Building Cohesion with Context and Concrete by Dr Helen Street
Whenever I have friends to dinner, especially those who don’t know me very well, I tidy up before they arrive. It sometimes seems ironic…
Rewards & Punishment
Floating balloons, noisy buses and doughnuts in space. by Dr Helen Street
Whether talking about ‘being as quiet as a mouse’ or ‘as busy as a bee’, we all use metaphors to help us describe and…
Communication Secrets for Exceptional Learning By Maggie Dent
Daniel Goleman’s quote from his bestselling book, Emotional Intelligence, is so true: “Happy, calm children learn best.” Safe classroom cultures with teachers who form…
Time for a Break by Dr Helen Street
There was much talk, and indeed much trying out, of brain breaks at the Australian Positive Schools conference series this year. I talked about…
A Meditation on Mindfulness by Dr Helen Street
If school based wellbeing has a fashion, then this season’s choice is most certainly ‘the mindfulness program’. After all, isn’t mindfulness at the cutting…
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AN AFTERNOON WITH HELEN STREET & A DAY WITH ALFIE KOHN
AN AFTERNOON WITH HELEN STREET The importance of developing social cohesion in classrooms and school communities It…
Annual Positive Schools International Singapore wellbeing and positive education conference 2016
Registrations are now open and filling for this year’s Positive Schools Singapore wellbeing and positive education conference. The Positive Schools conference series has been…
Classroom Glue and No Rewards: Reflections on Positive Schools By Justin Robinson & David Bott Geelong Grammar School Institute of Positive Education
Over the past decade, there have been significant changes in the attitudes and practices around wellbeing programs in Australian Schools. Two people who have…
The Risks of Rewards By Alfie Kohn
Many educators are acutely aware that punishment and threats are counterproductive. Making children suffer…