If you are concerned about student depression and its
impact on the classroom, you may be interested in this:
Pursuit-of-Happiness.org, a non-profit organization
devoted to education on the scientific study of human
happiness and positive psychology, is convening a
roundtable at Yale University on Saturday, July 12.
We are in the process of constructing a multimedia
internet platform that any educator in the states (and the
world) can freely access and use in the classroom.
We are especially interested in recent scientific studies
on happiness and well-being (particularly with respect to
building student "resilience" to stress and depression)
and how they can be explored in the classroom employing a
multimedia internet platform.
At the roundtable we would like to receive feedback on
some prototype mini-lessons and activities that can be
readily integrated into existing social studies or
psychology curricula. After that we can talk about the
possibility of cooperating with a PBS documentary team
that is interested in our work in the schools.
Tentatively the meeting will run from ten in the morning
to five in the afternoon. Their is no associated fee. This
is a nonprofit enterprise running entirely on the goodwill
of volunteers based at schools and universities around the
US.
If you would like to participate in the roundtable you can
learn more about our project at Pursuit-of-Happiness.org ,
and contact me by responding to this email. I will send
you more detailed information about the roundtable and I
would of course be happy to answer related questions you
may have. Any ideas or simply reflections you might
contribute may well be used in planning our school
curricula which will reach well beyond the tristate area
(and of course be used entirely for nonprofit purposes).
Mark Setton
Pursuit-of-Happiness.org
Pursuit-of-Happiness.org is not affiliated with any
religious or political organization.
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