Don't worry about increasing your child's intelligence--there's very little you can do to make a difference. Instead, focus on building your child's self-control.
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"Jack tells me that lots of kids are doing way worse things, but you ignore them and pick on him."
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One of my favorite mantras: "Accept what's messed up and change how you are looking at it!" 
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Listen as an educator to the story the parent is telling. Yes, parents can be over the top with their advocacy. What are the reasons for that? Delete the scoop?
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Oh, I am so happy to see this. I think about how traditional assessment "tricks" many kids who actually understand the content. The truth should not be disguised by a faulty assessment system.
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Performing “random acts of kindness" makes pre-teen children more popular with their peer group, researchers discover.
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Great way to combat bullying: Teach the kids to be KIND!
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Some great links for teachers who are new to haveing kids with IEPs in classe.
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Circa 1996. This is my Teensy; my youngest; my Madeline. A toddler, smiling, while her extended family clapped at her … Continue reading »
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A little ditty about the introvert/extrovert issue as it relates to the classroom.
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Dr. Michele Borba share her secrets for discipline problems, behavior troubles, school issues and much more! Parenting advice, tips, and articles for raising happy, healthy children from conception to graduation.
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Really important stuff.
Remember: Telling isn't teaching. Ever.
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Much has been said about the iPad being a revolutionary device for education. There are even education conferences that are dedicated to its use.
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Gallup measures daily emotions in more than 150 countries and areas by asking residents whether they experienced five positive and five negative emotions a lot the previous day. Negative experiences include anger, stress, sadness, physical pain, and worry. Positive emotions include feeling well-rested, being treated with respect, enjoyment, smiling and laughing a lot, and learning or doing something interesting.
To measure the presence or absence of emotions, Gallup averaged together the percentage of residents in each country who said they experienced each of the 10 positive and negative emotions.
Negative emotions are highest in the Middle East and North Africa, with Iraq, Bahrain, and the Palestinian Territories leading the world in negative daily experiences. Latin America leads the world when it comes to positive emotions, with Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela at the top of that list.
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Learning styles—the notion that each student has a particular mode by which he or she learns best, whether it’s visual, auditory or some other sense—is enormously popular. It’s also been thoroughly debunked.
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Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how hum...
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Eric Hoover has an interesting piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education exploring “noncognitive skills,” the subject of Paul Tough’s popular book How Children Succeed and education’s topic du jour.
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" Logical reasoning skills and factual knowledge are only so valuable on their own. Students also need an ‘emotional rudder’—an ability to transfer skills and knowledge to real-world situations—to succeed"
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I love that idea of an “emotional rudder,” guiding us as we apply our intellectual knowledge and skills.
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Being an introvert is not a bad thing. Recently there is a wave of writing discussing how schools are failing to meet the needs of introverts by creating classrooms that demand that students becom...
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"Today, if I were to lose the devices (iPads) that that my students have I would mourn the loss not of the technology but of the voices that my students have gained through having them."
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SANDY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Get your kids off the couch, away from the video games and exercising.
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Teaching kids about the importance of regular excercise is important for life.
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This groundbreaking study uses the largest database of information on special education spending and staffing ever assembled to uncover significant variance in how districts staff for special education.
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Wow. A downloadable from Fordham with solid recommendations for policy.
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Do you know the actual theories of learning? A learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn, helping us understand this inherently complex process.
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This helpful infographic does a solid job of breaking down the basics of learning theories in a visual and understandable format.
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This helpful infographic does a solid job of breaking down the basics of learning theories in a visual and understandable format.
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Using Mindfulness to Train Attention
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Good question, and the answer is that using mindfulness to train attention can enhance your experience across the board.
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Being in the moment.........
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Students and kids with learning disabilities have also the right to benefit from this surge in the use of educational apps on mobile devices particularly iPad. There are actually several iPad apps...
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Rahman recently released his book Getting Started: iPads for Special Needs. Rahman shared some of his insights for preparing an iPad for people with disabilities. Most of the tricks are tailored for parents or educators working with children.
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