1. Respect is Earned through Integrity. 2. Respect is Earned through Humility. 3. Respect is Earned through Dependability. 4. Respect is Earned through Generosity. – Gene Bedley

One of the more requested poems from Gene Bedley’s Seminars on “The Five P’s of Raising Responsible Children” is “I’m Always Here”. A poem he shares with several quotes on Compassion. I’m always here to understand you I’m always here To laugh with You I’m always here To cry with you I’m always here To… Read more »

For months, a boy in LaShonda Davis’s fifth-grade class made her life unbearable. Whenever he got the opportunity, he would sexually taunt her by trying to grab at her breasts, rub against her in the hallways or whisper that he wanted to “get in bed” with her. Once, he put a doorstop in his pants… Read more »

A pilot program underway at Palm Springs Middle School in Hialeah, Fla., is teaching at-risk youth techniques to calm their spirits and increase their ability to learn. The “Heart Smarts” program, designed by the Institute of HeartMath (Boulder Creek, Calif.), uses games and strategies such as “Freeze-Frame” to help students tap into positive feelings of… Read more »

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world, the heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Educators say kindness can help stem violence While many school district officials spent the summer installing crisis plans, automatic locks and surveillance cameras, teachers made plans to install a new kind of security in their students — trust and communication. Nearly one third of metro Detroit districts will return to classrooms this week. They will… Read more »

Superior school administrators exert positive leadership characteristics in working with people, and strive continually to develop and strengthen the following traits: 1. COURAGE. It takes a great deal of courage to be a superior administrator. The administrator must do the best for the most. Administrators must be able to take criticism from their board of… Read more »

What you have in the life of a nation you must first put into its schools

LAWS * ETHICS Since values demand so much from us, wouldn’t it just be easier to lay down some rules with kids and expect them to follow the rules. Plato once asked his students, “Don’t laws equal ethics?” Plato’s response was “Ethics equal laws only in a perfect society.” Since we do not live in… Read more »

A survey of American workers found that almost half admit to committing unethical or illegal acts at work in the past year. “Fifty-six percent felt pressure from their supervisors to actunethically,” says the Cutler Daily Scoop. “How often do you hear things like, ‘I don’t care, just get it done.’” Fourteen percent say they covered… Read more »