How to Prepare Students for Life’s Pivotal Moments

Developmentally, middle school students are beginning to ask questions about who they are and who they want to become. At the same time, they are increasingly having to navigate real and often complex situations—moments when they may feel pressure to fit in rather than to stand up or speak out for what they know is […]

How to Teach Students to Embrace Wonder

Heidi Lawrence’s path to awe started more than a decade ago when she began working on ideas for her Ph.D. in English literature. Exploring Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and other adolescent novels, she began noticing patterns of connection between the characters’ inner worlds and their relationships with nature—specifically, the ways characters’ emotional worlds […]

Four Campuses Where Students Are Having Hard…

Student suspensions across the country. Police in riot gear called on to dozens of campuses. Presidents of top universities called into congressional hearings. Those were the top higher education stories during the past year. But there were also many students, faculty, and staff committed to fostering a culture of understanding and belonging across higher education. […]