by Ben Springer, PhD | Oct 30, 2018 | Behavior Management, Mental Health, Parent Training, Professional Development
Ah, the modern age of parenting and being an educator: “How much privacy do we actually grant our children and our students in the cyber-age (is that even a thing anymore? I dunno…)” It’s a solid, serious, and strangely important question that...
by Brian King | Sep 14, 2018 | Behavior Management, Mental Health, Professional Development
“I don’t have time for behavior.” This is a phrase I heard often as a behavior specialist. Behavioral issues can take up a lot of instructional time, and the truth of the matter is that classroom management systems take time to implement. So, at...
by Ben Springer, PhD | Aug 9, 2018 | Behavior Management, Mental Health, Professional Development
About a year ago, every night, I put together a solid three-month stretch of reading Maurice Sendak’s classic “Where The Wild Things Are” to my youngest. It was the only book she’d let me read to her for a while. I didn’t mind it at all. I love that book. Always...
by Ben Springer, PhD | May 24, 2018 | Mental Health, Professional Development
The title “teacher” means a lot to me. My mom and dad were both life long educators. My mom taught English for over 40 years. Seriously. Think about that for a second. Some of my earliest memories were playing in her classroom and snooping around all her amazing...
by Ben Belnap, PhD | Feb 19, 2018 | Mental Health
No one really knows when the first version of “The Trolley Dilemma” appeared in text or college courses in ethics and psychology. Though some trace it back to the turn of the 20th century, in the 1960’s, Phillipa Foot is credited with the most widely recognized...
by Ben Springer, PhD | Jan 23, 2018 | Mental Health, Parent Training
Calling all parents! (And, honestly, anybody that will listen and read about this topic!) There are a ton of things educators are asked to do every day when it comes to working with children. Amazingly, educators accomplish most of what they are asked to do with good...
