Every spring, we give our homes a deep cleaning to get it ready for the coming year. Do you do the same to your mind? Decluttering your brain is just as important as organizing your home. Here are 10 tips for mental health spring cleaning.
12 Tips for Helping Students with Test Taking
Social-emotional learning (SEL) helps young people acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to identify and manage emotions.
Teacher burnout can have long-term physical and emotional repercussions, so it’s important to recognize the signs and symptoms of burnout to protect your mental and physical health. The expectations of American teachers are at an all-time high. They’re expected to adapt to a wide range of student learning styles, accommodate special needs students with IEPs […]
When researchers from the University of Scranton tracked 200 people who had made New Year’s resolutions, they found that close to 80 percent kept their pledges for one week—but just 19 percent managed to stick to them for a period of two years.
How to not run from anxiety but embrace it.
Helping Kids See the Good Side of Getting Things Wrong
Perhaps you are familiar with “coping strategies” or “coping skills,” but what exactly are they?
When kids and teens face new things, they often feel a mix of emotions.
According to the research on failure, students may need more than just grit to succeed.
From a brain perspective, it makes sense. Stress has been high these past couple of years.
It goes unnoticed by everyone except the student who was forever impacted. But on occasion, long after the teacher has retired, the grown-up student takes the opportunity to recount his story. This one just happened to be on a national radio show.
Now is the perfect time to spread some love and kindness to others. Spring is in the air! Kids – and adults – are eager to get outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. Nothing is more invigorating to get us moving than blue skies that are abundant with sunshine. Now is the perfect time to […]
A simple technique that takes just a few minutes can help an agitated student regain the state of mind needed for learning.
Early in my teaching career, I participated in a series of retreats led by the Center for Courage and Renewal, inspired by Palmer’s book The Courage to Teach. Palmer reminds us that our sense of self plays out in our work every day—and living with courage and integrity means finding balance and alignment between our […]
Here’s how to help them cope..
Do your students celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Three Kings Day? Maybe they celebrate St. Lucia Day. Chances are your class includes students who observe more than one of those events.
Behavior Interventions: Strategies for Educators, Counselors, and Parents
Empathy has always been a critical skill for leaders, but it is taking on a new level of meaning and priority. Far from a soft approach it can drive significant business results.
Kids who seem oppositional are often severely anxious.
Mental health professionals hope the attention leads to lasting change.
While swimming, camping, hiking, and going to the park are some of the best activities kids can do in the summertime, reading can also be included in the list of fun activities that can be done in June, July, and August.
Long gone are the days of taking IQ tests. Here’s why emotional intelligence is a better predictor of your child’s success.
A Reuters survey earlier this year of U.S. school districts serving more than 2.2 million students found that a majority reported multiple indicators of increased mental health stresses among students.
Traits your child needs to make their dreams a reality.
Whether your child is a high school senior or moving on from kindergarten or elementary, graduation is a major milestone. But celebrations may look different this year.
1 in 6 children meet the criteria for a mental health disorder. By adulthood that number will double.
An interview with Jenny Simmons.
To help students cope with grief you need two important tools: your heart and high quality resources.
Anyone is capable of exhibiting these six character traits, but sometimes character has to be developed.
School counselors are an integral element of the entire educational system. In addition to students, school counseling programs have a positive impact on several groups of people in the education system: students, parents, teachers, administrators and student services personnel.
Black students across the country are being robbed of the opportunity to see themselves in what they’re studying and experience the richness of Black history.
Ongoing exposure to neglect, abuse, homelessness or violence causes learning and behavior problems in children. Signs of trauma and tips for helping kids who’ve been traumatized.
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