Element Is Everything

Meet young high school students who share how their natural love of learning remains alive through a personalized learning journey. 

Ken Danford, author of Learning is Natural; School is Optional and co-founder of North Star, a center for teen learners shares his story and insight on self-directed learning.    

While rigorous learning requires challenge, it doesn't have to be painful.  Two high school students share their experience transitioning from meaningless to meaningful learning.  

 

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https://realitychangers.org/  

Part 2:
John Ratey, MD, best-selling author and doctor of psychiatry, shares common everyday practices that bring a natural sense of well-being.

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Healthy Habits Inventory

John Ratey, MD, best-selling author and doctor of psychiatry, shares common everyday practices that bring a natural sense of well-being. 

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Harvard Article on Exercise Can Boost Your Memory and Thinking
Healthy Habits Inventory

Personal leadership for success and happiness requires personal accountability.  Stryder Spillane, CEO of Leader Prep, explains the crucial step of problem-solving – owning the situation. 

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Meet Stryder Spillane, recently featured in HR Tech Outlook magazine, to reflect on how owning your current situation can bring a higher level of success and happiness. 

HR TECH Outlook

They say life is no picnic...but what if it was? What if every day we scheduled time for ourselves to relax, reflect, and rejuvenate.  Discover how a new mindset and habits can lead to better results with less work. This is the first of five parts of Season 3:  Taming the Modern Day Sabertooth

Imagine your children waking each day, knowing what they are going to do and how they need to go about doing it. You've prepared them and the environment so well, they hum along in their work driven by curiosity and fueled by discovery.  They tackle the “boring stuff” with patience and overcome challenges with optimism.  They learn things you never even knew or may have forgotten.  These are the characteristics of self-determined learners.  

Today we discuss the purpose and function of learning and how to let go of the edge of outdated conventional practices to swim in the waters of self-determined learning. 

Follow your heart, use your head, trust your gut.  Which is a person to do? 

The neuroscience behind mBraining and Multiple Brain Integration Techniques (mBiT) tells us to do them all. A discussion with Lisa Blackett, certified mBIT coach and trainer, tells us how.  

Connor Swenson discusses the Make Time Framework to manage the forces that compete for our time.