Author: Erin Baldecchi

I have been in education for more than 20 years as a teacher, administrator, facilitator of professional development for schools, wife of a head of school, and parent. Surrounded by people, deeply enmeshed in a community, I've spent my entire career studying happiness without even knowing it. Then one day I noticed. I discovered the science of happiness through Positive Psychology, and I found my passion. I received my Certificate of Applied Positive Psychology from The Flourishing Center in New York, NY, and I am currently becoming a certified life coach. My passion is to introduce Positive Psychology to communities and schools and to help implement practical tools into individual lives and classrooms. Positive Psychology can impact the very individuals responsible for raising compassionate, engaged, achieving, and resilient kids. There is something for everyone in this science of happiness, and teaching it gives me great happiness too.
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Belonging

Erin Baldecchi

As teachers, you see every day how much a sense of belonging matters to kids and to all of us. We act differently when we believe that we belong. The classroom is a wonderful place to establish a sense of belonging for everyone. This can be done through rituals that you create among the students.… Continue reading Belonging

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Gratitude

Erin Baldecchi

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey Chris Peterson and Martin Seligman (the founders of Positive Psychology) define gratitude as, “A sense of thankfulness and joy in response to receiving a gift whether the… Continue reading Gratitude