Do young children learn from adults they don’t like?
One of the questions I hear most often from teacher candidates, in-service teachers, and early childhood educators is, “what is the one thing I can do as a teacher that will make the biggest [...]
A New Zealand Narrative
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to attend and share at a three day conference in Toronto in May 2018. The conference was centred around Stuart Shanker’s seminal research on the [...]
The Gift of “Soft Eyes”
It was mid-December and I was in line at the supermarket. The young woman in front of me had a beautiful green wreath in her cart and an active little boy by her side. As she handed her money to [...]
Taking Time: Yoga and Self-Regulation
I recently had the opportunity to attend the PureAction 2018 conference in Austin, TX. The PureAction conference focused on research of the various types of yoga (e.g., Bikram, Vinyasa) and [...]