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Resilience: The Capacity to Rebuild and Grow from Adversity | Psychology Today
Resilience is not a genetic trait. It is derived from the ways children learn to think and act when they are faced with obstacles, large and small. How do teachers cultivate resilience in the classroom?
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Education World: Improve Students' Self-Concept
These activities help students feel great about who they are.
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It's Time to Listen: Launching an Emotion Revolution in Our Nation's High Schools - Independent Ideas Blog
The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is a nonprofit membership association that provides services to more than 1,800 schools and associations of schools in the United States and abroad, including more than 1,500 independent private K-12
Health & Fitness | Tweens & Teens
Let It Be: Using Mindfulness to Overcome Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety tells you everything you feel is serious. Depression paints everything in black and white. Together, they skew perceptions. Mindfulness can help.
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Imagine you're 9, have a smartphone, and see your friend's pics from a party you weren't invited to.
Know a teen or tween? Pass this along to their parents — you never know how it could help.
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Students Share What They Wish Their Teacher Knew
Third grade teacher Kyle Schwartz wanted to better understand her students' lives, so she asked them directly. In her Doull Elementary class in Denver, CO, she had students write down what they wish Schwartz knew, and they openly shared pieces of the...
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Best, Brightest — and Saddest? - NYTimes.com
In a California community synonymous with overachievement, heartache has led to urgent, necessary soul searching.
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Parenting an Adolescent: 11 Insights That Will Make a Difference - Hey Sigmund - Karen Young
Parenting an adolescent can be a brilliant, trying, beautiful, confusing, crazy adventure, but here are some tips that will make the difference.
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Productivity and Kids: What Do Parents Need to Know? | The Creativity Post
There are many reasons why kids choose not to do things—including tasks that relate to schoolwork, chores, other responsibilities, and even creative endeavors. How can parents move children from I WON’T to I WILL?
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Teaching Mindfulness to Teens: 5 Ways to Get "Buy-In" - Left Brain Buddha
How can we teach mindfulness to teens? How do we convince them to disconnect and spend time in stillness in their busy, connected lives?
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7 tips for raising an independent tween - Canadian Living
The tween years are a time of push and pull. Here’s how to help maintain a strong relationship with your child while still supporting her developing autonomy.
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Reframing Success: Helping Children & Teens Grow from the Inside Out by @DrPriceMitchell
Reframing Success: This free eBook by Marilyn Price-Mitchell, Ph.D. challenges readers to reframe notions of achievement and success, asking how we best develop internal strengths in children.
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Negativity & Your Child's Brain: How To Help Kids Stay Positive
by Marilyn Price-Mitchell PhD. Negativity affects a child's development, producing harmful chemicals in the brain. Foster positivity, not negativity.
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Laughter and Learning: Humor Boosts Retention | Edutopia
Humor activates the brain's dopamine reward system, stimulating goal-oriented motivation and long-term memory, which means that humor can improve retention in students of all ages.
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8 Pathways to Every Student's Success | Edutopia
Welcome to our blog series on how to apply the principles of positive youth development: curiosity, sociability, resilience, self-awareness, integrity, resourcefulness, creativity, and empathy.
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The Science (and Practice) of Creativity | Edutopia
When schools nurture student creativity, they foster inquisitiveness, persistence, imagination, discipline, and collaboration, leading to improved classroom behavior, motivation, attendance, and academic attainment.
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Teaching Mindfulness to Teenagers: 5 Ways to Get Started | Sarah Rudell Beach
If we want students to take mindfulness seriously, they need to see it in action. They need to see us paying attention and handling challenges skillfully. Those millennial Holden Caulfields can spot a phony a mile away....
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10 Things Parents of High School Juniors Should Start Doing Now | Smart Parents
Each year, as winter fades into spring, I watch parents shift into overdrive. Parents, with every good intention, start obsessing about their children's (lack of) college planning, and tend to jump in--making lists, planning summer visits and perfect...
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Parent Involvement in Schools Matters: A Teacher's Perspective | Smart Parents
In the 11th and 12th grade, I had a student whose mother was in jail. He did not have much of a relationship with her. She had been incarcerated on and off for most of his life. One Friday afternoon, he told me she was going to be released. He had a ...
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7 Fun Ways To Teach Your Kids Mindfulness
I taught a mindfulness class at my daughters’ elementary school this week. Unsurprisingly, the kids taught me way more than I taught them. While I was doing research to develop the class, I came
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Mindful Studying {a.k.a., how to learn without losing your mind!} - Left Brain Buddha
Whether you are learning mitosis, marketing, or metal-jewelry making, read on for tips to make your learning stick! (*if you're the parent of a teen, you may want to share this with them :) )
