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Wellbeing ≠ Happiness
by Phil Slade
Nov 28, 20241 min read
School Refusal - Anxiety, School Avoidance, and Parenting: Four Strategies to Bring Peace
It's a story that many parents and teachers know all too well. As the time to get ready for school approaches, a child becomes...
May 29, 20241 min read
Measuring Wellbeing
By Phil Slade The challenge of complexity, context, correlations, and data collection - and a proposed solution (Switch4Schools)
Feb 4, 20248 min read
Switching Anger to Wisdom: The Classroom Mindfulness Revolution
By Phil Slade and Roshelle Weir Anger is a powerful emotion that can have a significant impact on the classroom environment. Uncontrolled...
Nov 10, 20232 min read
Connecting Every Learner Every Day in Every Way for Success
By Susie Randel Kneipp, Principal at Kedron State School, published in The Queensland Principal magazine's September edition. In 2015...
Aug 30, 20236 min read
Engaging with the un-engageable
It’s a situation we all know well. The people who need to hear the message are often the ones unlikely to be open to receiving the...
Jun 19, 20237 min read
Why Emotional Intelligence Matters in Schools
In today's fast-paced and competitive academic environment, emotional intelligence (EI) has become a critical factor in determining the...
Apr 21, 20233 min read
Strategies for Supporting Students Dealing with Trauma in the Classroom
By Phil Slade and Roshelle Weir We all face some form of trauma in our lives, some sort of psychological stressor that we need to...
Mar 15, 20234 min read
Supporting Student Transition from Primary to Secondary School
Leaving primary school to go to high school can be a really stressful time for a lot of students. Sarah Perry, Miles State High School...
Feb 13, 20232 min read
Six essential things to ensure effective student wellbeing program implementation
Tips for increasing sustained change when implementing a wellbeing program in schools.
Oct 31, 20225 min read
What to do when kids feel sad
Kids can feel sad over the smallest of things that can spin them into deep despair, like not getting the chair they wanted, or misplacing...
Aug 19, 20223 min read
Using transition time as an opportunity to embed SEL
With the new social and emotional learning (SEL) goals set out by the government, many teachers are looking for novel ways to address...
Aug 11, 20222 min read
Four Approaches to Using Wellbeing Data
By Phil Slade It’s one thing to be able to see the data, it’s a whole other thing to know what to do with it at times. When it comes to...
May 20, 20223 min read
Fight bullying with emotional intelligence
By Phil Slade Bullying is a word that gets used quite a lot nowadays, but what does it actually refer to. Well, it’s basically a...
Apr 29, 20222 min read
Five emotionally intelligent things to do to set you and your team up for success in 2022
By Phil Slade, as featured in the latest edition of the QAASP March Journal. We all know of the importance of emotional intelligence (EI)...
Mar 31, 20228 min read
Managing vs controlling a class
Phil Slade interviews Noah Cunningham, Student and Teacher Behavioural Support ROCKET program founder from Education Queensland, on the...
Feb 20, 20221 min read
The path to success is paved with emotional intelligence
By Phil Slade and Gemma Burkett The three critical areas emotional intelligence develops in school student's social and cognitive...
Dec 10, 20213 min read
How early should we be teaching emotional intelligence?
Video Transcript Katie: We know that we're wired with emotional systems from birth, you just have to look at Ed Tronick's still face...
Dec 5, 20212 min read
The importance of emotional intelligence for student wellbeing
Video Transcript Phil: Doctor Katie Kjelsaas. Now, Katie, we were students back in UQ days. We were undergrads. We were mates that bonded...
Nov 28, 202110 min read
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