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Character Strengths, Integrity, and My Three-Year-Old

November 7, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 9 Comments

As I was brushing Laura’s teeth last Saturday morning, which happened to be the morning of Halloween, I listened to her titter about how excited she was because, later that day, she was “gonna be Anna!!!” from Frozen. As we were talking about it, I wanted to remind her that it was her Grandpa and Grandma Stuart who had bought the […]

21 Ideas for Developing the Motivational Character Strengths

September 29, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 4 Comments

In “The Character Strengths and Motivation,” I laid out the 4.5 character strengths that I consider motivational in nature, and, at the end of the post, I laid out an example of the kind of “self-experimentation” we can use to learn how to teach our students to develop the “motivational strengths” in themselves (because marshaling one’s […]

Helping Students Understand Motivation: The Character Strengths Angle

September 22, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 3 Comments

This past Tuesday, I ended “Truths about Student Motivation” with a question: what are the tools and strategies that can equip our students to muster up the motivation required to get them from where they are to where they aspire to be? This is constantly in my mind during these first weeks of school; I’ve […]

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