Students
The Right Time to Give a Second Chance
16shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Ashton just got suspended from his high school for an entire week for cheating. His mother, Jan, was beside herself, because six other students (Ashton’s classmates) got excused for their misconduct, only having to serve one detention period. Jan, obviously, felt it wasn’t fair. Why should her son get…
Continue ReadingHow to Help Your Student Athletes Win On and Off the Field
4shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn I’d like you to reflect on a statement that four student athletes made to me in 2018. Perhaps it will spark a relevant conversation on your team: “I feel my coach only sees me as an athlete, not as a human being.” Whether we know it or not, we…
Continue ReadingIf You Want Your Students to Like You…
26shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn There is a subtle and sinister reality facing parents, coaches and educators today. Its source is invisible, but tangible. It can be spotted when we get caught up in the past, and begin to resent our present. Let me explain what I mean. I recently spoke to a group…
Continue ReadingIs Every Kid Supposed To Be a Leader?
15shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn There I stood in front of a crowd of one thousand students and faculty members, at a university in the Midwest. One instructor stood up with a question I get almost everywhere I go, because I teach leadership to students. The person asking usually has an answer already—they just…
Continue ReadingHow to Increase Commitment in Students
11shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Student engagement. It’s a topic every educator thinks about today. How do we get these kids with an eight-second attention span to stay committed to what they said they’d do? How do we get them to pay attention long enough to accomplish something significant? How do we get them…
Continue ReadingA Classroom Where Students Lead
5shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn I met Uduak Afangideh, PhD, at Faulkner University five years ago. We met again this past fall when I spoke on her campus and talked about what we were both learning about engaging college students today. Originally from Nigeria, Dr. Afangideh is the Science Department Chair and Professor of…
Continue ReadingFour Healthy Coping Mechanisms Teens Can Use
23shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn The numbers were just released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and American life expectancy has dropped for the first time since World War I. In fact it’s dropped for the last three years. When I first read this, I was stunned. Seriously? Isn’t science and medicine…
Continue ReadingAnxiety: One Solution to Get Out of this Mess
33shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Everywhere I go, I meet adults (most of them parents) who are afraid for our kids today. We are afraid of what can happen on social media, school shootings, drug abuse, cyber-bullying, terrorism, phone addictions, you name it. Since I see this in every state, I decided to dig…
Continue ReadingFive Dangerous Apps Parents Don’t Know Teens Use
251shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn One decade ago, high school senior, Jessica Logan sent a nude photo of herself to her boyfriend. When they later broke up, he forwarded the photo to everyone else at her school. This launched her tragic attempt to hide from those who teased her about being a slut. Jessica…
Continue ReadingOne Great Reason to Reduce Social Media Use
9shares Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn I just finished speaking to both parents and students at a high school and—wouldn’t you know it—social media was the all-consuming topic of my two days on campus. So many parents felt obliged to purchase a smart phone for their child as a middle-schooler, and now years into the…
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