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Family Matters: Do Obligations Encourage Teens to Play it Safe?
The teenage years have long been described as a period of “storm and stress.” It’s…
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Mindfulness in the Classroom: What’s All the Buzz About?
“Mindfulness” is a buzzword popping up everywhere from the New York Times, prestigious science and…
How to Recognize PTSD in the Classroom… And Why it...
I recently watched a Ted Talk1 by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris where she addressed the effects…
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Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master...
Do your schools and learning communities promote curiosity, innovation, collaboration, empathy, determination, and analytic thinking?…
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The Difference Between Science and Science-Sounding Solutions
From the moment a child is born (and in some cases even before), their environment…
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Starting Early: The Benefits of Teaching Counterintuitive Concepts in Childhood
Science seems to always challenge our intuitive understanding of the world. Even as an adult,…
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The Lollipop Problem: How Cultural Bias Makes it Harder to...
I went to a school in the foothills of the Himalayas in Pakistan. The school…
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Language Nutrition & the Developing Brain
We’re told that a picture is worth a thousand words, but this adage robs words…
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