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Emily Donovan
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Visuals, Structure, and Routines, Oh My!
Three strategies consistently successful: visuals,
Emily Donovan
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Restorative Practices: The latest trend in school initiatives or the power to transform school culture?
For nearly two decades, I worked within schools on the challenging behavior team. When asked what I did for a living, instead of delving...
Emily Donovan
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Mind Shift: Moving on from Anxious Thoughts
The multitasking myth has been busted. Neuroscience research indicates that our brain can’t do two things at once. When we think we are...
Emily Donovan
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Beyond Resolutions: Navigating the New Year with Vision, Values, and Virtue
Are you one of those individuals who set New Year's resolutions? A friend posed this question to me during our coffee chat last week. In...
Emily Donovan
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Not Even for a Million Dollars
If you offered me $1,000,000 to solve a calculus problem, I couldn't do it. I would try with every ounce of my being to solve it because...
Emily Donovan
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The Problem with Self Care
I haven’t had a normal nights’ sleep in at least a week. My body hurts, I can’t get comfortable. My mind is racing with thoughts. I...
Emily Donovan
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Time and Place
Have you ever been advised to "choose your battles" or pondered, "Is this really the hill I want to die on?" These are common phrases...
Emily Donovan
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World Kindness Day is Good for You
Guess what day it is?! That’s right, it's World Kindness Day! (My apologies to all of you who got your hopes up thinking it might be...
Emily Donovan
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The Fish Intervention Part 2: It wasn't about the fish
I know you’ve been dying to know if Guppie, the beta fish, survived the summer in my care. Well, it did…barely...
Emily Donovan
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The Fish Intervention
My inbox dinged with a new referral. It was for a sixth-grade girl who wasn’t coming to school...
Emily Donovan
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Education: A Calling
Tonight we ordered my daughter’s senior pictures. It's a beginning to all of the “lasts” of her senior year of high school. We are...
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