Dear Gene, I recently attended your seminar in Cleveland, Ohio on March 31 2006. I heard about you from another teacher and decided to go. I knew you were going to have great ideas but I had no idea that all of it would hit so close to home. You see I work for the… Read more »
CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper, in his address to graduates at Yale recently, made some excellent points. However, he forgot to mention success comes as we apply certain principals to our lives. Here are some key points you may not have learned in a college classroom but which are necessary for anyone’s success: (1) Find your… Read more »
* TO BE MODELS OF EVERYTHING WE ASK CHILDREN TO DEMONSTRATE AND BECOME? * TO TRUST THEM IN SOLVING PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT THEM? * TO CREATE ISLANDS OF PEACE, FREE FROM VIOLENCE AND ABUSE? * TO PROVIDE LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT STRENGTHEN, INSPIRE AND CHALLENGE THEIR MINDS? * TO BE AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT, NOURISH, AND COMFORT… Read more »
Character building making schools safer, Central Jersey teachers say By CHAD HEMENWAY – Staff Writer School districts throughout the state have adopted various character-education programs to teach students respect, responsibility and integrity in an effort to make schools better — and safer — learning environments. Just a dream? Not according to administrators and teachers in… Read more »
Environment Plays a Major Role in Shaping Children’s Social Behavior Bad genes may make a brute, but it takes a bad environment to make a bully. A new study shows that it’s bad influences more so than genes that are behind making children bullies. Researchers say the results show that the type of social aggression… Read more »
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Students who bully others tend to have difficulties with other relationships, such as those with friends and parents. Targeting those relationships, as well as the problems children who bully have with aggression and morality, may offer ideas for intervention and prevention. Those are the findings of a new study that was conducted by scientists at… Read more »
I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do. – Arthur Warwick
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they’ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. – Actor Kevin Costner
