🍂 High School 101; Developing Emotional Vocabulary; Supporting Your Upset Child/Teen

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Tuesday! On September 27, Ana Homayoun, founder, Green Ivy Educational Consulting, and Allia Griffin, PhD, lecturer, Santa Clara University, offer High School 101: Helping Students Prepare for a Successful High School Experience (Online)

Thursday! How can we raise children who are kind and thoughtful? Author, educator, and developmental expert Deborah Farmer Kris presents How to Help Kids Develop Their Emotional Vocabulary (September 29, Online).

On Friday, we welcome Eran Magen, PhD, founder of Parenting for Humans, for the first English Parent Forum of the season, How to Support Your Upset Child or Teen (September 30, Online). Don't miss this popular topic!

What can we do to help kids become more creative and innovative? Tony Wagner, PhD, bestselling author and global education expert, presents Learning by Heart: Creating “Innovation-Ready” Students for the Future. (October 6, Online).

NEW! How did the pandemic disrupt our children’s lives? NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz joins us to discuss her new book, The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now (October 13, Online)

NEW! On October 19, we continue our fentanyl education series with Stacey Wisniewski, Prevention Solutions, Hazeldon Betty Ford Foundation, in Fentanyl Prevention Education: How to Help Teens Make Healthy Decisions (Online)

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Upcoming 2022 - 2023 Events

How to Help Kids Develop Their Emotional Vocabulary

Thursday! Join Deborah Farmer Kris, educator and child development expert, to learn more about the science of emotion and how everyone benefits when we can name and navigate our feelings.

Thursday, September 29, 2022

5:30pm – 6:30pm PT

Online Event (Live)

Learning by Heart: Creating “Innovation-Ready” Students for the Future

Tony Wagner, PhD, global expert in education and bestselling author of Creating Innovators, will discuss how we can prepare our students to bring the skills of innovation to whatever they do.

Thursday, October 6, 2022

5:30pm – 6:30pm PT

Online Event (Live)

The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Childrens' Lives, And Where We Go Now

NEW! NPR education reporter Anya Kamenetz shows how the pandemic disrupted children’s lives—and how our country failed to put our children first.

Thursday, October 13, 2022

5:30pm – 6:30pm PT

Online Event (Live)

Fentanyl Prevention Education: How to Help Teens Make Healthy Decisions

NEW! Join Stacey Wisniewski, Prevention Solutions, Hazeldon Betty Ford Foundation, to understand the risks of intentional and unintentional fentanyl use among adolescents (in English).

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

5:30pm – 6:30pm PT

Online Event (Live)

Community Event

High School 101: Helping Students Prepare for a Successful High School Experience

Tuesday! Join Ana Homayoun, founder, Green Ivy Educational Consulting, and Allia Griffin, PhD, Santa Clara University, for a conversation on preparing your students for high school.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

6:30pm – 7:30pm PT

Online Event (Live)

Parent Forums

Parent Forum #17 (English) - How to Support Your Upset Child or Teen

Join us for a new Parent Forum (English) with Eran Magen, PhD, parent-child communication expert and founder of Parenting for Humans.

Friday, September 30, 2022

12:00pm – 1:00pm PT

Live Event (Meeting)

In the News

Don't cook chicken in NyQuil: FDA warns about dangerous social media challenges

Want to cook chicken in NyQuil? Swallow laundry detergent pods? According to the FDA, adolescents continue to be susceptible to dangerous social media dares like these.

— CNN Health

Just for Fun

Guinea Pig Bedtime Parade

As fall begins, we hope you and your families are settling back into school routines ... like these determined guinea pigs from the Sequoia Park Zoo!

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How to Raise Awe-Filled Kids (Even When the World Feels Awful)

In this video, Deborah Farmer Kris, author, developmental educator, founder of Parenthood365, shares how to infuse your children’s lives with more awe and wonder.

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