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Friendship: The Unsinkable Ship

"You can sail anywhere with a friend" - Andrew Jackson. Friendship is an interpersonal relationship that creates the positive emotions and cultivates the positive strengths that promote intrapersonal...

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Friendship: The Key to Happiness

"The connections made in the course of life - maybe that’s what heaven is." - Fred Rogers. Mr. Rogers and Aristotle are happiness philosophers who know true friends are the key to happiness. Does the...

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Meaningful Learning

"Education is not the filling a bucket but the lighting of a fire." - Yeats. To light a fire, the teacher must fill the school bucket with meaningful learning. read more

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Finding Your Purpose

“Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.” A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh). Using a bubble sheet to mark the one correct answer on a multiple-choice test does...

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Achievement vs Accomplishment

“To the uneducated, an ‘A’ is just three sticks.” - A. L. Milne (Winnie the Pooh). A generation of students has graduated in the era of high stakes tests and factory schools. This reform generation is...

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The Recipe for Positive Psychology

"Knowledge is love and light and vision." - Helen Keller. The recipe for positive psychology is one that is worth knowing. Teachers find it quickly becomes a favorite with everyone. There are five key...

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The Art of Positive Psychology

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” - Mark Van Doren. The art of positive psychology is learning not to teach by the book only. The art of positive psychology is learning to teach...

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The Science of Positive Psychology

"Happiness is a choice. Choose happy!" - Yoda. USA Girl Scouts invited Martin E.P. Seligman to design a “Science of Happiness” badge to celebrate their 100th anniversary. To earn the badge, young...

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The Positive Psychology of Grief

“Grief fills the room of my absent child up, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.” – William Shakespeare. Can positive psychology teach us anything...

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Five Positive Psychology Resolutions for the New Year

"Write it on your heart that everyday is the best day of the year."– Emerson. There are so many resolutions that are hard to keep. We make promises to ourselves and then break them. Can resolutions...

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Positive Psychology and the Action Teacher

"Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson. Do you have a special lesson that you use to increase emotional awareness or strengths in your classroom? Have you created a service learning...

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Five Gifts from a Grateful Heart

"The deepest craving of human nature is the desire to be appreciated."– William James. One of the core correlates of positive psychology is gratitude. Recent research suggests it is good for the heart...

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Five More Gifts of Gratitude

"One looks back with appreciation to brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. Curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element ..." -...

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The Positive Psychology of Kindness

Kindness in words creates confidence." Lao Tzu. Tomorrow is random kindness day. However, kindness should be explicitly taught every day and it should be taught systematically and purposefully...

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Positive Psychology Promotes Civility

"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are." -- Plato. The most noble duty of the public school is to teach civics. Teach students to engage in democracy using signature strengths...

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The Positive Psychology of the Movies

"Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world." - Ang Lee. The story of movies is the story of shared feelings. The best films evoke joy, fear, nostalgia, empathy, and every other human...

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Positive Psychology and the Learning Virtues

“It might be possible to champion other moral/academic codes to boost motivation in places where it is absent.” – David Brooks. A New York Times article extolls the “learning virtues” and gives reason...

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Positive Psychology in the Elementary School Classroom

"A good book has no ending." - Robert Frost. If teachers expand, extend, and elaborate the fundamental principles and practice of positive psychology, there is no end to the potential for positive...

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The Positive Psychology of Empathy

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.” - Walt Whitman. The opposite of bullying is empathy. If you walk in their shoes you feel the blisters on their...

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Optimism: The Luck of the Irish

“May good luck be a friend in all you do and trouble a stranger to you.” – Irish Blessing. The music, the toasts, the blessings…even the wakes…are a testimony to an optimistic view of life. What can...

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