How to Teach Teens About the Importance of Failure | Choices Ideabook

Editor’s note: It’s hard to accept, but failure might actually be good for you. Choices teacher-advisor Amy Lauren Smith—a sixth to eighth grade health teacher at the Shanghai American School in Shanghai, China, and the brilliant mind behind our Teacher’s Guide each month—explains how she helped her students understand this important lesson.

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Parents

Resources for parents are plentiful, and I’ll include any I come across that I think could be of use. Click here for some helpful parent

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Hopefully most of you know that smoking is bad. I don’t think this is going to come as a shock. You shouldn’t do it. And

Today’s Health Class

What makes an effective Health curriculum? Check out this article from the CDC… it very clearly breaks down the characteristics of an up-to-date Health class,