Ken’s AEROx Online Conference Talk, February 22, 2020: A Sense of Urgency
Here is the text of the presentation I made at the AEROx online conference Feb. 22. This presentation was aimed at people interested in alternative models for schools and programs, including many people considering whether to start something new in their...
Does Doing Things Make Us Happy? Or Do Happy People Do Things?
Shawn Achor giving his TED Talk, “The Happy Secret to Better Work” at TEDxBloomington in 2011. Following up on my previous blog about The January Blues, I thought I might share a bit about how we respond at North Star to teens who arrive with low spirits....
It Sounds Too Good To Be True!
An introductory post from Ken Danford on a recent interaction with a struggling teen