stanford's team of researchers led by Professor Anne Fernald. | L.A. Cicero By Bjorn Carey | Originally Published at Stanford News. September 25, 2013 Research by Stanford psychologists reveals that 2-year-old children of lower-income families may [...]
Is Teacher enough to turn the tide to take misery and twirl it into happiness? Might the affect of a good teacher-student relationship in a classroom be enough to change a life? Could it be that an Educator is but one influence amongst many? And does each [...]
Emotional Intelligence is EmpathyEducates' call. In our own lives, we have come to appreciate the lessons, which today would be characterized as Social-Emotional Learning. Having always felt as though we were the hare in the illustrious fable The Tortoise and the Hare we see the splendor of [...]
Human mental bandwidth is finite. You’ve probably experienced this before (though maybe not in those terms): When you’re lost in concentration trying to solve a problem like a broken computer, you’re more likely to neglect other tasks, things like remembering to take the dog for a walk, [...]
We each want the best for our child. We want our young to attend good schools. Confronted with countless "choices" what do we choose? Is it possible for any parent to make a bad decision? [If you are as we, we believe all is good.] Perhaps there [...]
