For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Maximillian Park speaks as a vulnerable teen to the necessity to have emotional intelligence classes in schools. He addresses the needs that young people have for the skills that come along with a high EQ. He discusses his experience with emotional intelligence, the...
For Teachers & Principals
There’s a Hole in My Sidewalk: Autobiography in Five Short Chapters I. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost…. I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out. II. I walk down the same street....
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Tanya Talaga’s Seven Truths highlights the fight for human rights among First Nations peoples. The basis for the Audible.ca podcast Seven Truths comes from the Seven Grandfather Teachings that guide Anishinaabe life – humility, love, honesty,...
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Instead of obsessing over the hours children spend using devices, experts now suggest considering how kids are using them. Some key points from an article by Dave McGinn, Globe and Mail, January 16, 2021 – Why it’s time to feel less guilty about screen time...
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French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre wrote some of his most influential work including a theatrical drama about Christmas while he spent nine months as a prisoner of war in Stalag 12 in Nice and acknowledged, possibly for the first time, the full meaning and broader...
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Put down the self-help books. Resilience is not a DIY endeavour! Michael Ungar is the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience, a professor of social work at Dalhousie University and a family therapist. He is the author of more than a dozen...
