Tag: education
IMPACT OF STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM IN STUDENTS’ LIVES
Studying abroad changes the lives of college students.
The Pepin Academies: Unprecedented Opportunities for Exceptional Children
By: Bailey Foster Confusion, frustration, loneliness and helplessness. These are feelings that many children with learning disabilities experience on a daily basis. Most of these children are unable to keep up with their peers, and limited social skills can leave them with the constant sense of being misunderstood or left behind. The Pepin Academies in [...]
CODA Children Of Deaf Adults: One Woman – Three Cultures
My name is Liysa Callsen. I am one woman with three cultures, and I live them daily. I bounce among the worlds of the hearing, the deaf and CODA. For those not familiar, CODA means children of deaf adults, and specifically refers to hearing children of deaf parents. For me, CODA has a deeper meaning. It helped to define me…the true ME at my core.
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer – Put On Your Pink Bra!
By: Samantha Palmer On Tuesday evening, I attended the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer [early registration] party in St Petersburg. What a wonderful event put on by the American Cancer Society. The room was so beautifully decorated in pink, the international symbolic color of the ribbon associated with breast cancer awareness. There was such a [...]
Education – Video Gallery
In order to focus on positive, creative learning and exploration, schools, teachers and learning mentors are developing new systems all the time as examples of alternative educational models. In combination with traditional learning, these new methods take advantage of our natural and varied learning abilities and styles. In this Positive Impact Magazine video gallery, you will find [...]
Education: A Tribute To Teachers
“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.” – Colleen Wilcox As we prepare our children for their first years of school we hope to send them off to a teacher who will take them under their wing, nurture them, teach them and guide them. A teacher who will not talk down to them but treat [...]
Reframing Schools: Positively Educational
By: Jenna Sage – Blog #2 My article about Positive Behavior Supports (PBS) describes an educational process of data-based decision making, teaching, and rewarding appropriate behavior. As a student who struggled through school I know the importance of focusing on what is right instead of what is wrong. PBS helps educators to change the way [...]
Reframing Schools: Using a Positive Behavior Support Process
By: Jenna Sage The Canvas Those schools are engaged in a systemic overhaul of the way schools respond to challenging behaviors. Positive Behavior Supports (PBS – sometimes referred to as PBIS, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) is a process that incorporates effective school-based practices to teach appropriate behaviors, reinforce those behaviors, and work toward an [...]
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