Under-resourced students are far more likely to suffer from the negative effects of life in unhealthy environments. Educators who understand the connection of good physical and emotional health with academic success create connections for students and their families to resources that can help to mitigate the negative impacts of poor health.
In the past five years, more schools in the US have adopted mindfulness programs aimed at helping students cope with stress and pressures to help improve their academic achievement. Educators
The concept of “screen time” for children is often demonized in the media, but technology can play a vital role in learning, Lisa Guernsey says in this interview. Guernsey says
Jen Wojciechowski, a psychologist with a child and adolescent program, says social media addiction can have some of the same negative consequences as substance use disorder. Teens, she says, also
Here is a new post from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, author of a number of popular posts on this blog, including “Why so many kids can’t sit still in
Students who get regular, recommended amounts of sleep, have better academic outcomes, with sleep factoring into about one-fourth of the difference among students’ grades, according to a study by researchers
If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn’t want
Educators want to foster meaningful and joyful engagement in learning, promote mastery of new concepts and skills, and support healthy, balanced students. But sometimes our daily policies and practices can
Educators today must do far more than teach content. We are expected to figure out how to get students to access the curriculum, “shut off” distractions and focus during lessons,
As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. A new study, published in the open-access
Gail Kennedy of our ACEs Connection team came up with the idea for the 3 realms of ACEs while talking with Elaine Miller-Karas of the Trauma Resource Institute and Bob
