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Top 5 Most Memorable What the World Needs Now Podcasts
In collaboration with Harmony Academy, we hosted 18 podcasts with educators, school leaders, and changemakers this past year — all focused on how we can make education a better place for educators, leaders, and most of all, our students.
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Keeping Human Connections in Focus in our AI World
By: Nick Yoder, Ph.D., Associate Vice President, Harmony Academy Can artificial intelligence demonstrate empathy? This was a question someone asked me on the Summit Stage at this year’s ASU+GSV Summit. As a social scientist for over 20 years, I took a moment to reflect. Did we ever think we would consider artificial intelligence (AI) as […]
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Beyond “Nice to Have”: The Science of Belonging as a Fundamental Need for Success
by Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, Ph.D., and Sarah Caverly, Ph.D. In the ever-evolving contexts of education and today’s workplace, we often obsess over metrics. We track grades, graduation rates, quarterly earnings, and productivity hours with a fervor that suggests these numbers tell the whole story of human success. Success, however, is rarely the result of aptitude […]
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Integrate Belonging Into Summer Learning With Harmony!
Summer learning offers an opportunity to do more than keep students engaged. It’s also a chance to create learning environments where every student feels accepted, valued, and connected to their peers and teachers — the very definition of belonging within a school community. Belonging research shows that students who feel a strong sense of belonging […]
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Students Share the Small Ways Teachers Build Belonging
In Honor of Teacher Appreciation Month, we want to recognize the amazing educators who build belonging in classrooms every day. Teachers have a remarkable superpower: helping every student feel seen, valued, and like they belong in their learning communities. How do we know that? Because their students told us! We reached out to teachers across […]
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Belonging as a Core Condition for Learning
Belonging as a Core Condition for Learning Schools today are grappling with rising chronic absenteeism, widening learning gaps, and increasing teacher dissatisfaction. Belonging — the feeling of being accepted, valued, connected, and a contributor within a community — is a fundamental human need. Research consistently shows that fostering belonging strengthens both student outcomes and educator […]
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Can Reading Books Make Kids Smarter and More Connected?
By: Carol Jago & Sarah Caverly, Ph.D. Can reading books make kids smarter and more connected? In her article for Time magazine, Annie Murphy Paul argues that it can. She discovered evidence that “individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and view the world from their […]
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It’s Time to Shine: 6 Trauma-Informed Theatre Practices to Ease Stress
By Jennifer Wienke, Trauma-Informed Educator Fairbanks, Alaska It’s National Stress Awareness Month, and as a trauma-informed theater educator at the Fairbanks Academy of Community Theatre (FACT) in Fairbanks, Alaska, it’s the perfect time to share strategies to help mitigate youth and family stress. “Life-changing” is a word communicated to the FACT team often in emails, […]
