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Teaching happiness in elementary school?

January 5, 2016 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Teaching happiness in elementary school?

  Are you a happy person? Do you remember yourself, siblings, friends and classmates as relatively happy children? When you think back to your own friends and elementary school classmates, those you have taught over the years, does there seem to be an increase in students struggling with anxiety and / or stress, social and /or emotional issues? The most unlikely circumstances of the happiest child I've taught in 20 years: I taught a … [Read more...]

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