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Remember, School is More Than Grades
It often looks like a classic case of not seeing the forest for the trees. School curricula typically favor teaching kids ‘applied knowledge.’ This is the type of knowledge that can easily be tested and graded. But this tunnel approach often backfires later when graduates enter the w ...
Real Ways City Leaders Can Foster Happiness and Well-being
City leaders feel a special responsibility to nurture their communities, so times like these are especially hard. Constituents tend to look to elected official ...
Social-Emotional Learning Reduces School Violence
The US has averaged a school shooting every month of every school year for the past 20+ years (see list). We’ll soon be starting on our second generation of st ...
After a Texas School Shooting, Conservatives Blamed ‘Woke’ Programs Once Approved by Republicans
In 2018, GOP politicians promoted social and emotional education as a tool to stop mass shootings. Now some conservative activists are arguing those programs a ...
Summer Reading to Help Sharpen Your Emotional Intelligence Skills
Summer’s extended daytime hours offer a welcome respite for parents – offering them time to pause and refuel their brain cells with a good book, a hammock ...
Jay Levin Interview with In Your Mind
Emotional Intelligence is completely learnable. It's a mindset. It can be transformed. Find this podcast on Audible or wherever you get your podcast. ...
Social and Emotional Learning Skills Offer Stress Relief for LGBTQ+ Youth
By Patricia Kutza During the month of June, as they have done for over fifty years, LGBTQ+ youth and their allies around the world will join pride marches, ...
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- Remember, School is More Than Grades August 5, 2022 Matthew Spaur
- Real Ways City Leaders Can Foster Happiness and Well-being July 29, 2022 Matthew Spaur
- Social-Emotional Learning Reduces School Violence July 29, 2022 Matthew Spaur