What Believing in the Possibilities Can Do For Learning and Teaching
This article explores the placebo research; focusing on using the mind and beliefs to power up the brain and body to be better learners in the future. 8 Ways to Raise Kids With Grit
This article explores how becoming overly involved in our kids' lives and by attempting to remove all and any obstacles in their way, we may inadvertently be forgetting to teach our kids lessons about how to develop grit, resilience, and how to be self- sufficient. |
10 phrases you hear in resilient families: are you using them?
Michael Grose explains how children and adults in resilient families tune into each other's needs, choosing situation-specific language, rather than simply regurgitating generalised ‘feel good’ or ‘get on with it’ platitudes. All children should receive weekly 'happiness' lessons from the age of five
"Our schools need to adopt children's wellbeing as one of their major objectives – both in their ethos and their teaching. Life skills can and should be taught as professionally as mathematics or literature," |
Are you Raising Nice Kids?
Weissbourd and his cohorts have come up with recommendations about how to raise children to become caring, respectful and responsible adults. How Educators Can Assist Learners in Developing a Growth Mindset.
This post delves a little deeper, exploring ideas for how educators can assist their learners in developing a growth mindset. Why Teaching Kindness in Schools Is Essential to Reduce Bullying
Patty O'Grady, PhD, an expert in neuroscience, emotional learning, and positive psychology, specializes in education. She reports: "Kindness changes the brain by the experience of kindness. Children and adolescents do not learn kindness by only thinking about it and talking about it. Kindness is best learned by feeling it so that they can reproduce it." To Teach Facts, Start With Feelings
This article explores how the human brain loves story -- logic and emotion tied together to bring meaning to a set of ideas. |
How Mindfulness Could Benefit Your teaching Practice.
Studies of mindfulness practice show that when kids focus on what they are feeling at a given moment in time they increase the functioning of the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls executive functioning and self-regulation. Exploring the Idea of ‘Happiness’ As Part of School Work
Explores how to be happy and how to take control over your happiness at school. Does Your Classroom Cultivate Student Resilience?
Resilience is essential for human thriving, and an ability necessary for the development of healthy, adaptable young people. It's what enables children to emerge from challenging experiences with a positive sense of themselves and their futures. How Empathy Affects Learning, And How To Cultivate It In Your Students
Explores how brains have evolved in a way that enables us to recognise and understand the emotions and intentions of others not just by thinking but actually feeling. Gratitude Can Fuel School Transformation
Exploring how to incorporate a range of practices that allows ourselves and others to express gratitude, so we might transform our schools. |
Building A Positive School Culture
Exploring how Christian Fenger High School needed to and did change their school culture by involving all stakeholders. 8 SIMPLE STEPS TO A MORE BLISSFUL LIFE
Gratitude is what makes everything you already have more than enough to keep you happy. |
How To Teach Mindfulness.
Resources to help introduce mindfulness to young people at school (and at home) and to help them develop some essential life skills. 5 Steps to Managing Big Emotions
Printable poster that can be used in the classroom connected to calming down and dealing with emotions. |
The Two Mindsets and the Power of Believing That You Can Improve.
Carol Dweck studies human motivation. She spends her days diving into why people succeed (or don’t) and what’s within our control to foster success.
Carol Dweck studies human motivation. She spends her days diving into why people succeed (or don’t) and what’s within our control to foster success.
Books worth a read
The following links are different apps teachers are using in their classrooms to promote well-being.