How Did You Grow and Change This School Year?
The 2022-23 academic year is coming to a close, and we’ve created a post describing 10 ways to reflect on these last months and learn from them. But the 10 ways aren’t just for students — we also hope teachers can benefit from them. In fact, we would be delighted if teachers and students did…
If You Could Change the Laws of Nature, What Would You Change?
Would you want to be able to time travel? To be in two places at once? To predict whether someone would laugh at your joke? Share your wildest ideas.
5 Ways to Change Your Life Today
Not entirely happy with the path your life is taking? It’s never too late to shake things up and change the direction your life is going in. Here are our top 5 tips to getting the life you really want. 1. Change Your Thinking – Change Your Life It’s easy to see life’s challenges as…
Lesson of the Day: ‘Why Do We Change the Clocks, Anyway?’
Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Why Do We Change the Clocks, Anyway?” by Alan YuhasOn Tuesday, the United States Senate passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent. If the bill is approved by the House and signed by President Biden, the change would go into effect in 2023.Do you get annoyed by the twice-yearly time…
Changing Careers During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Today’s post is going to be a little more personal. I will take you on a journey of changing careers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. I changed my career rather drastically, and by doing so changed my life drastically, and you can do the same through free online learning with Alison. Making the change is something…
A Time of Challenge and Change: Writing Prompts to Help You Reflect
As part of the suite of resources we’re creating to help students document and reflect on their lives, we’ve rounded up a list we hope can provide instant inspiration. Here is a selection of Student Opinion questions we’ve posed on our site since the pandemic first began to shut down schools in early 2020. We…
What Are You Doing to Change Your School?
Find all our Student Opinion questions here.What are things that you think your school does well? What makes you proud of your school and school community? Are there classes, teachers, clubs or events that make you feel connected to your school?On the flip side, what are things that you think your school could do better?…
Compassion in Action: Humanizing Politics and Inspiring Global Change
I invite students to reflect on their own levels of self-compassion, and then debate the merits of the advice: “Before you can help others, you must first help yourself.” They usually come to the consensus that humans project their pain onto others and that this reflective work is key to imagining a holistic inner-outer peace…
A Change in the Menu
The nutritional benefits of eating bugs are serviceable and can be instrumental in combating childhood mortality, and malnutrition rates. Monica Aiyeko of the Food and Agriculture department at Bondo University College has studied and published the effects of integrating native crickets into school meal programs in Kenya. Her studies have found that roughly 30% of…
Do You Like Your First Name? Would You Change It if You Could?
What’s your favorite first name? Is it the name you have? Would you like it to be? Have you ever used a name that is different from the one your family gave you? Or experimented with the spelling or pronunciation of your name? In “Why Not Let Children Choose Their Own Names?” Danielle Braff writes:…
