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Emotional Coaching – The Key to Emotionally Healthy Children

by edtosavetheworld | Feb 5, 2015 | Stage 2: Joyful and Efficient

How do we foster emotionally healthy children? Researcher Psychologist John Gottman found two categories of interactions with kids: Emotion Dismissers and Emotion Coaches. Emotion coaches DO FIVE THINGS:  Notice lower intensity emotions in self and kids. Kids don’t...

What does it mean to be a “school that learns?”

by edtosavetheworld | Jan 15, 2014 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership

In the book Schools that Learn, Peter Senge and several other authors seek to challenge the assumption that school is the place for learning and the adult world is the place for knowing. They assert that the development of children depends on the development of all...

Try this: Track your thinking!

by edtosavetheworld | Aug 6, 2013 | Stage 1: Adult Learning and Leadership

Every Tuesday we will post a quick idea that you can try right away. Here’s the first one. Stage 1 of our Framework asserts that learning is never over and that a culture of adult learning, risk taking and growth is the foundation of school transformation. Our...