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Time’s 2019 Person of the Year Is a Teenager
4shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Have you heard of Greta Thunberg? In many ways, she’s a typical 16-year old student from Sweden. She’s an adolescent on social media who wants to change the world. The big difference is—she actually is changing the world right now. Greta was just named TIME magazine’s 2019 Person of…
Continue ReadingHow Two Teachers Made a Life-Changing Impact
4shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Each week, leading up to “Giving Tuesday,” I decided to post a story illustrating the “art of generosity.” Instead of asking you to give to our non-profit, we chose to offer a handful of stories of generous people, then challenge you to find your own young person nearby and…
Continue ReadingWhat If Leadership Didn’t Just Come from the Team Captain?
5shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn The first Monday Night Football game of 2019 between the Houston Texans and the New Orleans Saints was a great one. “The Saints took possession with 37 seconds remaining in the game, used 36 of those seconds to drive to the Texans’ 40-yard line, and put Wil Lutz on…
Continue ReadingHow to Prevent Becoming a Snowplow Parent
52shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn On my drive to work each day, I pass by several bus stops where children wait to be picked up. They are not alone. Parents are there, too. Lots of them. Once I stopped to count the number of adults waiting with several 8- to 11-year-old students. There were…
Continue ReadingFive Ways to Develop Empathy in Generation Z
9shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn In May 2007, an Iraqi artist named Wafaa Bilal decided to move into a gallery space in Chicago. He planned to do a 30-day experiment on “empathy” in light of what had happened to his brother In Iraq. His brother had been killed by an airstrike from a drone…
Continue ReadingThe Secret Behind a Best-Selling Author’s Success
11shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn In 1973, you would have never guessed that Stephen King would one day be a best-selling author. I say this because of: Where he lived. How he thought. What he did for work. How much money he made. And the kind of stuff he wrote at the time. That…
Continue ReadingSix Ways to Help Students Make Good Summer Decisions
11shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn With summer upon us, many parents are processing how their kids can best use their time. It’s a difficult balance to strike. Too often, a typical school year consists of mom rushing her kids through a drive-through, grabbing some chicken nuggets and hustling over to a practice or rehearsal.…
Continue ReadingAdversity May Just Be a Student’s Best Friend
7shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Last week I met someone at a student conference who inspired me. Alex is a junior in high school who has overcome several obstacles in his first sixteen years of life—an abusive, deadbeat dad who left the family; growing up in a single parent household afterward; family income that…
Continue ReadingThe Secret to John Wooden’s Coaching Success
15shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn We’ve all seen it. Sometimes, we see it in ourselves. A college game is on ESPN, and a coach is screaming on the sidelines. His face is red; his mouth is wide open, contorted, and his veins are about to pop out. Who knows—he may even throw his headset…
Continue ReadingOne Sign Every School Needs to Hang Up
0shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn I loved the news report I read last month. Perhaps you saw it too. A Catholic High School in Little Rock, Arkansas has a rule for parents whose students are enrolled in their school: Please stop rescuing your kid. It is a high school for boys and, like thousands…
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