[caption id="attachment_1566" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of David Castillo Dominici"][/caption] The topic of teens and depression can be really difficult to broach. Over the past few years, incidents of suicide among, especially gay, young men and women who suffered in...
[caption id="attachment_1413" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of chrisroll"][/caption] It’s no secret that bullying in American schools is a mounting problem for all children. As special needs educators the link between bullying and exclusion and children who struggle with additional health...
Today marks a sad anniversary in the history of the American school system. It was on this day, April, 20, 1999 that the first massive school shooting in our country’s history took place in Columbine, CO. Thirteen years later, we...
Teens are an incredibly stressed lot. They tell me so on surveys after school assemblies and in stress management workshops I conduct. When asked how many of them go to bed at night and lay a busy, worried and anxious...
