Brian Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H, and the 2017 New Hampshire Secondary School Principal of the Year. He is also an author for the educational publisher Solution Tree, with a book on competency education that will be available later this year. He is a strong advocate of personalized learning, competency-based grading and assessment, and high school redesign for the 21st century. He has BA and BS degrees from Boston University in mathematics and secondary math education and an M.Ed. degree from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in education administration. Brian has presented his education reform and redesign work in conferences and think tanks from coast to coast. He lives with his wife and five children on the New Hampshire Seacoast. Follow him on Twitter
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Erica L. Stack is a mother of five, a teacher, a mindfulness and meditation coach, and a reiki practitioner. She received her BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and her M.Ed. in Special Education from Lesley University in Boston. She is currently an elementary school special education teacher in the Raymond, N.H. School District.
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Monday, December 02, 2019
Imagine arriving home from work each day and being confronted with tasks to complete as soon as you walk through the door. As adults, we typically have a little bit of time to "decompress" after a long day. Now more than ever, in a society where we are expected to be executing one task while simultaneously thinking of the next one, we as adults need time to be mindful. Children are rarely afforded these mindful opportunities, and that needs to change. They often sit on a loud bus, enter their classroom, and are expected to get right to their morning work.
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Monday, February 01, 2016
​Parents of today want their children to be the best, the fastest and the smartest. In pursuit of meeting these goals, many schools have added more time for instruction and testing for core content areas. The added time often comes at the expense of recess, physical education, and many other forms of movement breaks and activities. As parents of five children under the age of 10, we see the impact of this shift in our own community school each and every day.
