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Building Resilience in Students: An Educator's Role

In today's challenging world, resilience has become one of the most important qualities a student can develop. Whether facing academic pressures, social challenges, or personal adversity, resilience allows students to learn from setbacks, and thrive in the face of difficulty. But how can teachers foster this critical skill in the classroom? You Good? You Good! E Pai Ana Koe? E Pai Ana! is a particularly effective programme for students aged 8-12 years to develop  skills needed for managing ...

Empowering Teachers in 2025: Why Emotional Literacy Counts

Why would busy teachers include an emotional literacy programme in their timetable? Another way to consider this is to ask the inverse question – what happens in classes where emotional literacy isn’t included as a class programme? Let’s do some time travel to ponder this question.When I was a junior student in our local primary school an incident occurred that has stayed with me for nearly 60 years. The bell to return to class had rung and all the junior children were lining up in tidy, s...