Connecting with our highest selves, Connecting with others, Connecting with loved ones. Connection matters more to success in life than high school grades or college ranking.
Making time, space and money for connection makes a difference and these posts offer you ideas for improving your connections and those of your students:
– Expanding Sports and Arts
– Reducing homework and school pressure to increase family connection
– How connection can change a life
– Keep school performance from damaging your connection
I sometimes wonder why so much of what is considered “good literature” for ourselves and for students has to be dark, depressing, or unhappy. I’m not against stories in which something bad happens, but knowing that bad news seizes and clings, while good news slides right off us, I like to prime myself with uplifting […]
If a young adult you know is in the bottom 80% of the class, you may have been told that she is “an underachiever” (a polite way of saying lazy or dumb). Ask yourself, “Underachiever compared to what?” Compared to the narrowly-defined, standardized measures of school performance? Or compared to the abilities that will help […]
Originally posted on February 21, 2007 What would you expect to hear from a would-be superintendent if you asked him what he wants to change in the public school system? Smaller classes? Stronger academics? Improved test scores? These are often the words we hear proclaimed when discussing school improvement, so I was surprised and delighted […]
“Do you agree there is too much homework?” parents (and sometimes teachers) often ask me. My short answer? “Usually.” So, if you’re one of those who question the amount of homework students get, you’ll be happy to see the 3 biggest reasons to reduce it. When my own daughters were going through high school (two […]