Willpower - Start with Self-Awareness
Willpower - Start with Self-Awareness
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New article in the Wall Street Journal by Johah Lehrer about willpower and the wisdom of pacing yourself on your good intentions of changing behavior. The best place to start is self-awareness - one of of the five basic social and emotional skills.
Willpower, like a bicep, can only exert itself so long before it gives out; it's an extremely limited mental resource.
New Legislation Signals "Pivotal Moment" for Social/Emotional Learning
New Legislation Signals "Pivotal Moment" for Social/Emotional Learning
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New legislation has just been introduced in the U.S. House to establish a national training center for social and emotional learning and provide grants to states and school districts to implement SEL programs. Jennifer Buffett, president of the NoVo Foundation, called it a "pivotal moment" and a "major step" that underlines that the Movement to advance social and emotional learning is gaining national momentum. Rep.
Center for Social and Emotional Education Spotlights WINGS Strategies
Center for Social and Emotional Education Spotlights WINGS Strategies
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The influential Center for Social and Emotional Education in New York focused its latest newsletter and a blog post on the vital issue of school connectedness. Strengthening kids' connection to school is the highly desirable outcome of improving their social and emotional skills, and WINGS CEO Ginny Deerin gave CSEE her list of 8 activities that foster these emotional bonds.
Powerful Lesson in Emotional Intelligence from Jenny Sanford
Powerful Lesson in Emotional Intelligence from Jenny Sanford
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Barbara Walters and the rest of us got a powerful lesson in how emotional intelligence sustains us in tough times when Jenny Sanford, the wife of South Carolina's governor was interviewed for the ABC-TV special on the year's most fascinating people.
Study Shows Loneliness Spreads Farther Than You Think
Study Shows Loneliness Spreads Farther Than You Think
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LIke a bad cold, loneliness can spread among groups of people, according to some fascinating new research. A study published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reported that a person's loneliness depends not just on whether his friend is also lonely but on his friend's friend, and his friend's friend's friend! It's a valuable reminder that establishing and maintaining healthy and rewarding relationships pays off not just for the individual but for everyone he knows!
Really Make it Count This Giving Season
Really Make it Count This Giving Season
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With the season of giving upon us, and recession woes continuing, influential blogger Tim Ogden of Philanthropy Action says it's crucial to make philanthropic dollars go further by maximizing impact through high-performing nonprofits.
"It's more important than ever before to make those charitable dollars go further by putting them in the hands of charities that do the most good," Ogden says.
