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Sherri W. Fisher

Your Easy-As-Pie Resilience Recipe, Step 3: Revel in Your Resilience (Embrace Homemade)

  While baking your resilience pie, you’ve observed yourself and used what you’ve noticed to recognize your own patterns. You see yourself clearly. Now how do you grow from where towards where you want to be? How can you increase your natural resilience? Celebrate what’s going right so that you can help it to be...
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Why Your Millennial is Perfect for Today’s Work

Before I was an entrepreneur, I imagined being discovered by a company who was looking to hire me. In my fantasy, work was full of fun, friendship, and flexibility. Maybe I was born too soon, since working like a millennial had not even been invented yet! More and more companies are creating millennial-centered company cultures,...
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Progress: Is Your School District Just Using the “Good Enough” Standard?

Apparently not all school districts use the same standards in determining the benefit of the education they provide. While practically this should come as no surprise, given the vast differences in available resources among districts, it may surprise you to know this:  Special education law has been interpreted by the US Court of Appeals to...
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Why You Need to Shine the Light on Your Star Quality

Do you remember the last time people praised you for doing a great job, but all you could think about were the things you could have done better? Because our brains are hardwired to see and solve problems, it’s normal and natural for us to gravitate towards the negative. When stuck in self-critic mode, though,...
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Say Thanks Like You Mean It

When you were a child, how many times did someone encourage you to say “Thank you?” Though it may feel like heckling, consistently encouraging your kids to express thanks is key to building a life-long practice of gratitude. Gratitude-building starts early. Very young children learn that people appreciate socially desired behaviors and this makes kids...
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What Is Positive Education?

Learning is challenging, especially for students with attention, organization and special learning needs. It’s not about happiness all the time. Positive Education doesn’t mean that you will be happy the whole time that you are learning, either. Instead, it is the scientific study and application of research findings from Positive Psychology and other related areas to education...
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Smart Is What You Do

Go back to school looking great, inside and out. Personalized One-to-One Tutoring and Coaching for All Ages Writing, Orton-Gillingham Reading, Math Skills Executive Function, Attention, Learning Challenges Essay In A Day for College Applications ​ Don’t be disappointed–Popular times fill up quickly! Call Now to Pick Your Schedule Leave Details or Send Message Thank you for...
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Flourish Through Parenting Challenges With Your 5 Superpowers

Whether your student needs more focus, organization or skills, we can help you leverage strengths to meet challenges. Perspective–Take the long view. Learn how most high-risk children display resilience and develop into normal, happy adults. Authenticity–Be honest with yourself. Were you always a perfectly behaved and motivated student? Parents tell us that the bumps along their way have...
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5 Ways Happiness Will Maximize Your Back-to-School Success

Whatever you do during this summer vacation, we hope it includes doing things that make you happy. Research shows that positive emotion (happiness) is the foundation of sustainable success. So go ahead–love your vacation!  It will love you back in five important ways. Find out more. Get happy! Broaden your thinking–It’s essential for effective problem solving, mindful...
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Change your life for the better – and a future student’s life as well

Would you like more of what works well in your work, your family, and your life? Get it delivered right to your computer! Positive Psychology is the study of what works well. Learn from some of the world’s top practitioners in the field of positive psychology with an important webinar series. Over 30 graduates from the...
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