This article details Yael University's most in-demand class, Psychology and the Good Life.
Angela Lee Duckworth in her TED Talk "GRIT: The power of passion and perserverance, talks about what it means to exhibit GRIT and how get there.
Jenny Fox-Eades, character strengths researcher and educator, shares examples of using character strengths with children in a practical and impactful way.
A schoolwide focus on cultivating traits like self-discipline, courage, and perseverance helps students meet high expectations.
Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky is a leading social psychologist and researcher into happiness and author of The Myths of Happiness and The How of Happiness.
Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.
Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve.
Technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely
Temple Israel Center White Plains, NY. This model encourages full-time educators to go beyond the classroom by engaging learners at the synagogue, in their homes, as well as, in the community.
Dr. Ruth Nemzoff discusses that this is not a time for perfection in a Pandemic Episode of the Thought Experiment Podcast.