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Mental health in the classroom…

Screen shot from TeenMentalHealth.org With the latest research telling us that the number of young people aged 15-16 with depression has nearly doubled over the last twenty years, it’s more important than ever for us to be addressing it in our health

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Meditation for the middle school set…

Last year, after learning about the powerful impact meditation was having on middle school students in San Francisco, we decided to give it a try in our Health classes. Since we don’t have the time to implement the full Quiet Time

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The bright side of stress…

  “When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.” – Dr. Kelly McGonigal  We’ve learned, over the last ten years or so, that with many of our content areas in Health –

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In defense of Health education…

In today’s Education Week Blog, there was a great post on the importance of social and emotional education in schools. Namely, the disconnect between how important most teachers think it is, and how little of it we’re actually doing. Here’s

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