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- Complaining About Students is Toxic: 4 Ways to Stop Jun 2019
- A child’s bad behavior isn’t ‘attention-seeking.’ She’s seeking a relationship Jun 2019
- Want Safe Schools? Start With Research-Based School Discipline Policies May 2019
- I’m a Neuroscientist. Here’s How Teachers Change Kids’ Brains Feb 2019
- How to Take SEL to the Next Level at Your School Feb 2019
- Tips to Help Kids with Back to School Anxiety Sept 2018
- Why Teachers Must Fight Their Own Implicit Bias Sept 2018
- Seven Ways You are unknowingly Shaming Your Child July 2018
- Corporal Punishment and Preschoolers: What New Federal Data Show May 2018
- One Ohio School’s Quest to Rethink Bad Behavior May 2018
Rather than enforcing a top-down mandate, the school trains teachers in the science behind trauma and leaves the rest up to them. - Study finds engaging young children in conversation is more important for brain development than “dumping words” on them Feb 2018
- 10 Routines That will Strengthen a Parent Child Relationship Feb 2018
- A New Lens for Understanding Behavior Problems Feb 2018
- How Ending Behavior Rewards Helped One School Focus on Student Motivation and Behavior Oct 2017
- Mind/Shift: What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Social and Emotional Skills’? Sept 2017
- A Positive Start: How to Manage Misbehavior (and reduce teacher stress) by Building the Strong Relationships Preschoolers Need Sept 2017
- Adults Perceive Black Girsl as ‘Less Innocent’ than White Girls: Gerogetown Study Sept 2017
The study finds substantial bias toward Back girls beginning at age five. - Preschoolers and Praise: What Kinds of Messages Help Kids Grow? June 2017
- Be Worried about Boys, Especially baby boys June 2017
- Nonacademic Skills Are the Necessary Foundation for Learning June 2017
- How to Change the Story About Students of Color June 2017
Dena Simmons explores how educators can inadvertently harm students of color—and what we can do to bring out their best. - What Happens to a Woman’s Brain When She Becomes a Mother June 2017
- The One Thing Parents Can Do to Make Mornings Smoother, According to Science June 2017
- Pre-K: Decades Worth of Studies, One Strong Message June 2017
- Hold those babies: Study show early touch has lasting effects on babies June 2017
- What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong? April 2017
Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works. - Should Emotions be Taught in Schools? April 2017
Our unresolved, unacknowledged feelings can lead us into anxiety, arguments and worse. Some educators believe it’s time to give our kids emotional instruction along with their ABCs. - Time’s Up for ‘Timeout’ April 2017
A progressive group of neurology researchers (Tina Bryson and Dan Siegal) wants to redefine “discipline.” Decisions about parenting affect not only children’s minds, but those of adults as well. - Risks of Harm from Spanking Confirmed by Analysis of Five Decades of Research April 2017
- 37 Techniques to Calm an Anxious Child April 2017
- Study Proves that Cuddling Babies early and often Has Huge Benefits April 2017
- Researchers studied kindergarteners’ behavior and followed up 19 years later. Here are the findings February 2017
Every parent wants to see their kid get good grades in school. Bu now we know social success is just as important. - Playground Where Babies Learn to Talk Published: Dec 2016 | Oakland, CA
A campaign (Too Small to Fail: Talk, Read, Sing) to encourage brain development is using parks to deliver its message to children and their caregivers. - Bullying rates remain higher for children with disabilities, even as they mature November 2016
- Study identifies a key to preventing disruptive behavior in preschool classrooms January 2017 | Audrey Breen
- Improving child-teacher interactions can reduce preschoolers’ stress levels December 2016 | Orgeon State University
A school-based intervention that promotes warm and caring interactions between a teacher and child can reduce the child’s stress in the classroom, a new study has found. - Oppositional Defiance or Faulty Neuroception? September 2016 | Mona Delahooke Ph.d
“I view oppositional defiance as a child’s response to stress. Viewing children’s challenging behaviors on a continuum of stress and stress recovery reveals a whole new way to think about this stigmatizing disorder, as well as a new way to support children, informed by neuroscience” - Teaching Your Child Emotional Agility October 2016 | New York Times
Research shows that when teachers help preschoolers learn to manage their feelings in the classroom, those children become better problem solvers when faced with an emotional situation, and are better able to engage in learning tasks. - After Expulsions of Preschoolers, Discipline Study in Nashville Finds Success with Positive Approach September 2016 | Nashville Public Radio
- Bias Isn’t Just a Police Problem, It’s a Preschool Problem NPR September 28, 2016 September 2016 | National Public Radio
- Mind/Shift: The Benefits of Helping Preschoolers Understand and Discuss Their Emotions July 2016
- Mind/Shift: Strategies to Ensure that Introverted Students Feel Valued at School
- Mind/Shift: 20 Tips to Help De-Escalate Interactions with Anxious or Defiant Students
- Notre Dame News: Parent touch, play and support in childhood vital to well-being as an adult
Did you receive affection, play freely and feel supported in childhood? Childhood experiences like these appear to have a lot to do with well-being and moral capacities in adulthood. - Wired for Kindness: Science shows we prefer compassion, and our capacity grows with practice
- Strong Evidence Against Spanking