Note from Eric Kalenze, Director of Education Solutions: This week’s post is provided by guest blogger Dr. Karen Ruth-Jarmon. Dr. Ruth-Jarmon co-teaches science to middle schoolers at Best Academy, a dual-campus charter school in Minneapolis, MN, that is part of the Harvest Network of Schools. Dr. Ruth-Jarmon works at Best Academy East, a school providing […]
Most of us know that quality relationships are important in the lives of youth. And families play big roles in positive youth outcomes, preparing them for success in school, work and life.1 In fact, the quality of the relationships in the family predict thriving and build character strengths much more than demographic factors. A large number […]
NOTE FROM ERIC KALENZE, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION SOLUTIONS: This week’s post is provided by guest blogger Jacob Mongan, Dean of Students at Pine River-Backus High School in Pine River, MN. Jacob works with a team of school leaders at PR-B who have been learning about and implementing REACH research and resources since the beginning of […]
By Eric Kalenze, Director of Education Solutions Based on the kind notes so many readers have sent over the past couple of months, it’s becoming clear that (1) there’s some strong interest in how to effectively improve young people’s academic motivation and (2) REACH’s way of breaking down and addressing motivation’s complex nature is providing […]
Relationships First: Creating Connections that Help Young People Thrive “After decades of forming hypotheses, conducting surveys, crafting and rewriting definitions, analyzing data, and writing journal articles, Search Institute researchers and practitioners have arrived at a surprisingly simple conclusion: nothing—nothing—has more impact in the life of a child than positive relationships.” –Peter […]
A note from Eric Kalenze, Director of Education Solutions: This week’s post is provided by guest blogger James Nelson, Dean of Students at Risen Christ School Catholic School. Located in South Minneapolis and serving a highly diverse population, Risen Christ is the only dual-language-immersion Catholic school in all of Minnesota. James’s middle school team has […]
By Eric Kalenze Over the course of 2016’s presidential election, political conversation reached levels of volume and vitriol we’d not been accustomed to seeing. Worse, though we’ve reached President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration day, the dust kicked up by the election battles seems to be far from settled: horrifically, close to a thousand cases of […]
A note from Eric Kalenze, Director of Education Solutions: In my post a couple weeks ago I mentioned that, in order to provide more detail about how REACH research and resources are informing practices in the schools we work with, the Search Institute blog will feature occasional guest pieces from educators. This week’s post is […]
A note from Eric Kalenze, Director of Education Solutions: Hello and happy new year! My previous post mentioned that, in order to provide more detail about how REACH research and resources are informing practices in the schools we work with, the Search Institute blog will feature occasional guest pieces from educators. This week’s post is […]
Eric Kalenze, Search’s Director of Education Solutions, will be appearing in this space occasionally to share more about our research, our research-guided school improvement work with schools, our REACH Framework, and practical items to keep in mind about student motivation. Additionally, we’ll bring some guest-bloggers aboard so they can share, practitioner-to-practitioner, what using REACH-based practices […]
