<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="wordpress/2.3.1" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Creative World Connection Blog</title>
	<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog</link>
	<description>Where Every Connection is an Opportunity to Learn</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:11:39 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Rumination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Charles Darwin suffered from depression.  He wrote that his depression left him unable to do anything one out of three days.  Doing these episodes of depression, which he referred to as a weakness of the mind, he allowed this affliction to be a time to ruminate, to reflect or, as many would describe today to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2010/03/01/creating-change-in-the-classroom-2/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Simple Changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Schools are finding that something as simple as the timing of recess makes a difference in health and behavior of their students.   Rescheduling recess to play outside before they sit down to eat lunch has resulted in less food waste with higher consumptions of milk, fruit and vegetables and fewer behavior problems.
Children are calmer during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2010/01/26/better-schools/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Can Self Control Be Taught?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mediation teachers like to use two animal metaphors for the mind, doggy mind and monkey mind.  Doggy mind is like the dog running after every bone, every impulse, every desire and every aversion.  Any thought can occasion the chase.  Monkey mind swings from tree to tree from thought to thought.  It is active restless and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2010/01/11/teaching-self-control/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>New Rules For Character Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


By definition children are developmentally a moving target making interventions that target behavior a challenge. In schools children are subjected to a vast number of well-meaning programs that sound absolutely great on paper but fail the test of scientific analysis.
In the book &#8220;Nurture Shock&#8221; Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman explore the constellation of factors that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2009/12/18/excellent-schools-2/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Happiness Is Contagious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
What is social contagion?
Harvard researchers Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler have found that the happiest people are exposed every day to many small moments of contagious happiness. When you see other people smile at home, in the street, in a local restaurant your spirits are affected.   Happiness is more contagious than unhappiness.  Our behaviors are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2009/09/17/finding-happiness/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Dream Big</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Today is the first day of school for millions of American children.  President Obama is going to deliver a speech encouraging children to take responsibility for their learning and dream big.   Amazingly some in America are suspicious of his motives, some fearful of the content of his speech and some see sinister political messages directed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2009/09/08/effective-communication-2/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Ideas - Race To The Top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Years ago the Detroit Free Press had a popular columnist named Bob Talbert, he was known for his column titled, “Outta of my  Monday moaning mind. “  It was a collection of random thoughts some connected and some disconnected.  With the utmost respect to Bob Talbert, here’s my version.

Researchers at Stanford University recently   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2009/08/31/school-innovation/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Best Discipline Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
What is guilt? 
In clinical terms it’s a rapid response system that helps control negative impulses by producing an incredibly unpleasant sensation.
Psychologists say that children typically begin to feel guilt in their second year of life.  Some children possess a temperament that makes them more prone to guilt and others less prone both due to parents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2009/08/26/classroom-management/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Caring For Each Other’s Feelings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
“Universal responsibility is feeling for other people’s suffering just as we feel for our own.  It is the realization that even our enemy is entirely motivated by the quest for happiness.  We must recognize that all human beings want the same thing that we want.”
The XIV Dalai Lama
 
We all want to be understood.  When I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2009/08/17/effective-communication/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Your Kindness Footprint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;Our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.&#8221;
&#160;
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind.  When we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success. 
Several years ago I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://creativeworldconnection.com/blog/2009/08/10/teaching-kindness-2/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
