Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Parents and Trauma

"But one of the most important findings of this new cohort of researchers is that for most children, the environmental factors that matter most have less to do with the buildings they live in than with the relationships they experience— the way the adults in their lives interact with them, especially in times of stress."
(page 17, Kindle Edition)

"We know that when children experience toxic stress, especially when they are very young, it can disrupt their development in profound ways, compromising their immune system, their executive functions, and their mental health."
(page 19, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Skills and Stress

"Yet it was clear from my reporting that you could make students more self-controlled without ever talking to them about the virtue of self-control."
(page 12, Kindle Edition)

Rather than consider noncognitive capacities as skills to be taught, I came to conclude, it’s more accurate and useful to look at them as products of a child’s environment.
(page 12, Kindle Edition)

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together - Adversity and Strategies

"I aim here to follow a different strategy: to consider the developmental journey of children, and particularly children growing up in circumstances of adversity, as a continuum— a single unbroken story from birth through the end of high school."
(page 8, Kindle Edition)

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Music Sale January 2017!

I am selling some of my piano books.
All the books listed below are either brand new or gently used.
Please check the list below for the most up-to-date list of what I have on hand.

Any questions or orders, please email me: pianolessonsmn at gmail dot com

Alfred's Basic Piano Library - Repertoire Book Level 2 - 2.00 USD

Alfred's Basic Piano Library - Musical Concepts Level 2 - 2.00 USD

Teaching Little Fingers to Play Recital Pieces - 2.00 USD


Scott Joplin Piano Rags - 5.00 USD

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - 2.00 USD

The Parade Book - 2.00 USD

Classical Folk by Phillip Keveren - 6.00 USD


Famous Hymns - 2.00 USD


Wildflowers - 2.00 USD

Shipping to the USA: 3.00 USD for first item, additional 0.50 USD for every additional item

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Helping Children Succeed - Reading Together

Welcome to the newest Reading Together series. I'll be posting a summary about our reading each week on Tuesdays. Come join us!

We'll be reading Helping Children Succeed by Paul Tough. You can get a copy from your local library, or pick up a copy from Amazon.

The chapters are rather shorts, so we'll be reading two chapters per week.
I'll post about the first installment on Tuesday, January 17. That means you have two weeks to get a copy of the book and to read the first two chapters.

The great thing about this program is that it allows us to read works together that can help us in our professional development as well as providing a level of accountability and the added interest of comparing notes as we read together.

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