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How to deal with teacher bullies is the topic of this article. Posts to social media platforms like Tik Tok, Twitter, and Instagram are flooded with images of teachers and professors who are alleged to have bullied their students. Does anyone know how prevalent the harassment of students by teachers? It may be an under-researched. […]
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist This article offers six tips for success I use to instill in students during group sessions, individual counseling, and mentoring. As I advise kids up to young adults and offer real world and professional advice on success strategies, I often reflect about advocates using a differing viewpoint. Some […]
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist According to EdWeek “school districts in urban areas and those that serve the most children in poverty are the most likely to be offering full-time remote instruction,” related to the COVID-19. Not to be brushed aside, students living in rural, sparsely populated communities, says PBS, are “profoundly isolated […]
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist Parents of college age students eagerly welcomed them back into our ’empty nest’ households, home school, remote learning environment on the account of COVID-19. We found ourselves, however, perplexed by the political and economic ideologies adopted by our returning young adults. “What happened? Do I know you? Are […]
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist Now that a majority of public and private schools have resumed in-person instruction for improved learning, many parents still struggle with concerns about the loss of academic learning of their kids. For instance, EdTrust conducted a survey which found that 9 out of 10 parents are concerned that […]
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist Continued shutdown orders got you down? Me too. But, for highly functioning individuals with decades of experience meeting the challenges of economic downturns, chronic underemployment and high debt; we have honed our coping strategies to effectively confront them. So if you dare to think that as a 40-year-old […]
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist The adolescent period has been expanded to include the mid-twenties. Yes, that is right. The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine defines adolescence as the onset of puberty to mid-twenties. Puberty according to child development experts is the time in life when a boy or girl becomes […]
Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist, CHFI, CFE According to a recent survey, state stay at home orders and wide scale quarantining of families are causing a lot of stress for many parents. Eighty-three percent of the surveyed parents indicated that their child’s school was closed, Twenty-five percent reported that they experienced more conflicts […]
Tonya Mead, CHFI, CFE, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist For the new home school adherents, there is a science to giving thanks in bad times. Today we’ll present exercises and lessons for instilling gratitude within your child and/or student (if you’d like additional activity ideas, expertly curated by a School Psychologist) please visit my Amazon […]
By: Tonya Mead, PhD, MBA, M.Ed, School Psychologist The publications, Inside Higher Education and Education Week report upon studies finding that hope is a strong predictor of student success outside of educational history. How might one define hope? The Webster’s dictionary says, hope is “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to […]