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It's always a beautiful day in Mr. Jeff Rogers' neighborhood. After 3-plus decades helping troubled children in both public and private schools, it's time to start sharing with the world what I've learned. There's a lot to be said for working in the cauldron of the day-in and day-out practice. Or is there? You be... Read more

It's always a beautiful day in Mr. Jeff Rogers' neighborhood. After 3-plus decades helping troubled children in both public and private schools, it's time to... Read more

Smartphone Addiction is Not Just an Imagined Condition
By Jeff Rogers

Smartphone Addiction is Not Just an Imagined Condition

Smartphone Addiction is as Real and Serious as Cancer, No Joke “The very first thing every morning, and the last thing every night.”  --Dean Martin My friends joke about their phone being the least used...

Trauma-Sensitive Schools for All Students
By Jeff Rogers

Trauma-Sensitive Schools for All Students

Not ‘What’ Schools are For, but ‘Who’ "Teach your children well, Their father's hell did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they pick, the one you'll know by." --Crosby, Stills and Nash...

School Leadership and the Importance of Truly Professional Relationships
By Jeff Rogers

School Leadership and the Importance of Truly...

School Principals are No Longer “The Boss,” but Now the “Stirrers of the Sauce” “One part trust, one part admiration, one part compassion… and we hold the spoon, we’re the stirrers of...

Homeless Children and What Schools Must Do
By Jeff Rogers

Homeless Children and What Schools Must Do

No Child Should Ever Be Homeless…Ever! “Bless the beasts and the children Give them shelter from the storm Keep them safe, keep them warm.” --sung by The Carpenters, Homeless in Salinas “Stop!”...

It's High Time to Finally Talk About the Big Elephant in U.S. Classrooms
By Jeff Rogers

It's High Time to Finally Talk About the Big...

They Shoot Crazed Elephants, Don't They? “I bought my friend an elephant for his room. He said thank you. I said, “Don’t mention it.” --anonymous pun There’s a really, really, really big elephant...

NASA Space Heroes, the Vietnam War, and School Shootings All Fodder for Desensitization
By Jeff Rogers

NASA Space Heroes, the Vietnam War, and School Shootings...

Comfortably Numb: The Desensitization of Americans About School Shootings Once Upon a Time "To infinity and beyond!" --Buzz Lightyear Once upon a time, everyone knew America’s first astronauts. The Right Stuff legends were...

An Ex-Principal Talks About Spanking in Schools
By Jeff Rogers

An Ex-Principal Talks About Spanking in Schools

Spanking in Schools…It’s the Parents’ Thing to Do As a 17-year school principal, I only spanked a student once, with the boy’s mother watching the whole thing. It was my first and my last. The 5-year old...

Teens, Negative Body Image, and School
By Jeff Rogers

Teens, Negative Body Image, and School

Negative Body Image: Do We Do Near Enough in Schools? I was always the smallest kid in school through my junior year. I was born 2-months premature, weighing in at a strapping 3 pounds, and stretching to a gangly 12-inches. Finding a...

A Death Sentence for High School Sports
By Jeff Rogers

A Death Sentence for High School Sports

Kill High School Sports? Are You Criminal? “Take me out to the ballgame,” has a totally different meaning when it becomes “Take the ballgame out of me,” and the repercussions could well be fatal. Making the...