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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...
Read MoreCaregivers: 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...
Read MoreSchools 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...
Read MoreParenting 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...
Read More90 percent of Americans Say They Believe in An Afterlife
90% of Americans Say They Believe in An Afterlife Do you believe in an afterlife? Do you scoff at the notion of 'you-only-living-once?' Do you believe that this life is merely the first stop in a wondrous cosmic journey? If so,...
Read MoreCell 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...
Read MoreReal Personalized Education
Throwing Our Babies Out with the Bath Water Americans live and work in a “throw away” society. We literally throw tons of things and people away sooner or later…most often sooner. Worse yet, we are...
Read MoreGhosts of Education Past Hurts More than Tiny Tim
Ghosts of Education Past Hurts More than Tiny Tim Is the traditional approach to schooling, classrooms filled with desks and teachers talking up front, no longer working? Are the ghosts of education past actually hurting, rather...
Read MoreInfant Emotional Disturbance and PKU
Infant Emotional Disturbance as Early as PKU “Waaaaaaaaaah!” my newborn screamed when the nurse poked her heel. And “waaaaaaaaaaaah!” she continued, even thirty minutes later. Seeing the trauma of...
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