This past Tuesday we offered our 3rd annual Mental Health Symposium. It was held during the morning and brought over 100 students, staff, and guests together to discuss why mental health is so important, especially during our high school years.…
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Loading...Today we headed to Cambridge for our first school visit in England. We arrive at Parkside Academy, which is a federation academy meaning they run more than one school. In this case there are two secondary colleges and a Sixth Form college. …
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I am working in Japan this year and I have chosen to take a MOOC on Social Psychology while I am away. Now I chose the course before I decided to move, but I think that fate stepped in because the content of this course seems so relevant to me right now.…
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On Friday September 6th,2013 I attempted to complete my day of compassion. For this project I will refer to compassion as the sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compassion…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As I spend time in Japan this year, I have made an opening for a brand new counsellor to work at Bishop Carroll. I have also left behind a dear friend who is going to make sure that “the new guy” has a fantastic first experience.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Friends, family and teachers make excellent referrals to school counsellors.
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In every age there are those topics that are the “tough” ones. We know there are valuable lessons there, but the content isn’t directly in the curriculum. Sometimes we skirt around them because they’re often controversial.
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When I was 12 I was really a bit lost… no longer a kid but not quite fitting into the preppy world I needed to find a place where I belonged.
Then along came DCI- Drum Corp International and my life changed for the better.…
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