There’s been so much focus on what’s being taught in our schools’ classrooms that we’re apt to forget what needs to happen beyond the traditional school day to sharpen and add to students’ academic achievement while providing additional learning opportunities to...
What is Grit? Do you want to get grit while you’re in high school? Here, we will take a deep dive into the meaning, definition, and characteristics of grit, as well as give you some tips on how to get “grittier.” In addition, you can take the Grit Scale Self-Test that...
Effective Communication is Key to Resolving Conflicts – But Wait, There’s More… “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” – Prison guard “in conflict” with stubborn prisoner in “Cool Hand Luke.” “Conflicts are neither constructive nor disruptive but the ways...
Just Who is the ‘iGen’ Generation and How Are They Different? The 74 million young Americans born between 1995 and 2012 comprise the most important generation in the nation’s history, both in size and composition. One out four Americans, from age 5 to 22, have been...
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society” – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States In the wake of the 2002 national “No Child Left Behind” educational initiative, it appears that plenty children have been...
