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  • Focus on EQ: What is Social Emotional Learning?
    September 6, 2011 Gary Yorke

    Focus on EQ: What is Social Emotional Learning?

    Focus on EQ: What is Social Emotional Learning?  As we start the new school year, it’s worth asking ourselves, “what are the most important skills we want our students to gain? What do we hope they will be able to...

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  • Starting the Multicultural Conversation
    September 5, 2011 Gary Yorke

    Starting the Multicultural Conversation

    When I was pregnant with my first daughter I worked for an after school program sponsored by the local YMCA. Though the ostensible purpose of the program as a whole was built around the latchkey child concept, I had the...

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  • Teen Journaling Can Build Teacher-Student Connection
    August 30, 2011 Gary Yorke

    Teen Journaling Can Build Teacher-Student Connection

    Ever ask a middle or high school teacher if he/she has had their students journal for a week, a month or longer? You are likely to hear how it improved student-teacher connection, classroom rapport, and a teacher’s appreciation of his/her...

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  • It’s never too early to start socializing
    August 29, 2011 Gary Yorke

    It’s never too early to start socializing

    When we think about children socializing, we automatically imagine a group in school, forging friendships and playing together. However, we develop social skills as early as the first few months of our lives, and there is no question but that...

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  • Nobody Likes Me: Teaching Students How to Make Friends
    August 8, 2011 Gary Yorke

    Nobody Likes Me: Teaching Students How to Make Friends

    It’s no secret that education today is a world filled with high-stakes testing, competition for federal funding and grants, and an overall atmosphere of one-upping the next guy, be it a rival school, another state, or another nation. When No...

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