Research Proven Back-to-School Anxiety and Coping Strategies for Students, School Staff and Family Members
Teaching children about persisting fosters resilience, growth mindset, self-efficacy, emotional regulation, goal-setting, and self-awareness. These skills are essential for promoting positive mental health. Click here for claims based upon research for K-3. Click here for claims based upon research for 4-6. Teaching children about managing impulsivity in elementary school equips them with essential mental health […]
Fall 2021 Opportunity for Early Childhood Classrooms!
In a partnership with Wonder Media Animation, Reflective Educational Research is studying the impacts of WonderGrove videos on students’ social skills, adaptive behaviors, and life skills. Using an experimental research design, this is the first-ever empirical study conducted on the use and impacts of the WonderGrove Social Skills video library in traditional classroom settings. […]
Holiday Reflection as 2020 Comes to a Close
By Art Costa, Allison Zmuda, and Bena Kallick An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity. — Martin Luther King, Jr. 2020 is close to ending and although we have experienced many hardships and losses, we also […]
Gratitude: Sustaining Hope in the Midst of Turmoil
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized through it all, that in the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer; […]
How do we deal with race, pandemic, international conflict, and other contemporary issues?
As we deal with contemporary issues such as race, global pandemic, international conflicts, displacement of people, and climate change, the need for redefining civility becomes all the more apparent and urgent. Civility must always be considered in the context of the moment. It is always a moving aspiration as it is influenced by present […]
How to Develop Habits for Success: Q&A with Ajay Mathur
Listen in on this Q&A on the Being Yourself channel with Ajay Mathur. It is like taking a mini-course in Habits of Mind! Interview Timeline: 00:00 Teaser 00:50 Introduction to the show and guest Bena Kallick 02:28 Bena’s inspiration to get into education from psychology 07:35 What role psychology plays in […]
Reflecting About the Internal Chatter: Thinking About Your Thinking
The world right now feels exhausting and unpredictable. There are so many interrelated and complex issues that have incredibly high stakes in our day-to-day lives personally, locally, and globally. How we behave and connect with the world in light of this depends on our outlook and our thinking. If there ever was a time […]
WonderGrove Animated Lessons: Wash Your Hands, Cover Your Mouth
With the spread of Covid-19, good hygiene habits are of utmost importance. To help teach those habits, WonderGrove is offering two free animated lessons to share with your Pre-K to 2nd grade classrooms to encourage students to “wash their hands” and “cover their mouths when they cough.” When WonderGrove animated characters wash their […]
Succeeding with Habits of Mind Blog
James Anderson first became interested in how to teach students to become better thinkers as a classroom teacher in the late ’90s. Later, as a school leader, he spearheaded a national research project focused on infusing Art Costa and Bena Kallick’s Habits of Mind into schools and classrooms. The key finding of this project […]
Join The Habits Of Mind 25th Anniversary Time Capsule Celebration!
Imagine, Create, Celebrate! How? Send your flash drive with submissions from your students to go into the time capsule. Show them the Maria video to get them excited. When and Where? Take off will be at ASCD Empower18 (you can make this a hot link to the website), Sunday, March 25 at 10 AM . […]
Join a Virtual Tour of Geraldine Kindergarten
Join a Virtual Tour of Geraldine District Free Kindergarten Association – a Habits of Mind Certified School!
Join a Virtual Tour of Montecito Union Public Schools
Allison Zmuda and Bena Kallick webinar on their new book Students at the Center: Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind
Students at the Center: Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind with Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda Watch the on demand archive presentation and download handouts by clicking the link below and entering the requested registration information. If you had previously registered for the webinar, select “Already Registered?” and enter your e-mail address. Watch now […]
January 17th, 2016 – Webinar: Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind
*Webinar: Students at the Center: * *Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind * Currently, personalized learning is seen as a large umbrella under which many practices fit, each designed to accelerate student learning by tailoring instruction to individuals’ needs and skills as they fulfill curricular requirements. We must create the conditions for all educators […]
Leading Personalizing Learning: ASCD CEL 2016 Reflection
By Allison Zmuda Bena Kallick and I presented to a few hundred educators on leading personalized learning with Habits of Mind (HOM). As we canvased the room to find out who was there, I was thrilled to see a group of educators from Newtown, Conn. where I started my teaching career. The opportunities I […]
Animating All Students
Gregory van Zuyen reports on the way Terry Thoren and Rudy Verbeeck are using cartoons to help teach language skills and learning habits in class One of the many challenges facing educators at this time of year is getting students back into the right behavioral mode for learning. It’s natural for students to slip […]
