Articles: November Education Newsletter
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Tag: Hope
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Articles: How to Help Students Develop Hope
By Vicki Zakrzewski | November 6, 2012According to research, hope is key to academic achievement--and it's a skill students can develop over time. Here's how.
Videos and Podcasts: Fostering Optimism and Confidence
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | July 19, 2012Optimists are happier, healthier, and more successful.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Fostering Optimism and Confidence
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | July 19, 2012Optimists are happier, healthier, and more successful
Raising Happiness: Rethinking Optimism
By Christine Carter | May 4, 2011Fostering confidence in children is easier than you think.
Raising Happiness: Podcast: Fostering Optimism and Confidence
By Christine Carter and Rona Renner | May 2, 2011Optimists are happier, healthier, and more successful
Videos and Podcasts: Fostering Optimism and Confidence
By Christine Renner | May 2, 2011Optimists are happier, healthier, and more successful.
Videos and Podcasts: The Power of Gratitude
By Robert Emmons | November 15, 2010Robert Emmons explains how gratitude has the ability to heal, energize, and change our lives.
Raising Happiness: Finding the Good in a Bad Economy (there’s a video, too)
By Christine Carter | August 10, 2009Articles: Book Review: Spiritual Evolution
By Azim Shariff | Fall 2008by George E. Vaillant
Broadway Books, 2008, 228 pages
Articles: The Choice to Forgive
By Fred Luskin | Fall 2004Forgiveness takes practice, says Fred Luskin, but it's a skill almost anyone can learn. He shares his research-tested method for helping people give up their grudges.
Articles: Book Review: The Anatomy of Hope
By Matthew Wheeland | Fall 2004by Jerome Groopman
Random House, 2004, 248 pages
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Five Ways Giving Thanks Can Backfire
April 29, 2013Most of the time, gratitude is good. But research finds that there are situations when "thank you" may be the wrong response.
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How Gratitude Can Help You Through Hard Times
May 13, 2013It's easy to feel grateful when life is good, says Robert Emmons. But when disaster strikes, gratitude is worth the effort.
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Six Tips for Making the Leap to Meaningful Work
May 15, 2013Job satisfaction is at record lows. What does it take to overcome the fear of change, especially in tough economic times?
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How to Think LIke Sherlock Holmes
May 24, 2013These two books give us insights into how brain science can help us understand our nature, improve our lives, and help us empathize with those who may have memory lapses.
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How to Train the Compassionate Brain
May 23, 2013A new study finds that training in compassion makes us more altruistic—and explores the neuroscience behind why.
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2nd International Conference on Positive Psychology: “Giving Hope – Giving Future”
May 22, 2013
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
University of California, Berkeley
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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
The Compassionate Mind
We're angry, fearful, depressed--and we can't help it. Societies that encourage us to compete with each other make it difficult to exercise compassion towards ourselves and others.
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