Infant/child/adolescent psychiatrist. Mum of 5 great kids! Author of "Love Builds Brains". Advocate children & families. Advisor to On. Premier & EDU 2014-2018
Join Dr. Jean Clinton, author of “Love Builds Brains,” and Stephen de Groot, author of “Responsive Leadership” and “Getting to Better,” as they guide leaders, parents, teachers, and coaches through the CORE Essentials.
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Excitement is building for May 2025! 🎉 @DrJeanforkids is eager to join us at Expanding Horizons, sharing her insights on stage. Tickets go on sale early next month – don’t miss your chance to be part of this incredible event!
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These sheets are my non-negotiable in the first lesson! I've lost count of the number of times this sheet has given me key insights into pupils and helped me support other teachers with key students. Massive help for building valuable relationships with students.
Visualization exercises can help students settle their minds by temporarily shifting focus away from worries and concerns. Check out this video to keep in your mental health toolkit and use when you need it.
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Want happier, healthier kids?
Offer them autonomy.
Massive new meta-analysis makes it plain:
In every culture, control leaves children worse off — but autonomy helps them people engage, learn, and grow.
When we are intentional about procedures & rituals that lean into predictability, our nervous systems take sigh of release! Checking in with our ANS each day or a few times each day is foundational to sustainable well-being and deepened learning! Sharing tomorrow in the Wisconsin
Just saw Inside Out 2 Excellent! Anxiety and other necessary adolescent emotions are introduced and I'm ready to write again! Sharing a series I wrote for @edutopia for original! https://t.co/bLHzVrVjUu
What matters isn’t how well a teacher holds students’ attention; it's whether a teacher knows enough about how learning happens to stop being the center of attention.
Or, as @ddmeyer puts it, great teachers are characterized less by being interesting than by being interested.
"Parentese," a high-pitched tone used by parents when responding to a baby’s babbling and gestures, has been proven to be increasingly crucial for infant language growth, according to new research by @UW_ILABS: https://t.co/CLYnu6D3sk