HUFFPOST
In 2007, when my younger brother died suddenly, one piece of advice I received stuck: Now is a time for strength. Do the things that make you strong.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Focusing on social emotional health is an upstream effort to mitigate and prevent serious mental health issues in the future. However, it is not nearly upstream enough.
PBS’ NEXT AVENUE
What’s worse is that stress, anxiety and depression act as attention thieves. When the fear center of our brain is activated, it suppresses the part of our brain most able to fully attend to what is in front of us and to connect with others.
TIME
I find it heartening to know that practicing social and emotional health in our own homes, even in small ways, can lay the groundwork for a return to civility and connection.
MINDFUL
A growing body of science, including the work of Harvard University’s Center for the Developing Child, has found that toxic stress can impede healthy development, literally changing children’s brains and affecting their capacity to absorb even the best instruction. Mindfulness is a much-needed life preserver in this otherwise troubling picture.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
If we aren't paying attention to our own behavior and attitudes, we actually do harm. When what we say and what we do don't match, kids experience incongruence. This confusion causes them to lose trust or check-out.
TIME
The most important thing parents can do is help their children form a coherent narrative—a story that makes sense.
TIME
The political climate shapes our children’s expectations of adult life and leadership—and in 2016, our kids are learning at least three lessons that directly contradict basic principles of social emotional health.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
If Dallas ISD restricts the use of suspension, leaders should adopt three well-researched approaches that have proven successful elsewhere.