For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Social isolation is the public health risk of our time. Building your village is a matter of life and death. The secret to living longer may be your social life. Building your village can make you healthier, happier and smarter. Susan Pinker explores how our social...
For Teachers & Principals
Throughout my career, I discovered teachers learn just as much from students as students learn from us. Anthony Caruso wrote this inspiring first person account well worth a read. The written student responses are taken from exit cards after a question is posed at the...
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....
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
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,...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
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...
