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New Class Roles: Building Environments Of Cooperation, Lori Desautels
New Class Roles: Building Environments Of Cooperation, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
We see students survive every day. We ourselves survive every day -- a class, a test, a conflict, a relationship, and a challenge. Yet surviving is very different than thriving! Many students that we see daily bring a degree of their stress into our classrooms. Thankfully, many of them also have supports in their lives that allow them to manage this stress in a productive manner.
Emotions Are Contagious, Lori Desautels
Emotions Are Contagious, Lori Desautels
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
Through millions of pairs of lenses, we each see ourselves, others, and relationships from a variety of views. Each brings his or her inner world, unmet needs, emotional baggage, culture, and belief system into the human connection. So perhaps I shouldn't have been stunned a few weeks ago while reading the resiliency research associated with troubled youth inside our schools, when I encountered these words from Dr. Nicholas Long: "The number one reason for the increase in student violence in schools is staff counteraggression." Yet I was stunned.