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TLC: Kindness in the Classroom: Kind Conflict Resolution
“If conflict is a normal, natural part of life, it’s really important to look at how we deal with it.” – Ann McKnight This final post in the “Kindness in the Classroom” series culminates with a brief look at how teachers can facilitate kind and effective conflict resolution between students in the classroom. Previously the…
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TLC: Waving Back–3 Wholehearted Ways to Building Connection
Building a connection, a genuine connection is one of the things human beings crave the most – yet the fear of rejection often keeps us from taking the risks necessary to find the connection we long for. Brad Platt’s song “Waving Through the Window” vividly describes this internal conflict: “I’ve learned to slam on the…
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TLC: Helping Students Master Decision-Making: 4 Simple Questions
Students often struggle with making meaningful decisions. If they lack a simple framework to help them make decisions, everyday life can become increasingly frustrating and students can find themselves making hasty choices that can cause other problems and limit options in the future. This simple 4-question framework—which works great verbally, on paper, or on a…
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TLC – Top 5 TED Talks for School Counselors
School counselors have borne the brunt of much of the turbulence experienced in education over the last few years. These five TED Talks speak to some of the biggest challenges school counselors face. Self-Care: What It Really Is | Susannah Winters Susannah shares how she learned that if she wanted to be successful in her…
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Kindness in the Classroom: Facilitating Student-to-Student Kindness
Sixty seconds before they step into the classroom, students are gearing up to engage. How are they preparing themselves for the vulnerability required to master new skills or to make mistakes in front of their peers? To respond to challenges and critiques? To rebound constructively when impacted by the mistakes and missteps of others? With…
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TLC: 4 Powerful Ways Parents Can Express Love to Their Kids
“Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable…. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.” — From The World According To Mr. Rogers If Mr. Rogers was right, how can parents help their children and teens feel genuinely…
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Leading Humanely Through Change: 3 Keys to Transition and Thrive
Processing change can be difficult in the best of times, but the last few years have presented enormous challenges and substantial change in many aspects of our personal and professional lives. With so much change happening outside of people’s control, what can leaders do to help their teams, organizations, and communities to feel supported and…
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TLC – The One Freedom that Builds Resilience ANYWHERE
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Victor Frankl These words perfectly describe what it means to be resilient. In times of crisis, resilient people can be spotted in a crowd…
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TLC–Kindness in the Classroom: Modeling Self-Kindness for Students
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice It may be tougher than ever for teachers to model self-kindness and be kind to themselves. The pressures and expectations teachers face today have only grown with the increasing needs of…
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TLC – The Transformational Power of a Dream
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘s legacy is one of the most inspiring contemporary examples of the transformational power in devoting one’s time, energy, and talents to the pursuit of a dream— and the extraordinary impact such actions can have when they become communal efforts to improve lives and positively change our world. In a…
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TLC – Reducing Student Anxiety as a School Counselor
While some students view January as an opportunity to verbalize their hopes and dreams for the coming year, many others enter the new year struggling with anxiety. Coming out of the holidays and looking at the unknowns associated with the months ahead, student anxiety can pique in this month. Student anxiety and depression levels are…
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The Lincoln Center: Reflection Activities to Build Mindfulness of the Past and Coming Year
Between now and the end of January, we commonly create lists of “resolutions” that range from aspirational dreams to concrete, measurable goals. Then, as the year progresses and the motivation fades—we revert to old patterns and the cycle continues. When we reframe our new year transition by looking for what is most important, we can…
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TLC: Your Life Is Not a Holiday Movie, and That’s OK
The latest holiday movie just started and even if it’s the first time we’ve seen it, we all know what to expect: holiday magic will work its spell on everyone in the town, and just in time, everything will work out perfectly. In the holiday movie, the hero falls in love, the antagonist has a…
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DELCO Careers: TLC
The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth (“TLC”) in Audubon is a social enterprise company serving the Greater Philadelphia Area for over 50 years. Founded in 1970 and incorporated in 1983, TLC is an entrepreneurial nonprofit providing innovative education, coaching, and counseling services to public school students and their families. Lincoln Center positions cover a…
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TLC: Meditative Moments: Taking Time for Yourself This December
The holiday season can be a magical time of year, full of festivities and traditions that bring loved ones together. However, it can also be an incredibly stressful time as we juggle commitments and try to fit everything into the last few weeks of the year. Amidst all of the hustle and bustle, it’s important…
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TLC – Trust and Authentic Engagement Pt. 2: “Open Trust-Building Conversations”
In Part 1 of this “Trust and Engagement” series, we discussed strategies to help school counselors build and restore student trust where it would not evolve naturally, particularly in diverse school environments. Since trust grows to the extent that each student feels meaningfully supported by their counselor, it can be challenging for counselors to sustainably…
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TLC – Trust and Authentic Engagement Pt. 1: “A Restorative Approach to Student-Counselor Trust”
Current realities that school counselors face make it extremely difficult for them to build sufficient rapport and trust with students, making the goal of authentic engagement seem unattainable. Fundamental recommendations to build a baseline of rapport can be helpful, but how can school counselors move deeper to meaningfully connect with students while navigating the demands…
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Lincoln Center Named ‘2022 Top-Rated Nonprofit’
The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth (TLC) has been named a “2022 Top-Rated Nonprofit” by GreatNonprofits, the leading website for community recommendations of charities and nonprofits. TLC is an entrepreneurial nonprofit providing innovative education, coaching, and counseling services to individuals and families, as well as grant writing and management services for school districts and…
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