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Holiday Luncheon-Mindfulness During the Holidays!
Gather with your TFI colleagues at the lovely Duke Mansion to celebrate the holidays and learn how to make this season even more enjoyable by learning how to use mindfulness during this busy season with Kathryn Kokones from The Dragonfly Experiment!
Find out more »Personal Resilience for Teaching Professionals with Dr. Linda Hoopes
Dr. Linda Hoopes—Developing Personal Resilience Program Overview: Teachers have an important role in supporting and nurturing the resilience of their students. At the same time, they are often facing significant challenges in and out of the classroom that call on their own resilience. In this half-day workshop, we will discuss common and uncommon challenges in the lives of participants, and explore four building blocks of personal resilience that help you successfully address them: calming yourself, selecting strategies, solving problems,…
Find out more »TFI 2019 Summer Symposium-Passion, Purpose and Perseverance
TFI's Class of 2019 will convene for the first time for our 2019 Summer Symposium-Passion, Purpose and Perseverance! Passion, Purpose, and Perseverance No doubt, you have been told to “find your passion” or even “follow your bliss”, and perhaps you have even gone as far to pass on this allegedly sage advice to your children. Yet in doing so, we may be unknowingly setting them up for failure by sending them on a wild goose chase or in search of…
Find out more »Teaching Fellows Institute Free Parent and Community Talk- Passion, Purpose and Perseverance
Passion, Purpose, and Perseverance No doubt, you have been told to “find your passion” or even “follow your bliss”, and perhaps you have even gone as far to pass on this allegedly sage advice to your children. Yet in doing so, we may be unknowingly setting them up for failure by sending them on a wild goose chase or in search of buried treasure. Instead of “finding” our passions as if they were lost, research suggests that we should instead…
Find out more »TFI’s Summer 2019 Alumni Workshop – Passion, Purpose and Perseverance
TFI's Alumni Fellows will have the opportunity to gather for a one day workshop with Prof. Brian Housand and learn how to bring Passion, Purpose and Perseverance to their lives and their students' lives! Passion, Purpose, and Perseverance No doubt, you have been told to “find your passion” or even “follow your bliss”, and perhaps you have even gone as far to pass on this allegedly sage advice to your children. Yet in doing so, we may be unknowingly setting…
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