Joslyn Aubin: Educational Therapist

Good stuff here about the nature of habits. Wendy Wood's book forms the cornerstone of my approach to helping students add good habits and banish bad ones.

You Can’t Simply Decide to Be a Different Person Forming new habits isn’t impossible, but it’s much easier for some people than others.

Make no mistake, remote learning is taking a toll on our students, especially those with executive functioning challenges.

Report: Twice as many CT high schoolers are in danger of being held back Research released Monday confirms what many parents and educators already suspected — more students than ever are falling behind during the pandemic, a problem especially present among those learning entirely from home in some of the state’s larger districts. The RISE Network tracked about 12,00...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-distance-learning.html?referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | Why I’m Learning More With Distance Learning Than I Do in School I’m 13 years old. I don’t miss the other kids who talk out of turn, disrespect teachers and hit one another.

For those wondering how accommodations will work on this year's at-home AP tests:

Accommodations for 2020 AP Exams – AP Coronavirus Updates | College Board Students will be able to use their approved accommodations for 2020 AP Exams. This year the way accommodations are provided may be different because the exams are shorter and will be taken online at home. Specific information about accommodations for AP world language and culture exams will be avail...

We are a family Schools are closed. Minds are wide open.

Some of these could be fun over April break!

Calendar of Virtual Field Trips for Families March, April, May 2020 **Want to add a LEGO engineering challenge each day, too? Please CLICK HERE for the 30 day LEGO challenge from https://www.freehomeschooldeals.com/.

There are a lot of cool opportunities like this out there. I will start posting more of them asap!

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My favorite piece on the college admissions scandal. Probably only an American parent going through this process today could relate to this.

How I Would Cover the College-Admissions Scandal as a Foreign Correspondent For the socially and economically hopeful, I would explain, raising a child in America is an eighteen-year process of investing in the college-admissions system.

This is what school should be.

We got a lot to learn

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I think this is a very positive trend and I hope it will spread a little closer to home!

Down With Homework, Say U.S. School Districts School districts across the country are banning homework, forbidding it on certain days or just not grading it, in response to parents who complain of overload and some experts who say too much can be detrimental.

Kids’ Brainpower Tied to Exercise, Sleep and Limited Screen Time At least 60 minutes of physical activity a day, nine to 11 hours of sleep a night, and no more than two hours a day of recreational screen time were tied to higher mental test scores.

An interesting, but scary read.

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.