Tag: Mental Health
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The Stress Kettle
Stress is kind of like a tea kettle.The water is our resources. The heat is stress. There are many days where the heat never even gets turned on and our well of resources remains stable. Some days the heat is on low and only for a short time – pretty easy to handle.Other days the […]
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The Class of 2030, What Skills Will They Need?
The biggest challenges students in kindergarten right now will face when they graduate is a rapidly changing work environment so being flexible is essential, and flexibility requires confidence. Confidence is the by-product of strong emotional intelligence and it will be necessary to successfully navigate the work-world of the future. Social-emotional intelligence ensures students are self […]
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#OneWord2019
I have been considering what word would best encapsulate my goals for 2019 for quite some time now, and one evening during Christmas break, as I sat contentedly knitting a shawl from Norwegian yarn brought to me as a gift from a friend, I had an epiphany. My word was right in front of me […]
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Thoughts on Seven Fallen Feathers Part 2
Hurting from the Before Mental Health and wellness supports need improvement throughout the province overall. Stigma, lack of education, long waiting lists and “band aid” solutions – including lip service without the necessary backing – riddle positive progress. The situation in Indigenous communities as shown through this chapter are even more abysmal. Isolation may be […]
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Tweak It!
Katie Martin’s thoughts on tweaking learning experiences and the way we do things resonated with me this week, particularly as I am in the midst of doing just that. A couple years ago I asked my grade 11 English students what could be improved or changed in the course. What did they love? What impacted […]
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Will you play with me?
The cry of every child rings in our ears bringing sweet remembrances of days long past when we too eagerly ran out to play with our friends. But times change, we grow older, and we don’t play so much anymore. Unfortunately, a decline in play doesn’t only happen because we get older. In the last […]