Ten Tasks of Adolescent Development

Adolescence designates the teenage years between 13 and 19, and is typically seen as the…

Honor How You Truly Feel

Three weeks left until the end of school — and I can hardly wait! I feel what seems to be a weird mix of emotions:

• relieved (that we’re almost done),
• happy (about what many of my students have accomplished),

The Emotional Tango: Those are Your Feelings, Not Mine — The dancers in ballroom tango initially move across the floor through the flexing of the lower joints (hip, knee, ankle) while the feet are delayed, then the feet move quickly to catch the body, resulting in snatching or striking action that reflects the staccato nature of this style’s…

Resilience: Strategies to Strengthen Young Children

The Emotional Tango: Those are Your Feelings, Not Mine — The dancers in ballroom tango initially move across the floor through the flexing of the lower joints (hip, knee, ankle) while the feet are delayed, then the feet move quickly to catch the body, resulting in snatching or striking action that reflects the staccato nature of this style’s…

Understand that You Don’t Have to Understand

In Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, Meg Murray feels very much alone. She…

The Emotional Tango: Those are Your Feelings, Not Mine — The dancers in ballroom tango initially move across the floor through the flexing of the lower joints (hip, knee, ankle) while the feet are delayed, then the feet move quickly to catch the body, resulting in snatching or striking action that reflects the staccato nature of this style’s…

How it all began: A brief history of Circle Dynamics Group — It was a warm fall day in 2012 when a friend called me and said we were going to go to a high school that day to talk with the students. As it turned out, this was a “last chance” high school and my friend’s idea was to get us, a teacher, and 12 boys to sit in a circle and talk about what…

How it all began: A brief history of Circle Dynamics Group

8 Things to Remember about Child Development

Excellent article from Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child. Remembering these…