Taking a break from school is something we all need, but summer can and should be a time of important personal growth. Educators and parents are in prime positions to promote summer learning mindsets that include (safe) risk-taking and getting comfortable with initial failure. Going into summer, it’s important that we provide students with the courage […]
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Why Taming Fear Improves Learning
We have often been told by educators that implementing learning about emotions and how to regulate them into their classroom would be great but that there is simply no room in the school day to squeeze it in. We are going to make the case for you to do it anyway. Why? Because learning to […]
Fear Part 2: Taming the Lizard Brain
Anger, dread, frustration, anxiety… If you have been feeling any of those emotions of late you have your lizard brain to thank (or the presidential primaries). While certainly not enjoyable states of being these emotions have played a key role in your survival thus far into adulthood. Survival in our modern age, though, is very […]
Fear: A Brain-Wise Strategy
Fear is everywhere, and it’s working. Whether we are listening or not, we are constantly bombarded by information about terrifying things that could be or are happening. Agitation and dread are being poured all over the political arena like chocolate sauce over a sundae made for a five-year-old, by a five-year-old. And as certain primary […]