Education 2.0 & 3.0

By Joan Wasser Gish

BY:
Gianna Cacciatore

Friendships can be a powerful tool for learning. But when kids are apart during distance learning, some creativity and effort go a long way.

Teaching young students to tune in to facial expressions—even when partially obscured by a mask—can support the development of emotional literacy skills.

Too often our attention in relationships is caught up in anger, disappointment, regret, or pushing for something to change.

Just released! A new online version of our popular Relationship Mapping Strategy . Use it for your school, community organization, or religious group to help ensure everyone has a strong connection to someone else during these challenging times. There may be nothing more important in a child’

By Katy Farber

BY THOMAS ARNETT

BY MATTHEW LYNCH

"The biggest paradigm shift in my teaching career was the day I found out one of my students was homeless. Robert was talkative, academically average, fooled around a little too much. Some weeks he turned in good work, and other times he didn’t. Among the 134 students that filled my rosters in my third year of teaching, he was a pretty typical seventh grade kid. But in March of that year, Robert was getting on my nerves: not turning in some of his work, talking out in class more than usual. I responded as I often did, with reprimands and lunch detention and generally feeling disappointed in him.

"Then one afternoon, our guidance counselor mentioned in passing that Robert’s family was homeless....

"At that moment, I realized I didn’t really know my students at all.

"Building solid relationships with your students is arguably the most important thing you can do to be an effective teacher. It helps you build trust so students take academic risks, allows you to better differentiate for individual needs, and prevents the kinds of power struggles often found in poorly managed classrooms....

"You’ll get to know your students faster and more thoroughly if you have a system in place, a way to make sure you give sufficient attention to every child and store the information you gather for easy access later. In my years teaching at the middle school and college level, I developed a 4-part system that worked beautifully for me, and I think it will work for you as well."

Insights from our Community Conversations Science tells us that responsive relationships—like those with serve and return interactions—between children and adults, adults and other adults, and children and other children help buffer us against the effects of ongoing stress. These relationships act as a core building block for resilience and help us navigate life’s ups and […]

By Nora Fleming

Even before COVID-19, I was often asked, “How can I effectively lead my team when we all work remotely?”

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Every year at about this time I get a handful of requests for ideas for icebreaker activities. In fact, I found of one of those request

: Kevin F. McGrath,

By Barbara Blackburn