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We Need Pro-Hero Schools Instead of Anti-Bully Schools
This post is by guest blogger, Matt Langdon. Matt is the founder of The Hero Construction Company, which helps teach kids about the heroes within them and how to help their heroic selves thrive....
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Is Gaming the Answer to Our Global Problems?
Watch this TED talk about gaming as a solution to our problems: As a non-gamer, this TED talk raised many questions for me: Will gamers like real-world solutionary games as much as Warcraft? Is the...
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Modeling Ordinary Heroism
Last week we just finished the summer intensive session of our online course, Teaching for a Positive Future. Twenty-six wonderful traditional and non-traditional educators gathered together to learn,...
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Matt Langdon: Ditching Anti-Bullying Programs to Build Pro-Hero Schools
Why does Matt Langdon, founder of the Hero Construction Company, cringe every time he sees an anti-bullying sign in a school? Why does he think anti-bullying programs should be ditched in favor of...
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Restoring Our Faith in Humanity
There were many comments about my recent essay at Care2.com, “We can (and should) care about both people and animals.” Sadly, many of them were deeply misanthropic. I can understand how some people...
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11 Resources for Highlighting Heroes
October is Anti-Bullying Month, and schools around the country will be putting special focus on bullying behaviors. Preventing bullying is an admirable goal, but as Hero Construction Company founder...
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Here’s What One Teacher Did to Address Bullying & Cliques in His Class
The person who created the whole “…words will never hurt me” adage was sorely mistaken. As millions of children know every day, words (and actions) hurt. The incidence of bullying in schools (and out)...
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Find suggested books, websites, articles, videos, lesson plans, activities and other resources on pro-hero & anti-bullying issues to help you learn and/or teach about this topic. More
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Epic
In “Epic” (102 min) (ages 7 and up) MK (Mary Katherine) goes to visit her father, who is obsessed with finding tiny people he believes inhabit the forest near his house. When MK is shrunk by the queen...
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Good News Network
The Good News Network is full of inspiring stories of people doing big and small good things for other people, animals, and the earth.
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Dr. Phil Zimbardo: Understanding Good and Evil
What is evil? Is everyone capable of evil? Are there just a few “bad apples” responsible for atrocities like the Holocaust? Abu Ghraib? The shooting in Tucson? Or do systems and circumstances have a...
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The 40th Anniversary of the Stanford Prison Experiment: 5 Resources You Need...
Many of us, when we read about people committing atrocious acts of evil against other humans, are quick to attribute the actions to a “bad apple” or people who are evil. But, as Professor Philip...
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