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Basic Skills: Pushed down curriculum in preschools vs. pushed up curriculum in business schools

August 29, 2012 Cristina Barvo

For several years, early childhood experts have been promoting developmentally appropriate practices in response to the “escalated” or “pushed-down” curriculum.…

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More on the topic of respect

August 21, 2012 Cristina Barvo

“Love without respect is dangerous; it can crush the other person, sometimes literally. To respect is to understand that the…

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Root Cause Analysis

August 16, 2012 Cristina Barvo

‎”Behavior is just a shell. To understand people, we have to look inside them to find the cause. Don’t react…

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Respect

August 13, 2012 Cristina Barvo

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Inner voice

August 10, 2012 Cristina Barvo

Enough said!

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To trust or not to trust

Cristina Barvo

Most humans have a natural disposition to trust and to judge trustworthiness that can be traced to the neurobiological structure…

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How do we regulate our emotions?

July 12, 2012 Cristina Barvo

I recently finished the book “How we decide” by Jonah Lehrer. I highly recommend it. He talks about the importance…

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“Metaphor and Metacognition: the mind when pushed to invention”

July 10, 2012 Cristina Barvo

This is a TedEX talk by the director of my school. I feel very proud and honored to spend my…

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Rethinking the culture of punishment

May 23, 2012 Cristina Barvo

‎”Children don’t learn right from wrong by being punished, any more than they learn red from blue by being punished.…

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Thinking Routines

March 30, 2012 Cristina Barvo

Here is an interesting set of questions to promote reasoning, understanding different perspectives, questioning and investigating. Even though these questions…

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