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  • 6 Low-Pressure Tips for Helping Your Child Decide Where to Apply to College

    If you’re helping your child decide where to apply to college, it can seem like the process is going well as long as you’re not arguing about it. However, it takes more than avoiding conflict with one another to make the best choices. The following tips...

  • To Help Students Prepare for Assessments, Teach Them This Decision Skill

    Common cognitive biases can prevent students from getting fully prepared for assessments. Teach them how to construct if-then planning statements that will help them resist cognitive biases so they stay on track.

  • Help Your Child Use Decision Skills to Select a College Major

    Selecting a college major is one decision that can be an especially stressful experience for adolescents and the family members who support them because it can have life-changing consequences. These decision skills can help you work with your child on a...

  • Want to Help Your Students Achieve Their Dreams? Start with Their Habits

    Teachers can help students understand that success doesn’t usually come from a single choice, but rather from the cumulative effects of repeated behaviors.

  • Strong Executive Function Skills Improve Learning and Decision-Making

    BrainFutures, the first national organization to develop a rubric that assesses the quality of school-based brain fitness interventions, advocates for every school to adopt a program that strengthens students’ executive functioning (EF).

  • Want to Start a Classroom Mindfulness Practice? Read These 6 Tips First

    If you’ve been thinking about incorporating mindfulness activities into your classroom routine, read our tips before you try that first breathing exercise.

  • High School Psychology Course Helps Students Use Decision Skills to Improve Well-being

    Educators have the opportunity to pilot an engaging Practical Psychology course featuring tools and strategies for making better decisions.

  • 5 YouTube Videos That Will Help Your Students Make Better Decisions

    You don’t have to wait until your students are facing a big decision to introduce Decision Education resources. The videos included in this post expose the hidden influences on our judgments and decisions. Students will learn a handful of strategies from...

  • School Initiatives Going Nowhere Fast? Try Premortems

    Want to stop the cycle of initiative fatigue? Ask your administrators to work with teachers to conduct premortems.

  • Prevent Teacher Burnout with Decision Skills

    Although there’s no way to avoid an enormous workload as a new teacher, strong decision skills can make it easier to cope.

  • Get Up to Speed About Better Decision Making with These 5 Essential Articles

    To get a primer on making better decisions in your personal and professional life, read these essential articles and share them with your colleagues as you start the conversation about introducing Decision Education at your school.

  • 3 Ways to Improve Your Classroom Culture This Year with Decision Education

    No matter what you teach, integrating these simple tips from Decision Education into your everyday classroom culture can improve your students’ study skills and cooperation with one another in ways that will continue to be useful to them in post-...

  • Decision Education Eases the High School Transition

    Decision skills can help incoming freshmen deal with the new demands in their social lives, schedules, and academics.

  • Fine-Tune Your Time Management This Year with Affective Forecasting

    Affective forecasting can improve three sneaky time mismanagements that plague even the most conscientious teachers.

  • How We Got Over 6,000 Students Interested in Decision Education

    Teaching Decision Education doesn’t require you to toss out your existing lesson plans or tell students what’s “right.”

  • Guest Post: Helping K-12 Students Make Better Choices

    Delta School District in British Columbia explores possibilities for systemic changes in students’ individual and collective choice-making skills.

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