Anyone who works in education knows how busy things can get during the school year. We have just finished the end of two blissful weeks off for winter break, and I literally took all two weeks OFF. Completely off. (Now I know what you're thinking - it's been a lot longer than two weeks since I've written anything, and you'd be right in pointing that out. What I HAVE been doing the last two months while not writing anything for my organization has been the intense, trying

The first time I was introduced to cutting and self-harm was during my first year of teaching. There was a student who was deeply troubled, and one day when he came to ask me a question about the math concepts we were working on, his loose sleeve slipped up and I saw his forearms littered with one inch long cuts. Being that this was the first time I ever saw this type of self-inflicted injury, I kind of freaked out and went straight to one of the counselors on campus to let

i've never wanted to shoot up a school (or any public place large or small for that matter). i don't own a gun, i've never shot a gun, and i don't know how to shoot a gun. but i DO know how the many school shooters have felt in the moments leading up to the school shootings. the FBI did a study on school shooters and found several personality traits, characteristics, motives that were prevalent in the school shooters minds prior to the horrific acts they carried out. a few

we've all heard the term, "head versus heart." but what does it actually mean? as human beings, we make decisions for a variety of reasons. sometimes we use our head, or logic, cognitive-based decision making, and other times we use our heart, or emotionally-based decision making given how we are feeling. decisions can be made in a proactive way or a reactive way. let's get the definitions of each: proactive [pro- + reactive]: acting in anticipation of future problems, n