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How Can We Turn Our Back?

Posted on30. Mar, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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I was more than deeply disturbed at the story that surfaced months ago about Phoebe Prince, 15, who committed suicide in January due to bullying of epic proportions. Maybe heartbroken, stomach wrenching, sad, horrified that anything could come to this… maybe these feelings more closely approximate my reactions. Yet even these words belie the feelings [...]

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Why Emotional & Social Literacy?

Posted on22. Mar, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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I am calling for a more thorough integrated emotional and social literacy program throughout our schools. If I’m driving the point home too much, it’s because the depth of the human condition and the unspoken code of US vs Them is deep in the human psyche. We see it everywhere. It’s in our homes; the divorce rate [...]

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Teaching Emotional Literacy

Posted on15. Mar, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Here’s 5 things you can do to teach emotional literacy to your students: Read this quote by Aldous Huxley to your students “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving – and that is your own self.” Ask them to write 2 or 3 sentences on what the quote [...]

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Great E-Learning Tool!

Posted on01. Mar, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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I was recently reading Jane’s eLearning Pick of the Day blog and she highlighted a hot e-learning tool for the classroom, Sketchpad.  It got me thinking about how to use computers with the development of emotional and social literacy in our students. I wanted to explictly demonstrate how you can use technology to increase social [...]

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Creating a Culture of Caring

Posted on22. Feb, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Creating a culture of caring is no small task. It takes intention, involvement and attention to detail. It takes commitment and willingness to take risks. You have to be willing to assert yourself, listen to your stakeholders, make mistakes, assess those mistakes and course correct. It’s like climbing a mountain. When you looking up at [...]

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Bullying on the Campus

Posted on19. Feb, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Community is everything. The bullying events that hit the news and glare in our headlines are the tip of the iceberg. For every story we hear, there are a thousand that we don’t. But they have one thing in common; at their very core is a lack of community. As educators, we may think we’re doing [...]

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Transforming Education

Posted on09. Feb, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Tom Peters wrote a post that led to an article in the New York Times on making college more relevant.  The article details 10 new degrees that are being offered at University level, none of which existed three or even two years ago. Some of these new degrees were: Learning to Listen – Narrative medicine [...]

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When Fast is Slow

Posted on03. Feb, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Leadership is about using your head, feeling with your heart and connecting with your team. If you want to build a sustainable organization resilient enough to meet the challenges of change in a timely manner, you have to develop your SQ competencies. Fast is slow when: A team member has an idea and you’re in too much of [...]

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What is SQ?

Posted on27. Jan, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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Given the latest research on the affect that human beings have on each other, SQ may be one of the most important components of student as well as leadership success. SQ is really the quality of our social intelligence. It is how we connect with and relate to others. It is how we invest in, [...]

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What is EQ?

Posted on24. Jan, 2010 by Trinidad Hunt.

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I’ve been saying for 30 years human beings are more than their intellect. To be a human being includes our emotions. EQ is the Quality of our emotions or how we manage our reactions to the events and situations in our lives. Until very recently emotional literacy was not thought to be a part of the [...]

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