Stories for... Educators
Articles: Framed!
By Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton | Summer 2008Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton argues that we must look to our prejudices, not our genes, to explain achievement gaps.
Articles: Mix It Up!
By Jennifer Holladay | Summer 2008Despite some progress, racism is still pervasive in American schools, reports Jennifer Holladay. Here’s what schools can do to promote tolerance and equality.
Articles: With Friends Like These
By Marjorie Taylor, Alison b. Shawber | Spring 2008It’s normal and healthy for children to have imaginary friends, explain Marjorie Taylor and Alison B. Shawber. But what do these friends say about the children who create them?
Articles: Can We Play?
By David Elkind | Spring 2008Play is essential to positive human development, but kids are playing less and less, says psychologist David Elkind. What can we do to build a new culture of play?
Articles: Book Review: The Path to Purpose
By Dawn Friedman | Spring 2008The Path to Purpose: Helping our children find their calling in life
By William Damon
Free Press, 2008, 240 pages
Articles: The Wild Ones
By Howard P. Chudacoff | Spring 2008Throughout American history, adults have tried to control children’s play. But Howard P. Chudacoff argues that in the end, the kids will always win.
Articles: From the Editors: Spring 08
By Dacher Keltner, Jason Marsh, Jeremy Adam Smith | Spring 2008
Articles: Playing the Blame Game
By Jeremy Adam Smith | Spring 2008Video games stand accused of causing obesity, violence, and lousy grades. But new research paints a surprisingly complicated and positive picture, reports Jeremy Adam smith.
Articles: Playing with Power
By Jason Marsh | Winter 2007-08Jason Marsh reflects on an educational classic.
Articles: Stop! Calm Down! Think!
By Dawn Friedman | Winter 2007-08The Second Step program has helped nine million kids understand and manage their emotions—and research shows that it’s leading to kinder, smarter schools says Dawn Friedman
Articles: Does Sleeping Well Make Us More Socially Adept?
By Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas | Winter 2007-08Articles: Binuclear Family
By Ruth Bettelheim | Fall 2007Divorce is painful for children, but Ruth Bettelheim urges us to see what kids can gain when one family becomes two.
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Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense
April 15, 2013Emma Seppala explains how compassionate workplaces are good for employee health and the corporate bottom line.
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How to be a Happy Working Dad, Part One
March 27, 2013A new report finds that fitting work with family isn't just a women's issue. Jeremy Adam Smith offers 10 tips for helping fathers to navigate a changing landscape at home and on the job.
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When Getting Angry Makes You Happy
April 2, 2013A new study shows how seeking happiness at the right time may be more important than seeking happiness all the time.
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Why Lent Makes People Happy (and Netflix Doesn’t)
March 21, 2013New research suggests that cutting back on life’s pleasures helps us enjoy them significantly more.
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‘Free the Mind’ film
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Free the Mind: Hope after Trauma
May 17, 2013A new documentary reveals the power of mindfulness and neuroplasticity. Bay Area residents can catch a screening tonight at Stanford University.
Greater Good Events
Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
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University of California, Berkeley
Clark Kerr Campus
Friday, June 28 - Wednesday, July 3, 2013
The GGSC’s six-day Summer Institute will equip educators with social-emotional learning tools that will benefit both students and teachers. Registration is now closed.
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"Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior"
Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
- "Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review"
Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
- "From Jerusalem to Jericho"
This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
- Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, runs a state-of-the-art neuroscience...
- Northeast Foundation for Children
Northeast Foundation for Children is a non-profit educational organization that offers educators the Responsive Classroom...
- Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Based at the University of Michigan Business School, this is a networking community for researchers and practitioners...
Book of the Week
Why We Cooperate
Nature and nurture interact to inform, and reform, cooperative behavior. Infants and apes are both able to share, but only the two-year-old will pick up that thing you dropped in front of her.
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