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List of Articles (alphabetical)
by Dr. Jane Bluestein and other authors
The list below includes links to all articles and book excerpts on the site, for all audiences, and are arranged alphabetically. To see these articles listed by topic, click here. More information is available in the Handouts section of this site.
numeric | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
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New: 11 ways to avoid problems with your children over money or buying
New: 5 Tips for Raising Financially Sound Children by Judy Lawrence, M.S.Ed.
6 Ways to Take More Time for Yourself (in Spanish, French)
7 Worst Things to Say to Your Kids During a Divorce, The
9 Benefits of Asking Questions Instead of Giving Answers (in Spanish, French)
9 Ways to be More Proactive (in Spanish, French)
13 Ways to Model Respect with Your Child (in Spanish, French)
14 Ways to Become a More Conscious Parent (in Spanish, French)
A
ADHD medications, dangers (article by Dr. Mercola)
Administrators, Implications for: Creating a 21st Century Discipline School (New title: “Win-Win Ideas for Administrators.”)
Articles (and handouts) in French.
Articles (and handouts) in Spanish.
“As Bad as Cocaine and Amphetamines.” Article by Dr. Mercola about ADHD medications.
Asking instead of telling: 9 Benefits of Asking Questions Instead of Giving Answers (in Spanish, French)
B
Babies, What they Learn before they’re Born (TED Talk by Annie Murphy Paul)
Bearing Witness: Support for Children in Crisis
Beautiful Brains: National Geographic article on Why Teens Act the Way They Do
Beginning Teachers: Great Expectations: Tips for Beginning Teachers
Boundaries: Challenge of Setting Boundaries, The
Boundaries and Teens: Parenting Teens: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Brave New World: The Changing Role of the School
NEW: Build Your Support Team: Parents as Allies (from Becoming a Win-Win Teacher)
NEW: Building Community: Creating a Positive Social Climate in your Classroom
NEW: Bully-Proofing Kids: Real Strategies to Help Kids avoid being Bullied, article by Dr. Michele Borba
C
Challenge of Setting Boundaries, The
Changing Role of the School, The
Colleagues, Dealing with Difficult
NEW: Community, Building: Creating a Positive Social Climate in your Classroom
Conscious parenting: 14 Ways to Become a More Conscious Parent (in Spanish, French)
Corporal Punishment: Spare the Rod
Creating a 21st Century Discipline School: Implications for Administrators (New title: “Win-Win Ideas for Administrators”)
Creating Emotionally Safe Schools (Interview with Dr. Jane Bluestein)
Crisis, children in: Bearing Witness: Support for Children in Crisis
D
Dealing with Difficult Colleagues
Defining Moment, A: Handling Public Mistakes made in Class
Discipline, Implications for Administrators: Creating a 21st Century Discipline School (New title: “Win-Win Ideas for Administrators.”)
Discipline Trap: Catching up to the 21st Century, The
Discrimination and Belonging: Pretty & Popular
Divorce: The Seven Worst Things to Say to Your Kids During a Divorce
E
New: Exercise, benefits of: Proven: Kids Get Smarter Just from Doing This One Simple Thing, article on the benefits of exercise by Dr. Mercola
F
Feedback from students: Report Card for my Teacher
Feeling great: 36 Things You Can Do To Feel Great! (in Spanish, French)
Financially responsible children: 11 ways to avoid problems with your children over money or buying
Financially Sound Children, 5 Tips for Raising by Judy Lawrence, M.S.Ed.
G
H
High School Reunion: How to Attend (Interview with Dr. Bluestein with practical tips)
NEW: Home-School Relationships: Parents as Allies (from “Build Your Support Team” in Becoming a Win-Win Teacher)
Homework: Is Your Child’s Homework Worth Doing?
Homework: Making Homework WORK! Building Flexibility into Your Homework Policies.
Homework: Synthesis of Research Findings on Homework by Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller
Homework: Taking a Stand Against Homework. See what some teachers are doing about homework, and why!
Homework: What About Homework?
How Do You Parent? (in Spanish, French)
I
“I-Messages”: What’s Wrong with Them?: Article; Separate Handout
Implications for Administrators: Creating a 21st Century Discipline School (New title: “Win-Win Ideas for Administrators.”)
In What Other Profession...? Article describing double standards for teachers in a profession-bashing climate, by David Reber
Interview with Dr. Jane Bluestein: Creating Emotionally Safe Schools
Irresponsibility: Ways to Build Irresponsibility in Your Child
J
Judy Lawrence, M.S.Ed., 5 Tips for Raising Financially Sound Children
M
Making Homework WORK! Building Flexibility into Your Homework Policies.
Mentoring: Ways to Be an Effective Mentor
New: Mercola, Dr.: Article on dangers of ADHD medications.
New: Mercola, Dr.: Article on the benefits of exercise (on this site): Proven: Kids Get Smarter Just from Doing This One Simple Thing.
Modeling respect: 13 Ways to Model Respect with Your Child (in Spanish, French)
Money and children:
New: 11 ways to avoid problems with your children over money or buying
New: 5 Tips for Raising Financially Sound Children by Judy Lawrence, M.S.Ed.
Motivation: Positive Consequences
N
NCLB: Links to other articles about testing and NCLB
Neural Development in the Teen Brain: Beautiful Brains: National Geographic article on Why Teens Act the Way They Do
O
P
Parent Quiz: How Do You Parent? (in Spanish, French)
Parenting Teens: Where Do You Draw the Line?
NEW: Parents as Allies (from “Build Your Support Team” in Becoming a Win-Win Teacher)
Parents’ Gizmos High on Tech, Low on Trust (Link to an interview in San Francisco Chronicle).
Power dynamics in the classroom: Beauty of Losing Control, The
Prenatal learning: What Babies Learn before they’re Born (TED Talk by Annie Murphy Paul)
Pretty & Popular: Discrimination & Belonging
Proactivity: 9 Ways to be More Proactive (in Spanish, French)
Problems with Corporal Punishment: Spare the Rod
Problems with High-Stakes Testing: Testing, Testing...
New: Proven: Kids Get Smarter Just from Doing This One Simple Thing, article on the benefits of exercise by Dr. Mercola
Q
R
Reason, a Season or a Lifetime, A (Relationships)
Respect: 13 Ways to Model Respect with Your Child (in Spanish, French)
Responsibility: Ways to Build Irresponsibility in Your Child
Reunion, High School: How to attend (Interview with Dr. Bluestein)
Ritalin and other ADHD medications, Cautions about (Article by Dr. Mercola)
Role of the school, The: Brave New World: The Changing Role of the School
S
NEW: The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science: Article by Chris Mooney with some thoughts for those of us in the business of “selling” ideas and why some people are so hard to convince.
Self-care: 6 Ways to Take More Time for Yourself (in Spanish, French)
Self-care: 36 Things You Can Do To Feel Great! (in Spanish, French)
Self-care: The Power of Discouragement (learning to ignore negative input)
Self-esteem: What is Optimal Self-Esteem
Setting Boundaries, The Challenge of
Seven Worst Things to Say to Your Kids During a Divorce, The
Spanish: A list of articles (and handouts) in Spanish.
Spare the Rod (Problems with Corporal Punishment)
Stress: How to Stay Stressed
Stressful or Painful School Events and Experiences that Can Compromise Emotional Safety
Student feedback: Report Card for my Teacher
Student self-management, building: Beauty of Losing Control, The
Support for Children in Crisis: Bearing Witness
Synthesis of Research Findings on Homework by Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller
T
Taking a Stand Against Homework. See what some teachers are doing about homework, and why!
Taking time for yourself: 6 Ways to Take More Time for Yourself (in Spanish, French)
The teaching profession: In What Other Profession...? Article describing double standards for teachers in a profession-bashing climate, by David Reber
Technology and Parenting: Parents’ Gizmos High on Tech, Low on Trust (Link to an interview in San Francisco Chronicle).
Teen behavior, neurological development: Beautiful Brains. National Geographic article on Why Teens Act the Way They Do
Teens, Parenting: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Testing: One Teacher’s Perspective
Testing, Testing... (Problems with High-Stakes Testing)
Test Time: Bringing Balance and Sanity to our Schools
Thank You, Mrs. Mather: A Tribute
Tips for Beginning Teachers: Great Expectations
W
Ways to Be an Effective Mentor
Ways to Build Irresponsibility in Your Child
Wellness: 36 Things You Can Do To Feel Great! (in Spanish, French)
Win-Win Classroom, Creating a: Beauty of Losing Control, The
Win-Win, Creating: No-Lose Parenting
Win-Win Ideas for Administrators
What’s So Hard About Win-Win? Article in Educational Leadership
What’s Wrong with “I-Messages”? Article; Separate Handout
What’s a Purchase Order: Confessions of an Accidental CEO (teacher-turned-business-owner)
When a Teacher Makes a Mistake
Worst Things to Say to Your Kids During a Divorce, The Seven
Complete listing of all articles and handouts in Spanish or French.
Complete listing of all articles on this site by topic.
Complete alphabetical listing of all handouts on this site.
Complete listing by topic of all handouts on this site.
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