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• Attitude Science: The Scientific Foundations

• Adjustment Tools: Practical Attitude Changing Methods

• Parenting: Intimate Catalysts of Learning

• Home Schooling: Intimate Context of Learning

• Teaching: Organizational Catalysts of Learning

• Rethinking School: Organizational Context of Learning

• Education: Social Context of Learning

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• Attitude:Positive Attitude in Reality
  Positive attitude is more than thinking good thoughts, it's the ability to access a beneficial state of mind regardless of your situation.

  • Why Teach Attitude?
    We must teach attitude because it is more elementary than teaching academics, so if children don't master atttiude first, they are being cheated.

  • Attitude Adjustment Tools
    Is an attitude adjustment what you need? Or what someone else needs? Here are the tools I've collected to do just that.

  • Attitude Simplified
    Attitude is how you arrange the mental furniture of your body/mind re-creational vehicle as you explore the world of your experiences.

  • Minds Are More Than You Think: Towards a General Definition of Attitude
    Your mind is more than you think. In my current definition of attitude your mind extends beyond your body in things around you and the behavior of other people.

  • Metaphorical Definition of Attitude: It's a Matter of Life or Death
    Attitude is the one factor that predicts survival in disaster. Teachers need a metaphorical definition of attitude that helps them anticipate the true needs of learners.

  • Technical Definition of Attitude
    Educators need a technical definition of attitude to be able to develop objective measures of teaching attitude successfully.

  • Re-reading Viktor Frankl's Man’s Search For Meaning: Writing In Spite of My Schooling
    Starting with Viktor Frankl's quote about attitude learn how the stories we are told, and tell ourselves, create who we are.

• Attitude Science: The Science of Attitude
  The science of attitude was uniquely revealed when Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke and survived to tell the tale.

  • Are We Making Students Happy?
    Does making students happy help them learn?

  • Illusion Series 1: Literal Illusions
    In this first installment we visit literal illusions and over the course of the series I will share scientific perspectives on a variety cognitive and social illusions.

  • Illusion Series 2: Illusions of Knowing The World
    In this TED Talk Jonathan Drori shows how some of our basic ideas about how the world works are actually wrong.

  • Illusion Series 3: The Illusion of Knowing Our Own Minds
    In this third installment we learn how little we know our own minds.

  • Illusion Series 4: Illusions of Evil
    This fourth installment Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo examines our ideas about the most common causes of evil behavior.

  • Illusion Series 5: Illusions of Good
    In this TED Talk Professor Jonathan Haidt considers our sense of morality.

  • Illusion Series 6: Illusions About Our Global Society
    In this final installment I offer four videos about objective evidence that global patterns of violence and socio-economic conditions are not how most people assume they are.

  • Positive Psychology
    In this TED Talk Martin Seligman gives a quick overview of the key findings of positive psychology.

  • Brilliant Brain Science
    Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between cerebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.

• Adjustment Tools: Practical Attitude Changing Methods
  Is an attitude adjustment what you need? Or what someone else needs? Here are the tools I've collected to do just that.

  • Learning Piano Is FUN!
    Learning piano is fun for anyone when it's a game and the name of the game is Piano Wizard.

• Parenting: Parenting Advice And Resources From Parents To Parents
  Parenting advice and resources for parents from parents.

  • Parenting Styles or Childing Styles
    Parenting styles researchers assert that if you simply behave right as a parent your children will behave right, too. This is wrong, parenting is a moral, not behavioral challenge.

  • Expert Parenting Advice, Can We Trust It?
    What’s a parent to do when parenting experts disagree? Some expert parenting advice seems absurd, but is it true?

  • Parenting Facts
    Parenting fact #5: Parenting is a moral challenge not a behavioral one. Read all five parenting facts here.

  • Leading Edge Parenting Radio Show Interview
    Parenting radio show host Sandi Schwartz interviews Don Berg, founder of Teach-kids-attitude-1st.com.

• Home Schooling: Home School Curriculum: Start Anywhere, Learn Everything
  This is a free home school curriculum approach that teaches the 3R's of Respect, Responsibility, and Resourcefulness.

  • The Moral Path of Curriculum: Fulfillment Or Judgment?
    Every curriculum takes the moral path of either fulfillment or judgment, find out how to tell which way you're going.

• Teaching: Being a Good Teacher, What's It Take?
  Being a good teacher requires both passion and a place that supports you to be passionate.

  • Benjamin Zander is a Good Teacher
    Here is a pair of videos of one truly great teacher.

  • Teaching Beyond Language
    In this TED Talk Evelyn Glennie tells the story of how her teacher transcended his own limitations to accept her as a student.

  • What is Teaching?
    The obvious core of teaching is facilitating learning, but teachers are, more importantly, cultural catalysts.

  • In Elementary School, What's Elementary?
    Optimal states of mind is more elementary in elementary school than literacy.

  • Ruby Payne's Framework For Preserving Poverty
    Ruby Payne offers teachers in the trenches a new weapon in the fight against poverty, too bad it will backfire.

  • My Big Teaching Idea
    My big teaching idea came on a baseball field and makes the idea that teaching is just delivering units of knowledge, skills and information to students look rather absurd.

  • Lifelong Learning is Lifelong Thrival
    Lifelong learning is a buzz word for something that everyone wants to achieve, but does it really mean something important?

  • What’s A Teacher To Do?
    A teacher who disagrees with the status quo has a big challenge, but by s/he staying focused on the 3R's of respect, responsibility and resourcefulness, sanity is possible.

• Rethinking School: Debunking The Myth That School is a Classroom
  A school is any context designed for learning but the persistent myth that it must include a classroom does everyone a disservice.

  • In Elementary School, What's Elementary?
    Optimal states of mind is more elementary in elementary school than literacy.

  • Academics Are The Wrong Lesson
    Subjecting children to academics under the dictatorship of a teacher teaches them the wrong social skills. There are proven alternatives that teach the right lessons.

  • Definition of Education
    A proper definition of education is NOT the delivery of information, it is cognitive mapping of reliable access to optimal states of mind.

  • The Moral Path of Curriculum: Fulfillment Or Judgment?
    Every curriculum takes the moral path of either fulfillment or judgment, find out how to tell which way you're going.

  • Democratic Schooling: Nurturing Every Child, Not Just Playing The Odds
    Which is better for children, wild democratic schools or dictatorial industrial classrooms? Democratic schooling makes more sense than you might think.

  • Beyond the NCLB Act: Further Along the Moral Path of Judgment
    A bipartisan report on the NCLB act calls for continued measurements of all the wrong outcomes and sends us further down the same moral path of judgment.

  • Reading First Is Failing: Attitude Is Being Ignored
    An article in Education Week announces that the billion-dollars-a-year Reading First NCLB program is failing but they aren't talking about the REAL reasons why.

  • Early Academic Achievement Is A Waste: Invest In Early Attitude Achievement
    Early academic achievement is a well-intentioned booby prize, instead, elementary age kids need to build a strong attitude foundation from the 3R's of Respect, Responsibility and Resourcefulness.

  • What Makes A Good School? Picking Good Students!
    A college president finally admits that good schools do not produce good students, they benefit from the desirable qualities of students who were already good.

  • Breaking The Classroom Habit
    The classroom is an educational habit and it's a habit that is sometimes bad for children. Here's the story of how I broke my classroom habit.

• Education: Attitutor Learning Theory
  Learning is automatic, unconscious and impossibe to avoid. A learning theory based on learning, not just teaching.

  • Honoring The State's Interest In Learning
    How is the State's interest in learning served when parents can be prosecuted for homeschooling? Recent prosecutions indicate that some States are operating under mistaken assumptions about learning.

  • Education Policy For Malia and Sasha Obama
    Should education policy make Malia and Sasha Obama learn in benevolent tyranny or respectful democracy?

  • Definition of Education
    A proper definition of education is NOT the delivery of information, it is cognitive mapping of reliable access to optimal states of mind.

  • Why Is Education Important?
    This exploration of how education, properly understood, provides individual fulfillment, fosters resilience and may ensure our species survival answers the question: Why Is Education Important?

  • Our Education System: What are the Nuts and Bolts?
    Our education system today should make optimal states of mind a higher priority than literacy.

  • The Moral Path of Curriculum: Fulfillment Or Judgment?
    Every curriculum takes the moral path of either fulfillment or judgment, find out how to tell which way you're going.

• Leadership: Leadership Is Not Management
  Leadership is about aligning the context of an organization to meet the needs of those inside, those outside it, and other organizations. Management is just meeting the needs of the organization.

  • Consulting Button: Educational Leadership Consulting
    Don Berg, the author of Teach-Kids-Attitude-1st.com, is available for hire to do lectures, presentations or consult on applying leadership principles in school settings.

• Laugh @ School: Truthiness @ School
  What does truthiness do at school? If truthiness is about knowing from the gut, schooliness is about knowing because they said it would be on the test.

  • School Work In The Real World...
    Here's a really eye-opening look at school work from the perspective of real work.

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• Free E-Book: The Attitude Problem in Education
  The biggest mistake in education is the placement of academics above attitude. The Attitude Problem in Education presents a plan for putting attitude first instead.

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