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14 Feb 2019 The Art of Wonderment: Any educator or parent could recall times when children expressed wonderment about the world around them. However, somewhere along the way...
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31 Jan 2019 We believe...: We believe... Positive Education places wellbeing at the heart of our learning community. For Geelong Grammar School, this week heralds not just...
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19 Dec 2018 The Bane of Busyness: ‘So how are you?’ ‘I’ve been really busy.’ ‘Oh, I know what you mean – me too.’ Being busy has become a form of social currency, and the ...
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4 Dec 2018 The Benefits of Active Constructive Responding: I love watching how young people and adults interact. It’s interesting because the age gap ...
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20 Nov 2018 Four ways to strengthen the help-seeking culture within your school: Imagine for a moment you were asked to ...
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6 Nov 2018 Six tips for self-kindness: Oh the irony! Sitting in front of the computer, trying to write a blog for World Kindness Day, and I catch my internal narrative, “Come on! It’s not d ...
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23 Oct 2018 How mindsets influence learning: Picture a parent-teacher meeting where the teacher is explaining how ‘Charlie’ has been progressing in her schoolwork...
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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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Teens usingTechnology

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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