Harvard Spotlights WINGS Use of Performance Management Data

Harvard Spotlights WINGS Use of Performance Management Data

May 20, 2010
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Submitted by: Paula Schwed

Sharing what we've learned is part of our work at WINGS. So we're pleased that Harvard published CEO Ginny Deerin's account of how WINGS uses a continuous stream of performance management data to improve our program model.

Keeping it Real: Navigating School Statistics

Keeping it Real: Navigating School Statistics

May 18, 2010
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Submitted by: Paula Schwed

What a clear and understandable way to keep parents informed about what's going on in their kids' school! This website called Schoolscope in England crunches the numbers, the report cards, the surveys - and gives you a succinct rundown at a glance. It can be so confusing to dig through the statistics to get a clear understanding. This isn't all the information we need - but it's a great place to start.

A Day to Raise Awareness About Emotional Well-Being

A Day to Raise Awareness About Emotional Well-Being

May 06, 2010
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Submitted by: Ginny Deerin

It's National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day! One of the goals - to nurture the social and emotional well-being of all children from birth. Day in and day out, all year long, since 1996, WINGS has been working to advance social and emotional education, and teaching kids these skills so crucial to success and happiness. 

Learn more about teaching social skills to children, Mental Health Awareness Day

All the Feelings That Make Us Human

All the Feelings That Make Us Human

May 04, 2010
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Submitted by: Ginny Deerin

Take a peek at this digital portrait of the collective emotional landscape created by two whiz kids Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar who sift through blog posts for feeling words – more than 12 million feelings since 2005. Their book about the experiment is newly published, called We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion. It contains the euphoria, the despair, the passion, the dreams, and the desires that make us human.