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Preparing ‘Emerging Adults’ for College and Beyond

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Is mindfulness meditation good for kids? Here’s what the science actually says.

Meditation is meant to help students deal with stress. But the hype may be outpacing the evidence.

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Getting Their Minds Ready

How “noncognitive factors” impact adolescents’ success in school fuels the movement to prepare students to learn

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Can You “Fix” Colleagues Who Aren’t Self-Aware?

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Silicon Valley has idolized Steve Jobs for decades—and it’s finally paying the price

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Mindfulness & Connection- A Talk With Annmarie Chereso: Podcast #356

Cathy, Todd and Annmarie share why self-awareness and connection are the keys to deeper contentment.

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Stressed-Out High Schoolers Advised To Try A Nap Pod

Hannah Vanderkooy demonstrates the napping pod she uses at Las Cruces High School in Las Cruces, N.M.

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How Great Leaders Show “Triple Focus”

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The Secret Skills of High Achievers

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Teach Kids to Daydream

Mental downtime makes people more creative and less anxious.

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Students Who Lose Recess Are the Ones Who Need It Most

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The 4 Attributes of a Good Listener

A good listener not only focuses on your words, but what’s on your mind.

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Is Snooping on Teenagers Ever O.K.?

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How Colleges Can Admit Better Students

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Emotional Intelligence Myth vs. Fact

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Dr. Dan Siegel On The New 3 Rs Of Education

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Assessment: How Mindful Are You?

Mindfulness Assessment

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Who Needs Selective Enrollment When Your Neighborhood High School Has an IB Program

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How to Parent an Average Student

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Where Stress Gets Stuck in the Body—And How to Release It

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Want to Fix Schools? Go to the Principal’s Office

Taking a look at the Principal's influence in schools.

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The Skills Colleges and Employers Are Looking For

How to foster the skills your students will need throughout their education and beyond.

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Mindful Self-Awareness as the Basis for Effective Leadership (New Research)

Effective leadership and the use of mindful self-awareness techniques.

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Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs With Smartphones?

Researchers explore the declining use of drugs by teenagers as a result of increase smartphone use.

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Stress is making our children ill; here is what we can do about it

The effects of stress on our children and what we can do about it.

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Self-Awareness: The Foundation of Emotional Intelligence

Self-Awareness and emotional intelligence.

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How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body

The effects of meditation on the brain and body.

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Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?

The 12 elements of emotional intelligence.

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Stress is making our children ill; here is what we can do about it

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Self-Awareness: The Foundation of Emotional Intelligence

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How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body

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Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?

Learn about the 12 elements of emotional intelligence.

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Our Brains Do More Than Fight or Flee

New research shows a broader role for the amygdala in feeling positive emotions.

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5 Ways to Develop Kindness and Generosity

By noting some simple everyday cues we can strengthen the muscle of kindness and generosity.

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Kindness Is Intuitive — It’s Overthinking That Leads to Selfish Behavior

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Breaking These 13 Bad Habits Will Make You Happier

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Putting Grit in Its Place

The G.P.A. ethos takes spirited children and pushes them to be hard working but complaisant.

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Does Mindfulness Actually Work in Schools?

Scholars want to know whether the practice helps young kids of color succeed academically.

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy May Reduce Recurrent Depression Risk

MBCT may be comparable to antidepressants in treating recurrent depression.

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To Help Kids Thrive, Coach Their Parents

To help children living in poverty succeed, our best strategy may be to first help the adults in their lives.

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How Do You Explain Mindfulness?

How Do You Explain Mindfulness to Someone Unfamiliar with It?

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3 Ways to Bring Compassion into the Workplace

Kindness breeds organizational success.

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Want Kids to Succeed? Teach Them Focus

How to Help Children Concentrate

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Emotional Intelligence: How Competent Are You?

Emotional Intelligence Isn’t a Trait - It’s Skills

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When Teachers Take A Breath, Students Can Bloom

Mindfulness for students and teachers

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You really SHOULD keep calm and carry on

Researchers reveal the 6 things they say can keep you happy and successful.

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The Authenticity Paradox

When it's OK to fake it till you make it.

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We're Bridging the Wrong Gap With Our Low-Income Students, and Here's Why

The schools with the highest standardized test scores do not necessarily provide the best education.

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How Parents and Teachers Can Work Together For Powerful Learning Outcomes

PARENTS ARE THE FIRST TEACHERS

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20 Tips to Help De-escalate Interactions With Anxious or Defiant Students

Teacher training programs mostly assume that kids... will be “typical,” but that assumption can handicap teachers.

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Why Emotional Intelligence Is Vital To Keep Students On Track

There’s a growing and new understanding of what it takes to be successful as an adolescent and an adult.

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When Success Leads to Failure

The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning.

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Does More Time on the Playground Equal Success in the Classroom?

Some schools in Texas are going against the grain when it comes to recess.

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How Schools Are Failing Their Quietest Students

There are ways to encourage participation other than asking students to speak up in class

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How Can You Make a Student Care Enough to Work Harder?

It’s time to address the question I’ve been avoiding, the most challenging and most frequent question teachers are asked

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Why are our kids so miserable?

“Something in modern life is undermining mental health”...

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The 3 Types Of Empathy You Need To Strengthen Your Relationships

One of them is wildly underrated, says scientific journalist Daniel Goleman.

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Complaining Is Terrible for You, According to Science

Steeping yourself in negativity has seriously terrible consequences for your mental and physical health.

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Compassion Works

Choosing to open yourself up... and care for their welfare is good for them, for you, and for your organization.

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Does Mindfulness Belong in Public Schools?

Is it a universally beneficial practice, or are its proponents introducing a cultural bias...

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The Secrets to a Happy Life, From a Harvard Study

What does it take to live a good life?

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Self-Compassion Outweighs Self-Esteem for Resilience & Empowerment

...self-compassion is at the heart of empowerment, learning, and inner strength.

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This Factor Is Key to Your Attractiveness

It has to do with your emotions

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No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems

A child psychologist argues punishment is a waste of time when trying to eliminate problem behavior. Try this instead.

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Changing Habits: Know When to Turn Off Your Autopilot

A lack of presence around the nuances of a situation can be detrimental to a project – or an organization.

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Four Steps to Cultivating Compassion in Boys

Kozo Hattori interviewed researchers and spiritual leaders about how to raise compassionate boys.

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How to Cultivate Global Compassion

Legendary psychologist Paul Ekman explains how to extend compassion beyond our circle of family and friends.

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Stanford psychologist tells us how to fight workplace burnout

While working hard is admirable, our tendency to stay in a state of high alert can deplete us...

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The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids

Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.

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Letting Happiness Flourish in the Classroom

Happiness... is not something we can afford to lose ...as it forms the very foundation of deep, meaningful learning.

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2 Simple Ways To Create A Kinder World

How practicing kindness and compassion can bring real meaning and true happiness to yourself and others.

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A Kinder, Gentler World

Is compassion something we only have so much of? Or can we be trained to love more people more of the time?

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This American Life 449: Middle School

This week, at the suggestion of a 14-year-old listener, we bring you stories from the awkward... world of middle school.

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A Safe Space in Equanimity

Being able to find equanimity is essential for all of us — particularly when overwhelming emotions arise.

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The Urgent Call to Replace Fear With Curiosity

Root causes of conflict can be moderated with discussion that engenders curiosity ...

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How to Choose Self-Compassion

The cultivation of love and kindness toward oneself allows one to offer greater love and compassion to others.

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The Science of Compassion

Our poverty in the West is not that of the wallet but rather that of social connectedness.

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The Science of Compassion

What would you do if you had to spend one day beaming compassion into the world?

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The Art of Failing Upward

We should make sure that more than just the usual cast of familiar faces gets the chance to learn from experience

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Increasing ADHD Rates May Be Linked to Heightened Academic Expectations for Young Children

A new study has identified a possible correlation between ADHD and increasing academic demands on young children.

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Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework

Homework does have an impact on young students — but it’s not a good one By: HEATHER SHUMAKER

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How People Learn to Become Resilient

This research shows that resilience is, ultimately, a set of skills that can be taught....

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Anatomy of Gratitude

The practice of gratitude as full-blooded, reality-based, and redeeming.

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Tuning In: Improving Your Listening Skills

How to Get the Most Out of a Conversation

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Manage Stress by Listening to Your Body

The body acts as an early warning system, and people who pick up on its signals are more resilient.

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Science Says: Listen to Your Gut

Neuroscience tells us is that there’s more to our brain than the gray matter that rests between our ears.

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Can Emotional Inteligence Be Taught?

The goal of social-emotional learning is to instill a psychological intelligence that helps children regulate emotions.

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Developing Teachers Social and Emotional Compentencies

Emotions are at the heart of what teachers do and why they do it.

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Gratitude can Help you through Hard Times

In the face of despair, gratitude has the power to bring hope.

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What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.

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Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier.

Choosing to focus on good things makes you feel better than focusing on bad things.

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Mindfulness has huge health potential – but McMindfulness is no panacea

Mindfulness is rapidly becoming a global phenomenon.

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Daniel Goleman: Social Emotional Intelligence

Dan Goleman on building the "focus" muscle with kids in schools and thoughts from the Dali Lama

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How to Be Emotionally Intelligent

Qualities associated with “emotional intelligence” distinguish the best leaders in the corporate world.

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How Anxiety Reduces Empathy

A study suggests that stress and surprise can hurt your ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

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Life Ed: Making Meditation Part of Daily Life

A daily practice can be simple, but not always easy. Here are some simple tips to begin your practice...

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This Neuroscientist Proves Well-Being Can Change the Brain

Richie Davidson's research is proving how well-being can actually change the brain in this great article

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