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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...
Read MoreTrauma-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...
Read MoreSchool 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...
Read MoreHomeless 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!”...
Read MoreIt'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...
Read MoreNASA 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...
Read MoreTeens, 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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MorePhone 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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