“I want my students to be stressed out and unhappy at school” said no teacher or administrator ever. But despite good intentions, it is the sad reality that school is sometimes more stressful and more isolating for kids than we’d like. And these non-physical sources of pain can obstruct learning just as much as the physical ones, especially […]
Positive Psychology
Using Our Brains to Beat Our Biases (Part 2)
Imagine a “rocket scientist”, and then take a moment to see if the picture in your head corresponds to a stereotype? What if every time someone said ‘rocket scientist’ your brain had to sift through a number of possible images that would fit with that description? If it was being exhaustive, your brain would pull out each […]