For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
The National Institute of Health website has all sorts of valuable health information. Of particular interest are the Wellness Toolkits. Each person’s “healthiest self” is different. We have different bodies, minds, living situations, and people influencing our lives....
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Bob Joseph, President of Indigenous Corporate Training Inc., has written the informative article What is an Indigenous Medicine Wheel?. The Wellness Wheel centrepiece in “Wellness: A Question of Balance” and the Indigenous Medicine Wheel demonstrate similar...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Back to school means lots of change this year. While this year is going to be a challenge for parents and teachers out there, kids may be the ones who need the most support in building their capacity to be resilient, adaptable, and grounded. There are a variety of...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
As the ongoing pandemic brings into sharp focus the ways kids are learning (or not), Next City looks at self-directed education, which respects each student’s passions, encourages self-sufficiency and turns the city into a classroom. The story about the United States...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
The medical journal The Lancet has examined the impact of social distancing on adolescents. The summary points out that young people between the ages of 10 and 24 need to interact face-to-face with their peers to develop fully, both behaviourally and neurologically....
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
This article is a good reminder to focus kids’ activities on play, physical exercise, the arts (music, drama, art, movement, etc.) as therapeutic outlets. Reopen schools with a ‘golden age of play’ Excerpt: When the novel coronavirus is no longer as...
