Concentration: I barely know what this word means anymore. Some days, I really feel like you’d be hard-pressed to find someone more distracted than me. Case in point: not too long ago, I couldn’t find my phone. I looked and …
One of the latest educational buzzwords floating about is ‘grit’. Angela Lee Duckworth made this term popular among educators in her widespread TED talk. In her talk, she defines grit in the following way, Grit is the passion and perseverance …
The numbers are staggering: in a survey of 15,000 students, one of every three reported that they had experienced occasional or frequent bullying (Nansel & others, 2001). But what constitutes bullying in 2016 and why does it happen? By definition, …
What is STEM? The letters stand for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and it is an acronym used to represent all of these fields interrelated together. There is an increasing number of jobs that incorporate all of these skills and …
According to author and mindfulness guru Eckhart Tolle, “fear is almost always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.”* “Mindfulness” always sounds great on paper, but it’s never quite as easy to put into practice. …
The school year has just begun! Children that are in elementary school often need guidance about how to be a good student and help in developing effective habits that they can carry with them into junior high, high school, and …