Articles: How to Help Students Feel Powerful at School
By Amy L. Eva | February 22, 2017Educators can exert power over students—or they can create an environment where students feel energized and capable themselves.
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Articles: Our Best Education Articles of 2016
By Jeremy Adam Smith | January 2, 2017During the past year, Greater Good published a lot of exciting articles about teaching and schools. Here are some of the best.
Articles: How to Stop the Culture of Complaining in Schools
By Owen Griffith | November 4, 2016Fourth-grade teacher Owen Griffith offers practical ways to turn schools and classrooms into no-complaint zones.
Articles: How to Teach Happiness at School
By Ilona Boniwell | October 6, 2016We can teach students crucial skills of well-being without overhauling the curriculum, Ilona Boniwell explains.
Articles: Kids Need More Than Just Brains to Succeed
By Jill Suttie | July 12, 2016A conversation with Paul Tough about his new book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.
Articles: Teachers Can Reduce Suspensions by Practicing Empathy
By Mariah Flynn | May 26, 2016According to a new study, considering students' perspectives cuts suspension rates in half and improves student-teacher relationships.
Articles: How Teachers Can Help Students Who Fail in Class to Succeed at Life
By Mark Katz | May 24, 2016There are people who got bad grades but grew up to be successful adults, says Mark Katz. What’s their secret—and how can schools help?
Articles: Three Ways to Make a Teacher Feel Appreciated
By Jeremy Adam Smith | May 2, 2016Teacher Appreciation Week is here, not a moment too soon. How can parents and students help teachers to see their own strengths?
Articles: Free Your Mind and Your School Might Follow
By Jay Turner | July 20, 2015A moving account of the lessons one teacher took back from our Summer Institute for Educators.
Articles: Five Ways for Teachers to Recharge This Summer
By Emily Campbell | June 17, 2015Another school year is over. And just in time, here are activities from our new web resource to help teachers make the most of summer.
Articles: Should Student Success Include Happiness?
By Vicki Zakrzewski, Peter Brunn | May 25, 2015If we want our students to become happy adults, research suggests that schools should focus more on students' well-being than academic success.
Articles: Why Teachers Are More Likely to Punish Black Students
By Jeremy Adam Smith | May 7, 2015A new study shows that teachers of all races are more likely to punish black students. Fortunately, research also points to solutions.
Articles: How SEL and Mindfulness Can Work Together
By Linda Lantieri, Vicki Zakrzewski | April 7, 2015When taught together, social-emotional learning and mindfulness can have even greater impact on both individuals and the world around us.
Articles: Social-Emotional Learning: Why Now?
By Vicki Zakrzewski | January 7, 2015Our new and deeper understanding of human development is reshaping how we think about education.
Articles: How Social-Emotional Learning Transforms Classrooms
By Vicki Zakrzewski | September 16, 2014SEL doesn't just change the teaching—it changes the teachers and the students. Here are their stories.
Articles: Mindfulness in Education Research Highlights
By Emily Campbell | September 16, 2014An annotated bibliography of studies of mindfulness in education.
Articles: Exploring the Science of Social-Emotional Learning
By Vicki Zakrzewski | August 18, 2014Our Summer Institute for Educators brought together almost 100 people from all over the world—to study, play, and connect with others who are striving to make a difference in students’ lives.
Articles: A New Model of School Reform
By Vicki Zakrzewski | May 21, 2014Oakland Unified is transforming its schools by embedding social-emotional learning into the district culture—one adult at a time.
Articles: The Neuroscience of Good Coaching
By Marshall Moore | February 18, 2014New research suggests how to coach—and be coached—more effectively.
Articles: The Science of Social-Emotional Learning in Action
By Emily Campbell | February 11, 2014Summer Institute participants describe how they've used what they learned last summer
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Why Curious People Have Better Relationships
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The Greater Good Science Center Summer Institute for Educators 2017
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Clark Kerr Campus, UC-Berkeley
Sunday, June 25 - Friday, June 30, 2017 OR Sunday, July 16 - Friday, July 21, 2017
The GGSC’s six-day Summer Institute equips education professionals with prosocial learning strategies, tools and processes that benefit both students and teachers.
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"Gratitude and Prosocial Behavior"
Finds that feeling gratitude produces kind and helpful behavior, even when that behavior is costly to the individual actor.
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Compassion evolved as a distinct affective experience whose function is to enable cooperation and protection of those who...
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This article on bystander intervention in emergency situations suggests that we are likely to help a “shabbily dressed”...
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Learn more about one of the leading researchers of gratitude.
- Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude
The GGSC’s new project which aims to expand the scientific database of gratitude and promote practices of gratitude in...
- The Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness
The Research Project on Gratitude and Thankfulness, co-directed by Robert A. Emmons and Michael E. McCullough, is a...
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Roots of Empathy
Mary Gordon explains how best to nurture empathy and social emotional literacy in all children—and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.
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