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Monthly Archives: February 2016
What we’re getting right – and wrong – about mindfulness...
Recently, my sister and I were watching a TV show that explored the minds and…
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A New Breed of Tools: Offline Digital Learning
Whether you want to learn to tie a tie or you want to learn about…
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Staff Pick: Untangling Adolescence
If you teach middle or high school—or if you parent teens—you have no doubt wondered…
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind...
“Contradict yourself!” Scott Barry Kaufman, scientific director of the Imagination Institute at the University of…
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The Psychology of Belonging (and Why it Matters)
Accepting The Need to Belong Last fall, we heard about highly charged situations arising across…
5 Ways to Use Rewards in the Classroom
My first year of teaching, I was all about bribery; I had no problem stocking…
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