[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono"][/caption] As a mother, there are few moments I treasure more than seeing those who raised me and my husband interact with my own children. My girls are fortunate to have...
In the autumn of 1974, early in my career as school principal, a kind and gentle fifth grader named Davion was having trouble with some of the other boys in the class. In particular, a boy named Jeremy was becoming increasingly...
Focus on EQ: Gratitude, Optimism, and Technology. In this holiday season, thoughts naturally turn to expressions of gratitude. Gratitude, it turns out, is one idea that’s also part of a larger movement called Positive Psychology, whose practitioners study health promoting...
Once there were three little girls, Kathy, Lilly and Susan. They were all new to my school in the seventh grade and had come from different schools. But in eighth grade, when they were together, they turned themselves into a...
[caption id="attachment_651" align="alignright" width="447" caption="Racially offensive costumes are more than a "trick" this Halloween"][/caption] Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, an opinion that I know I share with many children and teens. There is just something magical about the...
On October 23rd, 60 Minutes produced a segment outlining the huge strides many autistic children are taking by using Apple's iPad to communicate and learn. The easy-to-use touch and swipe screen is opening up a new world that so many...
[caption id="attachment_524" align="alignleft" width="298"] Think about different ways to arrange your students' seating to change the conversation pattern in the classroom.[/caption] I went to graduate school at a small, state-funded Liberal Arts College in the State of New York. The...
Cultivating.....according to the dictionary, it’s trying to acquire or develop something, like a quality or a new skill. What do you cultivate? While I admit it’s not my favorite thing to do, sometimes I do cultivate my garden. I spend...
Today, we have our first ever Guest Post here on the CW Blog. Joy Smith is a mother of four, and her son Adrian was diagnosed with autism in April of 2006. — — [caption id="attachment_380" align="alignright" width="465" caption="Adrian"][/caption] My...
In general, adolescents do not know when they are experiencing grief. Nor do they have the innate skills to handle grief. Through my experience working with teens, I've found that many families do not discuss loss or grief; processing grief...
During the middle of the twentieth century a psychologist name Benjamin Bloom created a classification system to identify levels of thinking. This arrangement is known as Bloom’s Taxonomy. Intellectual processes are ordered from the most basic, “knowledge” to the most...
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...
