Be Worthy of Imitation: Why Modeling Matters at Home and in Class

We have dreams and hopes for our children that often extend beyond mimicry of our own lives. We hope they ...
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Happiness in the Classroom

We all want our children to be happy, and while this is traditionally thought of as an at-home concern, we ...
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A Case for Deferring Electronic Media in the Classroom

A three-year-old talks to grandma on Skype. A seven-year-old reads a fairy-tale with Dad on a Kindle.  A child with spatial-awareness issues plays ...
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Teach Children to Seek Significance over Success

Abraham Maslow believed that one of our most essential needs is to feel loved and needed by those around us. ...
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Reframing Failure in The Classroom

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Ken Robinson We want our ...
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Responsible Innovation in Education

“Innovation in Education,” is an umbrella term that means different things to different researchers and educators. While there is no ...
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Crucial Creativity: The Case for Cultivating Divergent Thinking in Classrooms

“Divergent thinking” was a term coined by psychologist J.P. Guilford in 1967. Guilford was an early proponent of the idea ...
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The Educator as Artist

Art teachers get to have fun. They teach through play, spread joy, and get their students’ creative juices flowing. While ...
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Healing through Inner Work

We are emerging from a time in history when many of our daily life activities have been dictated by urgency ...
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