
Phone Apps, Video Games, Computer Simulations and Teacher...
There’s an App For That, Right? Video games can build mental muscles. Research over the last decade says so. Look for yourself. They’re not just games kids play anymore. Researchers Say “Video gaming can increase...
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Upstanding Bully Prevention: A Program That Works
Students When They Really "Give a Hoot" About Others The Orchard Elementary School Owls really "give a hoot" about one another. Their school motto is "Together is Better," and they mean it, because they literally, day in and day...
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Schools and Early Therapy-Needs identification
It's Time to Put Our Money Where Our Mouths Should Be 1.2 million students drop out of U.S. schools every year. That's roughly 7,000 every day, or 1 every 26 seconds, according to data compiled by folks at ChildTrends.org and...
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Parenting and Teening
Dancing on a Rope: Parenting and Teening "Teach your children well... Teach your parents well... Just look at them and sigh, And know that they love you." Graham Nash For years before my daughter was born, I had recurring...
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Caregivers: Who's There for Them When They Need...
Caregivers: Who's There for Them When They Need Someone? I taught in classrooms and administrated entire schools for more than 3-decades, and I can say that no one was there for me when I experienced my first student who used a gun...
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Parenting and Teening...Two of the Toughest Jobs
Dancing on a Rope: Parenting and Teening "Teach your children well... Teach your parents well... Just look at them and sigh, And know that they love you." Graham Nash For years before my daughter was born, I had recurring...
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Cell Phones: Pandora's Box Redux
Cell Phones: Pandora's Box Redux Everyone has one…or more. There are more of them than people in the United States, recently reported the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Further, the number of times and the length...
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Cell Phones: Pandora's Box Redux
Cell Phones: Pandora's Box Redux Everyone has one…or more. There are more of them than people in the United States, recently reported the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Further, the number of times and the length...
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Was Daycare and Pre-School Such a Good Idea Afterall?
Stranger Danger of a Different Kind in America’s Daycares and Pre-Schools Leaving our kids with strangers in their pre-school years is good preparation for school, where they will experience more of the same until...
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