Helping Your Students Start 2021 With A Positive Outlook
After the unique challenges that 2020 brought on for people around the world, 2021 presents a new opportunity. That’s why it’s even more important than ever to help ensure students…
Who Wins When Social and Emotional Learning Meets Real Life?
By: Tim Elmore In times like these, we can all use some good news. This past year, 2020, was quite a year, complete with a pandemic, protests, political polarization, pay…
Moving From Superficial to Significant Connections with Your Students
Over the course of a student’s academic career, they have countless conversations with different teachers, coaches, counselors, administrators, and more. However, when looking back at the end of their academic…
Why Leaders Miss New Opportunities and How to Fix That in 2021
By: Tim Elmore Tony Piloseno, an Ohio State University senior, took a part-time job working at a local Sherwin-Williams store a few years ago. Unlike many employed college students, he…
Using The “Proven Method” To Engage Your Students Effectively
One problem many educators are currently facing is the challenge of engaging today’s students, some of which are only meeting in a virtual classroom. Now that many educators are aware…
Tim Elmore’s Favorite Things from 2020
By: Tim Elmore Each year, I usually post a list of my favorite books I’ve read the previous 12 months. This year, I am going to mix it up and…
The One Thing I Do at the Beginning of Each Year
By: Tim Elmore Last week, I posted a ritual I perform at the end of each year. A second ritual I do is a natural follow-up. It…
Tim Elmore’s Favorite Things from 2020
As we look back and reflect on this past year, we want to bring attention to a few specific resources that have been particularly helpful to Dr. Tim Elmore. In…
If It Weren’t 2020
By: Tim Elmore The year started well, with our work and our money Our weather was warming, and our spring became sunny. Our life was quite normal, and resources were…
Helping Generation Z Use Self-Awareness to Create Self-Confidence
Millions of students today project self-confidence, but it’s fragile, fake, and temporary, built off of the “likes” or “shares” others have given them on social media. When their confidence is…
Three Words of Encouragement For You This Holiday Season
By: Tim Elmore Don’t tell me. I’ve already heard it — you are ready for 2020 to be over, to turn a new page and start a new chapter for…
The Importance of Developing Emotionally Intelligent Schools and Homes
Our world today is stressed by a COVID-19 pandemic and a severe economic downturn. Further, it’s noisier than ever with many voices, including both television and social media. These are…
Six Warning Signs Your Students Are Struggling with the Pandemic
By: Tim Elmore I wonder if adults fully comprehend what’s going on inside the minds of kids today. Mental health issues were already mounting among those in Generation Z, but…
Why Many Students Still Aren’t Ready for Virtual Learning
In the world of education, one of the challenges brought on by COVID-19 has been virtual learning. While it has served as a way to connect and still continue schooling…
Four Secrets to Virtually Approach Social and Emotional Learning
By: Tim Elmore Have you ever heard of BeauTubers? This is a term describing beauty-YouTubers. A beauty YouTuber, commonly referred to as a beauty vlogger, beauty guru, beauty influencer, or…
Four Great Ideas to Make the Most of This Season
Because 2020 has been a year unlike any other, it’s easy to sit back and merely wait to see what will happen next. However, we also have the choice to…
How to Help Gen Z Develop Empathy in Personal Relationships
Today’s blog is from Grace Hooley. Grace is a next gen researcher, writer, and Content Coordinator for Growing Leaders. While I (Grace) was in university, I studied with a fellow…
How Emotional Intelligence Increases Students’ Influence
Almost every student wants to have some level of influence with others. However, it can oftentimes be difficult for students to understand how to develop that influence or how to…
Three Social and Emotional Skills to Prepare Gen Z for Their Careers
Laura is an HR executive who just finished her 14th interview in a single week with a prospective job candidate. We spoke by phone at the end of her week,…
What the History of Education Can Teach Us About the Future of Education
In honor of American Education Week, now is a good time to reflect on education from a macro-perspective. What are some of the norms in education today? And why were…
The Importance of Developing Emotionally Intelligent Schools and Homes
I was stunned to hear what had happened at Stanley Middle School in Lafayette, California. Seventh-grader Merek Mastrov, who is 12 years old, missed a total of 90 minutes of…
How to Help Generation Z Redefine Resilience and Overcome Life’s Challenges
Because Generation Z is future-focused, they’ve begun to feel helpless and hopeless as a result of this global pandemic. Many feel the coronavirus is stealing their futures. Yet, while resilience…
Four Reasons Why a Gap Year Might be the Best Way for Students to Build SEL Skills (Even During a Pandemic)
Today’s blog post is from Steve Moore. Steve is an author, speaker, and president of Growing Leaders. I came across an interesting letter written by a father on behalf of…
Two Ideas to Enable Students to Engage and Retain a Virtual Lesson
Public education has been founded upon memorization and testing for over a century. While we all agree we must do more than drill our students to memorize curriculum, remembering information…
The Secret to Starting Real-Life Conversations with Your Students
I made a discovery recently. The schools that experience the toughest challenges with a remote learning model (or even a hybrid schedule) are the ones that continue to push for…
The Most Important Leadership Trait You Can Teach This Year
In the midst of a global pandemic, there is one essential leadership trait that we must focus on developing in today’s students and young adults. In this episode, Tim Elmore…
The Pros & Cons of E-Learning to Build Social & Emotional Learning Skills
For many years now, researchers in educational fields have been trying to understand the influence of technology in the classroom. Is it helping? Is it hurting? Should we be using…
The New Form of Literacy that Predicts Student Success
Over the past few years, a new form of literacy has become more well-known now that it has proven to be a future indicator of student success. In this episode,…
Why Many Students Still Aren’t Ready for Virtual Learning
I watched a revealing video made by Olivia, a freshman student from Toronto. It’s called “Numb,” and it’s just over three minutes long. It describes what life feels like for…
Two Simple Ways to Talk to Your Students About Emotional Intelligence
Because the month of October is Emotional Intelligence Awareness month, it’s a great opportunity to have conversations with the young adults in your life about it. At its core, emotional…
The Secret to Leading Poorly Performing Students Well
If you’re like me, you’ve attended countless webinars on leading students during a pandemic. You’ve probably read so many articles on COVID-19 you feel like a cross between a therapist…
How to Prepare Generation Z for the ‘New Normal’ After the Pandemic
One of our most important jobs as leaders is to prepare today’s emerging adults for the harsh realities ahead while maintaining a positive narrative. If we fail to lead them…
Helping Generation Z Use Self-Awareness to Create Self-Confidence
It didn’t take long for people to recognize that Babe Ruth was a special athlete. The Sultan of Swat was a natural baseball player, better at hitting and pitching than…
Five Ideas to Overcome the Challenge of Virtual Learning
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 in spring…
How Emotional Intelligence Increases Students’ Influence
Chuck was a bully on my high school campus. Back in the day, everyone in our class dreaded encountering him. On a good day, he was merely rude or offensive.…
Four Huge Mistakes Schools Have Made Over the Years
The evolution of public education was both intentional and accidental. The more adults created systems to control a child’s developmental process, the less those kids matured. Better grades didn’t always…
Educators: The Most Important Leadership Trait You Can Teach This Year
A young couple recently moved into a new house. While eating breakfast their first morning, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging her wash on the clothesline in her backyard.…
How to Help Generation Z Through the COVID-19 Mental Health Crisis
In the Spring of 2020, a global pandemic brought challenges that no one could have predicted. Millions were infected worldwide. In the midst of very public problems, however, a silent…
How to Help Generation Z Redefine Resilience and Overcome Life’s Challenges
I’ve been white water rafting twice in my life, once in California and once in Colorado. It’s completely different from the lazy river rafting I’ve enjoyed on the Chattahoochee River…
Two Ideas to Enable Students to Engage and Retain a Virtual Lesson
Public education has been founded upon memorization and testing for over a century. While we all agree we must do more than drill our students to memorize curriculum, remembering information…
Four Huge Mistakes Schools Have Made Over the Years
I sat in a well-lit room, full of colorful posters on the walls. Twelve people from four generations sat in a circle. Our goal was to discuss how our world…
How to Prepare Gen Z for the ‘New Normal’ After the Pandemic
When I was a young kid, seat belts were introduced to automobiles. I remember in 1968 when the federal government made them mandatory. At first, they were only lap belts…