Lisa Rivero M.A.

Who Is the Aaron Swartz in Your Life?

Young people can often fool others into thinking they are more self-reliant, more confident, and more emotionally resilient than they are.

Young people can often fool others into thinking they are more self-reliant, more confident, and more emotionally resilient than they are.

That Gratitude Thing Not Working Out for You?

Being able to feel and to express gratitude has been shown to make us both happier and healthier. One important factor, however, may influence whether the practice of gratitude actually does us any good.

Being able to feel and to express gratitude has been shown to make us both happier and healthier. One important factor, however, may influence whether the practice of gratitude actually does us any good.

This Fall, Get in the Swing of Doing Less

A commitment to doing less is not easy in our current productivity-obsessed culture and even takes some courage. The potential pay-off, however, is nothing less than life-changing.

A commitment to doing less is not easy in our current productivity-obsessed culture and even takes some courage. The potential pay-off, however, is nothing less than life-changing.

Your Creative Summer

I am sharing here twelve TED Talks for twelve weeks of a more creative summer. Some of the presentations are specifically about creativity, while others inform us about one or more of the six ”high-touch and high-concept aptitudes” or senses that Pink says are crucial for the conceptual age in which we live.

I am sharing here twelve TED Talks for twelve weeks of a more creative summer. Some of the presentations are specifically about creativity, while others inform us about one or more of the six ”high-touch and high-concept aptitudes” or senses that Pink says are crucial for the conceptual age in which we live.

Education Reform, One Assignment at a Time

Barbara Clark reminds us that “under the threat of grades, bright students balk at venturing into the unknown or trying any area in which they are not sure they will succeed.” The resulting perfectionism and risk-aversion, far from lessening in college, can cause university students to focus on grades to the exclusion of deep, personal, creative learning.

Barbara Clark reminds us that “under the threat of grades, bright students balk at venturing into the unknown or trying any area in which they are not sure they will succeed.” The resulting perfectionism and risk-aversion, far from lessening in college, can cause university students to focus on grades to the exclusion of deep, personal, creative learning.

High School Years: College Prep or Life Prep?

It takes courage for parents to put college prep into a broader perspective during our children’s teenage years, especially when friends and family believe that admission to specific schools is the only validation of potential.

It takes courage for parents to put college prep into a broader perspective during our children’s teenage years, especially when friends and family believe that admission to specific schools is the only validation of potential.

Mister Rogers' Emotional Neighborhood

While there are many different definitions of emotional intelligence, they all include being able to recognize, identify, or perceive one’s own emotions. The idea is simple, but the regular practice of staying with our feelings long enough to know them is often very difficult.

While there are many different definitions of emotional intelligence, they all include being able to recognize, identify, or perceive one’s own emotions. The idea is simple, but the regular practice of staying with our feelings long enough to know them is often very difficult.

Be More Creative Today

While we individually cannot do much to change our educational system or paradigms right now, we can change our approach to creativity today in our homes and classrooms, including these five mindsets and habits that parents and teachers can to use encourage children of all ages, and ourselves, to hang on to and nurture our innate creative capacity.

While we individually cannot do much to change our educational system or paradigms right now, we can change our approach to creativity today in our homes and classrooms, including these five mindsets and habits that parents and teachers can to use encourage children of all ages, and ourselves, to hang on to and nurture our innate creative capacity.

The Self-Education of Oscar Micheaux

Whether his achievements were the result of talent or practice or something else entirely, one trait stands out as allowing Oscar Micheaux to pursue his successive dreams: He was willing to be the oddball and to appear foolish in others’ eyes.

Whether his achievements were the result of talent or practice or something else entirely, one trait stands out as allowing Oscar Micheaux to pursue his successive dreams: He was willing to be the oddball and to appear foolish in others’ eyes.

Many Ages at Once

Gifted children will not necessarily fit comfortably within a group of age peers or meet usual expectations in terms of their development. For young children, this lack of fit may lead to misdiagnoses or premature diagnoses of learning and other disorders.

Gifted children will not necessarily fit comfortably within a group of age peers or meet usual expectations in terms of their development. For young children, this lack of fit may lead to misdiagnoses or premature diagnoses of learning and other disorders.