Articles: May Education Newsletter
By Vicki Zakrzewski | May 14, 2013With the re-introduction of Congressman Tim Ryan's social-emotional learning bill, our May newsletter focuses on the wide-ranging benefits of SEL skills for students.
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Articles: How to Reduce Violence after School Closures
By Vicki Zakrzewski, Trinh T. Tran, Jason Marsh | April 23, 2013Plans to close public schools are raising concerns about student safety in several major cities. But if the cities heed lessons from social science, they may be able to keep a difficult situation from getting even worse.
Articles: How to Foster Gratitude in Schools
By Jeffrey Froh, Giacomo Bono | November 20, 2012When students are thankful, they feel more connected to their schools and teachers, explain researchers Jeffrey J. Froh and Giacomo Bono.
Articles: Do We Care for Our Teachers?
By Vicki Zakrzewski | October 23, 2012To create a caring school community, research tells us that care must be extended to everyone.
Articles: Bully: The Movie Every Teacher and Student Needs to See
By Jeremy Adam Smith | April 18, 2012The new documentary Bully tells the stories of five bullied kids—and says what we can do to help them.
Articles: Can Restorative Justice Keep Schools Safe?
By Jeremy Adam Smith | March 6, 2012How one big-city district cut suspensions and expulsions—and why they may rise again.
Articles: Can Parents Teach Peace?
By Carmen Sobczak | November 2, 2011A recent study suggests they can, at least some of the time.
Raising Happiness: The Power of the Compassionate Imagination
By Christine Carter | October 31, 2011Most...
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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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‘Free the Mind’ film
May 17, 2013 -
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.
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The International Summit Conference on Compassionate Organizations
May 16, 2013
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Greater Good Summer Institute for Educators
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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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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...
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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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