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March 14, 2025Introduction: Why Executive Functioning Matters When I interviewed Joyce Cooper-Kahn about the new edition of her book, “Late, Lost, and…
January 10, 2025[Editor’s note: Our archives contain several years of excellent articles, most of which remain relevant and important to today’s…- November 22, 2024Last month, I shared an interview I did with Michelle Icard on her new book, Eight Setbacks That Can Make a…
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October 18, 2024We Can’t Shield Our Kids From Failure. And We Shouldn’t. “Helicopter” parents (monitoring every detail of their children’s lives)…- March 1, 2024The central question keeping me up at night as an educator is this: How can we maximize every student’s…
