Reading Material

Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness
Positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar draws on the latest psychological research on how choices have a direct, long-lasting impact on our happiness.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts and almost every area of human endeavor can be influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities.

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
With the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, Dr. Dan Siegel offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg explains why habits exist and how they can be changed from exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive and achieving success.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems with a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service and human dignity.

10 Step Brain Power-Up Guide
From the website Be Brain Fit, this guide offers 10 steps to boost your thinking, memory, mood and focus.

25 Tiny Changes That Will Make You a Happier Person
Lolly Daskal, President and CEO of Lead From Within offers changes you can make to feel happier at work.

45 Simple Self-Care Practices for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
From the website Tiny Buddha, this article offers self-care practices for the mind, body and soul.

121 Employee Wellness Ideas
A list of 121 fun employee wellness program ideas that you can easily implement in your building or department.

Be Brain Fit
Read articles and other research on ways to boost your cognitive and mental health and fitness.

Change Your Habits. Change Your Life
James Clear provides self-improvement tips based on proven scientific research.

Five Ways to Be Fully Authentic
Included are tips to stay true to yourself without letting others down.

How Can Districts Help Teachers Develop Social-Emotional Skills?
District leaders share insights that in order for teachers to be effective for their students, they must take care of their own social emotional well-being.

How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain
Learn more about the research on how gratitude works to improve our mental health.

Making SEL the DNA of a School
From the Greater Good Magazine, school and district leaders share stories of how they are infusing SEL into everything they do.

Meet on Your Feet
Not all meetings must take place in an office or conference room. In fact many of the most creative moments can take place outside of them.

The Better Than Before Habits Manifesto
Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before, provides 12 tips for a habits manifesto.

The Four Tendencies Quiz
Take this quiz, developed by Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before, designed to help people learn how they respond to both outer and inner expectations.

The Pursuit of Happiness
Find articles written by psychologists, philosophers and educators from science-based information on life skills and habits needed to enhance well-being, build resilience against depression and anxiety, and pursue a meaningful life.