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5 Oct 2018 World Mental Health Day at GGS: In the late 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, the US Army War College began using the acronym VUCA to describe ...
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17 Sep 2018 The Fertile Soil – Positive Learning Environments: A boy of 13 walks into his Year 7 classroom at the start of Term 1. He is at a new school, eager to please and optimistic about what he can achieve...
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3 Sep 2018 Compassion is the radicalism of our time: Compassion – that feeling of distress at the suffering of others that is combined with the desire to alleviate it – is in short supply in the world to ...
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17 Aug 2018 Fostering a Sense of Purpose in Young People: What is the purpose of Positive Education? Many of us would likely respond that by adopting Positive Education in our own school environment, we ...
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10 Aug 2018 Technology and the Teenage Brain: What do we know about technology and teens? The answer is less straightforward than it might seem. When the issue of teens and technology is ...
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20 Jul 2018 The Four Facts of Friendships: Friendships are central to our students’ lives and are among the most important relationships they experience, in school and beyond. When children fac ...
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3 Jul 2018 Research: The Tortoise of Positive Education: In a field as exciting as Positive Education, research can seem, at times, a little dull. Amongst the ambitious goals to raise the wellbeing of the c ...
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14 Jun 2018 Teaching Pos Ed: The banal and the profound: t was at the very beginning – in my opening remarks – of a Discovering Positive Education course last month that I shared a thought that I had never r ...
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8 Jun 2018 Humanity in the Workplace: Each term at Geelong Grammar School, the Institute of Positive Education runs professional learning sessions for all teaching and non-teaching staff a ...
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28 May 2018 Positive Education at Home: We hope that the concepts taught in Positive Education will travel with our students – and teachers – long after they leave the classroom. By applying ...
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3 May 2018 Top 10 Tips for a Quality Wellbeing Curriculum: Over the past few weeks, many teachers have spent hours planning, writing, ruminating and creating, in preparation for the beginning of another busy t ...
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17 Apr 2018 Connect: A reflection on the 4th Annual PESA Conference held at Geelong Grammar School.
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