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How Three Young Leaders Went Beyond Boasting and Posting to Hosting
2shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn As sad as they are, I find that treasures often emerge after a tragedy. That’s exactly what we’ve seen in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Over the last several weeks, the whole world has witnessed protesters, mostly young…
Continue ReadingFive Ideas to Overcome the Challenge of Virtual Learning This Fall
8shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Most of us weren’t quite sure what would happen when the nationwide quarantine was mandated and both parents and their kids found themselves attempting to work from home. What we now realize is that those students and their parents agree on one thing: Virtual learning didn’t work too well.…
Continue ReadingFour of the Best Ways to Make the Most of This Season
4shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn I love remembering the story of two young men who both contracted the deadly disease, Polio, almost a hundred years ago. One man became understandably bitter over his prognosis. He would be confined to a wheelchair and never get to do what most young men do at his age.…
Continue ReadingFive Changes Schools Plan to Make This Fall
2shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn At Growing Leaders, we have the privilege of interacting with lots of school administrators, athletic directors, and department heads. Obviously, with such a strange spring semester behind us, these leaders are planning for a new normal this fall. No one I have spoken with plans for life to go…
Continue ReadingSix Metaphors to Build an Incubator of Peace for Your Kids
9shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn A little while ago, I heard about a news report that gave me pause. ABC’s Good Morning America team interviewed the Chief of the New York Fire Department who said not only are the people infected by the coronavirus increasing in New York, but 23 percent of first responders…
Continue ReadingSeven Practical Strategies to Talk About Mental Health with Your Kids
9shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Even though mental health issues are on the forefront of our minds today, the topic still carries a stigma for many. Talking about depression can be hard. Trina, a sophomore in college, recently said to me, “We look around us and everyone else seems happy, and we feel we…
Continue ReadingHow Schools Can Practice Good Timing This Fall
3shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Did you notice that people experienced an ebb and flow to their emotional state since we were all quarantined in March? I sure you did. At first, we were refreshed, by not having to drive to work or even get dressed up for Zoom meetings. Then, we declined a…
Continue ReadingSurvey Says: Teachers and Parents Will Handle the Fall Differently
5shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Here are some icebreaker questions for you: Why have people today felt the need to: Hoard toilet paper at the grocery store? Keep their automobile gas tanks as full as possible? Purchase enough masks to keep their faces covered for a decade? The…
Continue ReadingHow Often Should We Talk About the Pandemic With Our Kids?
6shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn When my kids were young, our family witnessed the Columbine High School shooting (a campus massacre killing 15 people and injuring dozens more) and the September 11th terrorist attacks (where almost 3,000 died). My daughter was in middle school, my son in elementary school. The stories were a lot…
Continue ReadingFive Brilliant Leadership Lessons From the Protests in Louisville
29shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn One of the most moving stories emerging from the protests against police brutality, and on behalf of George Floyd (and others) who’ve been victims of racists cops, was a story out of the protests in Louisville, Kentucky in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor. Officer Galen Hinshaw heard…
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