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Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?

Why I Refuse to Let Technology Control Me. You need not drastically minimize your time on social media and commit to spending time completely unplugged. The message is simple, be balanced, be mindful, be present, be here. 🙂

Schools as a Setting for Promoting Positive Mental Health

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

“Participation in school activities, engagement in the school process, and a sense of belonging are crucial elements in keeping young people on a positive life path.” (Bower, Carroll and Ashman, 2012, pg.10) This quote is included in Schools as a Setting for Promoting...

A Call to Action

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

“Leadership demands vision to see the path before us, the courage to take it and the strength to follow it.” – Dr. Jeff Turnbull, Past President, Canadian Medical Assn. Not just hope, not just words, but purposeful action. Action Stations Youth need to be provided...

What are the Answers?

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

If “it takes a village to raise a child” then what does it mean to be a village? What is the role of connection technologies in our educational community and family settings? How do we help change the context of our children’s lives? One size does not fit all. Take...

A School’s Guide to Success: The Seven Cs

For Teachers & Principals

Part I: Community Assessment Concentrating on Senior-Level Support Creating a Cohesive Team Collecting Data to Drive Health Efforts Carefully Crafting an Operating Plan Choosing Appropriate Interventions Creating Supportive Environments Consistently Evaluating...

Homework We Should Set

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

We should assign: One hour extra sleep 20 minutes outside cardio Small screens off after dinner Hang with friends f2f Join a team/group Read a book Write a letter/journal with a pen/pencil Tell a yarn and have an argument Contribute and make a difference Stuart Taylor...

FOUNDRY: A focus on wellness

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

In 2007 a small team of psychiatrists at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver decided to take a completely different approach to helping young people aged 12-24. Their focus is on wellness, empowering young people to live a balanced and fulfilling life. FOUNDRY offers...

Teens and Sexting

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

With sexting on the rise parents and educators are grappling with how best to protect teens: preach abstinence or teach them how to be safe? Most teenagers, at increasingly younger ages, are going to deal with some kind of sexting-related experience. In February 2018,...

Self-Control: Predictor of Future Success

For Parents, For Teachers & Principals

The Dunedin, New Zealand Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study is regarded as one of the most intense and consequential investigations into human development ever undertaken. The team of researchers began collecting data in the early 1970s on more than 1,000...

NMK – Not My Kid

For Parents

Parents can be in denial about the secret digital lives many teens are leading and the array of consequences that can result. Examples: Meeting strangers, some of them adults, on a variety of apps Taking risqué photos in disguised vault apps, then trading the photos...