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Is School Harming Our Kids?
From the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-taran/standardized-testing_b_1466236.html I just got off the phone with my sister. It is almost the end of the school year, and the...
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Can You Teach Happiness?
A TEDx event and book inspire middle school teachers and students to test out in practice the author’s ideas for building a curriculum on happiness. By Victoria Obenchain, The Saklan School Science...
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Sustainable Happiness — Lessons From Bhutan
From the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-taran/gross-national-happiness_b_1720955.html I recently had the pleasure to sit down with the honorable Prime Minister of Bhutan, Jigme Y....
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Common Ground Magazine Sings Praises of Project Happiness
When Randy Taran’s eldest daughter was a teenager, she approached her mother with a very serious concern: she was stressed out, and while she wanted to be happy, she didn’t know how. Taran,...
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Randy Taran Featured on Microsoft’s Daily Edventures with Anthony Salcito
This week, Project Happiness founder Randy Taran sat down with Anthony Salcito, Vice President of Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector Education to discuss her work with Project Happiness. The video is...
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The Blend at Paris Junior College Promotes Project Happiness
At the recent PJC Homecoming Parade, The Blend promoted theirThe Paris Junior College student club, The Blend, has worked all semester on Project Happiness. The campaign is designed to “activate...
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Education for Liberation
Education is the foundation of any society. It is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. The history of...
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The Alphabet of Happiness –“A”
Originally published on The Huffington Post – January 26, 2013 Happiness has many aspects: From quiet appreciation to living with zest and passion, it’s great to explore all the various facets...
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Teacher Appreciation Day!
“If there’s one thing we cannot say enough to our nation’s educators, it is THANK YOU.” – President Barack Obama Today, May 7, 2013, is Teacher Appreciation Day. At Project Happiness, we are so...
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Congressman Tim Ryan Introduces the Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act
Congressman Tim Ryan has been a force for the support of mindfulness in our military and schools and now he is expanding that support with the Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act. The act,...
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Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: The Power of...
This year, in partnership with Edutopia.org (The George Lucas Educational Foundation), we released a nine part blog series on Social and Emotional Learning for Elementary Education Students. Starting...
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Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Passion and...
This year, in partnership with Edutopia.org (The George Lucas Educational Foundation), we released a nine part blog series on Social and Emotional Learning for Elementary Education Students. Starting...
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Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: The Power of...
This year, in partnership with Edutopia.org (The George Lucas Educational Foundation), we released a nine part blog series on Social and Emotional Learning for Elementary Education Students. Starting...
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Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Empathy
This year, in partnership with Edutopia.org (The George Lucas Educational Foundation), we released a nine part blog series on Social and Emotional Learning for Elementary Education Students. Starting...
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Appreciating as an Action
TRUE APPRECIATION: CELEBRATING THE NEW HANDBOOK'S ARRIVAL! So, no surprise that on Thanksgiving, as on any other day, I was caught up in the language of the occasion. In particular, I began wondering...
View ArticleIn Search of the Charismatic Adult: Dr. Brooks on Resilience, Part 2
In this second installment of our podcast series on resilience, Dr. Brooks and I discuss the importance of the “charismatic adult” in a child’s life (a term coined by Dr. Julius Segal — see this...
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We All Have “Islands of Competence”: Dr. Brooks on Resilience, Part 3
Swimming for Our Islands of Competence ******* In the third installment of our resilience podcast series, Dr. Brooks explains his powerful metaphor, islands of competence (see this article on his site...
View ArticleWhy are Resilient People Usually Happy?: Dr. Brooks on Resilience, Part 4
Here Dr. Brooks and I finally make the connection between resilience and happiness. Some of the key components of resilience — identifying and displaying your strengths, helping others, and solving...
View ArticleHow Teachers Can Tame the Elephant in the Room: Dr. Brooks on Resilience, Part 5
In this installment, Dr. Brooks helps teachers tame the elephant in the classroom: fear of making mistakes and being humiliated. This fear is so strong that it can severely interfere with learning. Dr....
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Australia’s Social and Emotional Learning Advocate
An update on happychild.com.au’s Yvette Vignando: she managed to secure herself a visit with the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, during which she made her case for more Project-Happiness-type social and...
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3 Keys to Lasting Happiness
From the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-taran/the-key-to-happiness_b_1004566.html If you had to choose three keys to lasting happiness, what would they be? For me, those keys are...
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Project Happiness Launches Yearlong Program in India
Project Happiness has just launched a yearlong program for teens from the urban slums of Delhi. We are delighted to welcome Vibha, PH Director of India, and founder of Muskaan. Vibha is working with 38...
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5 Simple Lessons About Happiness I Learned From My Children
Children are wiser than most of us acknowledge and have a great deal to teach us. They interact with the world in an unassuming way, not yet programmed by the routine thinking of the adult world. My...
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