Too often we define teaching as "the transfer of knowledge from one person to another." This means we judge our success on how much the learner knows instead of how the learner responds. Real teaching is less a...

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In today’s age of high-stakes testing and school-safety concerns, more than ever, youth workers have increasing difficulty finding their way onto middle- and high-school campuses to interact with students...

Most of us who have any experience working with teenagers probably have too many stories of tragedy and crises affecting the students with whom we work. One of my worst experiences with teenage tragedy occurred...