Recently a student told me that she dreads the “SEL” class in her school because, “the teacher is so fake.” There are three key traps that lead to this kind of failure in social emotional learning, and some simple-but-challenging solutions to find a balance in inquiry, planning, and power.
Last week in Japan my translator asked, “when you say, ‘reflection,’ what do you mean?” Midori said she couldn’t find a Japanese word that matched what I seemed to be talking about. It’s something I love about travel — and about parenting — I have opportunities to look at something so familiar, so known, that [...]
What does it mean to feel, and why does it happen? Today, most people see emotions as “good” or “bad” — which leaves us in a constant state of internal struggle against our own feelings. What if we rethink feelings as valuable signals about what’s happening!