Creating Community Norms Together

I believe that there are many benefits to having a collective activity in your classroom in which everyone is encouraged to contribute to naming the community norms.  When we create things (paintings, songs, dances, stories), we care deeply about them, and the same is...

Starting Fall 2024 on the Right Foot

As we embark on a new academic semester, we need to be mindful that we all need to work and study in an environment where we not only feel, but we know, that we can live, study and communicate peacefully in our college community.  We are a family of humans and we...

What Makes an Excellent Human?

A lofty goal is to excel at whatever it is we hope to achieve as human beings.  If we want to be a trusted supervisor, a wonderful friend, a terrific employee, a beloved professor, etc., being mindful about the following common characteristics will help immensely:...

Managing Ourselves

So often we point a finger and blame another for their behavior towards us, but how often do we take our own temperature to see how we are conducting ourselves?  Maybe we need to assess our Emotional Intelligence (EI). Here are the components of emotional competence:...