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Congressman Tim Ryan Introduces the Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act

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Posted in Education, Happiness, Mindfulness, Research, Resources for teaching, Social and Emotional Learning    |    May 15th, 2013    |   

Congressman Tim Ryan has been a force for the support of mindfulness in our military and schools and now he is expanding that support with the Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act. The act, co-sponsored by Congressman Dave Loebsack, Congressman Tom Petri and Congressman Matt Cartwright, amends the Elementary Education and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to allow funding for teacher and principal training and professional development to be used for social and emotional learning programming. “I have already seen what … Continue reading →

Implementing Project Happiness: Paddling Downstream

Posted in Uncategorized    |    September 20th, 2009    |   

(See the end of the post for important Handbook ordering info!) September 21, 2009 By now almost everybody is back at school (including those people on the quarter system who like to make everyone else feel jealous in August and early September!) and in the thick of things. I am incredibly pleased to report that we have more than twenty schools using The Project Happiness Handbook so far and that there are even more getting ready to take the plunge. … Continue reading →

An Invitation to Teachers: The Project Happiness connection

Posted in Resources for teaching, Teacher Contributions    |    September 13th, 2009    |   

September 13, 2009 Hello to Current, Past, Prospective and Eternal Project Happiness Teachers: I’m writing to introduce myself: my name is Abby Konopasky and I am Project Happiness’ new Director of Education. For those of you who have worked with Maria Lineger, she’s still on board, but we couldn’t keep her away from the hands-on, experiential work that is so critical to our program. I am fortunate to have her foundational work to build on and her guidance to do … Continue reading →

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