Bringing Positive Education to your bookshelf
Neil Porter and Dr Helen Street are helping you take home a little piece of Positive Schools 2014. Better than OK: helping young people…
Positive Social Behaviour
Parents, Kids & Online/Offline Sex: Time to Panic?
Too often the headlines about sexuality and sexualisation, sexting and pornography are presented along a “for or against” continuum. We read stories that titillate…
Optimism helps females achieve higher grades – males score lower when overconfident — BGU study
BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL — Female students who were more optimistic achieved significantly higher grades than their less optimistic peers, according to a new study by…
High-fliers at risk of isolation and depression from internet addiction
Over-achievers are at risk of becoming addicted to the internet because of the pressure they put on themselves to continue working outside of office…
Conflicting Bodies By Dr Helen Street
If young people can be helped to understand why the burger looks so dam good in the picture (and incidentally nothing like the real…
Teaching girls By Andrew Fuller
Girl Smarts The variability between girls can challenge teachers. This variability is often concealed, as girls often like to highlight their similarities with…
Bullying interventions. By Ken Rigby
Bullying in school is universal and a range of methods aimed at tackling the problem has been developed. But which ones are most effective,…
Conversations with Families about Student Behaviour. By Sue Roffey
When student behaviour is hard to manage in the classroom schools often want to ‘talk to the parents’. There is however, very little guidance…