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How To Help Someone At Risk Of Suicide
If you know someone struggling with despair, depression or thoughts of suicide, you may be wondering how to help. Yet many of us are afraid to do the wrong thing. In fact, you don’t have to be a trained professional Read more >>
How to Have Difficult Conversations When You Don’t Like Conflict
For most people, conflict is a source of stress, and especially so if you are someone who avoids confrontations. Avoiding or delaying a difficult conversation can hurt your relationships and create other negative outcomes. It may not feel natural at Read more >>
ADHD and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) is extreme emotional sensitivity and pain triggered by the perception that a person has been rejected or criticized by important people in their life. It may also be triggered by a sense of falling short—failing to Read more >>
Study: Teens with Negative Body Image May Experience Depression as Adults
Adolescence is fraught with stressful changes, and the developing body can be one of those challenges, especially if a teen’s body doesn’t meet society’s — or that teen’s — standards. Negative body image can threaten mental health, according to new Read more >>
Diversifying Your Classroom Book Collections? Avoid these 7 Pitfalls
As protests against racial injustice spread to communities large and small in this year, many educators have been pushed to examine how systemic racism harms students. Some have publicly proclaimed the steps they will take to create anti-racist schools, including Read more >>
Microaggressions Are A Big Deal: How To Talk Them Out And When To Walk Away
Kevin Nadal, a professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has spent years researching and writing books on the effects of microaggressions. As these big structural issues play out, he says it’s important to confront the small Read more >>
What Exactly is a Microaggression?
An Asian-American student is complimented by a professor for speaking perfect English, but it’s actually his first language. A black man notices that a white woman flinches and clutches her bag as she sees him in the elevator she’s about Read more >>
How to Be an Antiracist Educator: An Interview With Ibram X. Kendi
In education, nothing is “neutral” when it comes to race. Lesson plans, edtech tools and learning environments either create more equity among students of different races, or more inequity. That’s what scholar Ibram X. Kendi told EdSurge in an interview Read more >>
How to Use TikTok to Engage Students in Learning
TikTok in the classroom need not be a distraction that is banned but, rather, it can be a useful tool in helping teachers reach and engage with students on a deeper and more meaningful level. Read more >>
How to Cultivate a Sense of Unconditional Self-Worth
Self-worth is not the same as self-esteem. Our self-esteem is derived from our abilities, accomplishments, social positions and things we believe and we can achieve. We can bolster our self-esteem by improving our skills or performance, and our self-esteem goes Read more >>
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650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
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2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
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1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.702.2487
