One of the outcomes of COVID-19 is that educators have had to become creative in utilizing different modes of education to help students learn. We have always known that students learn a great deal from the outdoors. It is a place of real-life occurrences that embody some of the changes in nature that teach us […]
The Power of Beliefs
This past week I reread a few books that I found to be very powerful in years past and wanted to refresh my memory on some of the key points in each. A favorite of mine is The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Bruce Lipton, Ph D. This is a book filled with powerful information and images based on […]
The 10–Minute Learning Rule
As we have discovered how the brain works, we recognize it has a very limited attention span. In the world of education there is an understanding that taking brain breaks does help students stay focused and learn more effectively. The debate is over how long that takes. Some say that the brain changes every 10 […]
Learning Loss due to COVID-19
For those of us who are involved with learning for students, we have seen a significant decline in learning during COVID-19. It is just hard to keep students engaged when they are isolated and solely online. Some students have done well and all of our students need to be affirmed for their efforts. It just […]
An Opportunity to Improve Early Childhood Education
Many of our systems that care for children have been underfunded for many years. Because we have trained many early childhood educators we have heard their frustrations, their shortage of resources and their sense of incapability in caring for children. They all know that they could do more if they were appreciated and had more […]
Seven Northeast Governors Support In-Person Learning for Students
There have been many debates about whether it is better, safer or more efficacious for students to be back to in-school. Heath professionals have been very cautious in light of the resurgence of the virus infections in our country. Yet our schools have had very stringent requirements placed on us so that the risk of […]
Trauma-Informed Teaching
Particularly with the impact of COVID-19 more and more schools are understanding that many students have and are facing the realities of trauma in their lives. In a recent article of the Hechinger Report written by Ava Cotlowitz there is the acknowledgement that more and more teachers are struggling with trauma. This reality requires that […]
Weighing Issues in School Mitigation of COVID-19
The rising number of COVID-19 cases in our country has once again set off the alarms and created a new set of decisions about what to do in our schools and communities. In Pennsylvania the numbers of new cases are higher than ever before. This has presented a myriad of familiar problems of breakouts, hospitalizations […]
The “Forgetting Curve”
I am a big advocate of personal and professional growth—my own and promoting growth in others. For decades I have written all kinds of curriculum to invite people to become more aware of a given topic, gain understanding, learn skills, change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors and integrate all these into their own personal internal system […]
Good News for Pennsylvania Schools
One of the most controversial issues in education has been how safe it is to reopen our schools. There have been all kinds of guidelines and requirements placed on our schools and those of us who are providing educational services have had to jump through a number of hoops to make sure our schools are […]
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