Resilience Lessons from Anchovies
When this video came across my Facebook feed, I was mesmerized. Such beautiful images, but an even more powerful message. Our reading of Onward…
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Finding Happiness to Overcome Negativity Bias
Earlier this month we explored Why It’s Hard to Focus on the Bright Spots and looked at the role of our brains’s wiring, more…
Why Is It Hard to Focus on the Bright Spots?
We have shared the research on the benefits of a strengths-based approach and actually we have spent all month on the habit for this…
Taking a Strengths-Based Approach in Our Schools
Why is it that we become so aware of the things that we cannot do and lose sight of the things that we can…
A Dive into Sadness
We cannot see the bright spots if we cannot also see the bleak moments. – Elena Aguilar, Onward Chapter 7 If you haven’t started…
Disposition: Empowerment
You control your story. Imagine if you could erase your regrets. What would you do with your life now? What’s your biggest regret? What…
Engage in Appreciative Inquiry
In Chapter 7 of Onward, Elena shares 5 practices to train your brain and direct your mind and emotions to focus on the bright…
Seeing Every Child as a Bright Spot
This video gets me every time I watch it. My hope is that all students are seen for their strengths. We, as educators, need…
Start Off With What is Working
As we start this month with the December habit: Focus on the Bright Spots, here is a little motivation for focusing on this habit:…
What Actually Happens to Your Brain When You Exercise?
As we end this month of focusing on self-care, here is one last push for the benefits of exercise. As Elena shares in Chapter…