Mick Duffy, Author at Rewriting Futures (New Legacy Foundation)

A New Normal Amidst COVID-19 (Free Download)

We’re living in extraordinary times. Like the rest of the world, you likely find yourself in crisis management mode to some degree. You may feel stuck or even trapped. It’s hard. We feel some of the same things. What this…

Mick DuffyApril 8, 2020

Children Teachers

Cultivating a Culture of Overcoming

Recently, I gathered with an after-school club of seventh and eighth grade students to talk about the stress and anxiety that they face in the course of everyday living... We started with a simple data-gathering exercise. Each student identified three…

Mick DuffyFebruary 6, 2020

Rewriting Futures

Welcome Back!

This is always an exciting time of the year. Whether they are willing to admit it or not, students are ready to slide back into the school groove. If not ready to learn, they are ready to reconnect with friends…

Mick DuffyAugust 19, 2019

Administrators Children Teachers

3 Steps to Help Students Leverage Difficulties

The adversity and challenge that so many of our students face is almost incomprehensible. Culture and society have changed drastically. This generation has lived more life before adolescence than some in generations prior have lived in a lifetime. Not so…

Mick DuffyJune 11, 2019

Children

Considering the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Malleability is among the most prominent characteristics of a child. From birth and even in utero, the unique qualities of a child are being formed. Everything that a child experiences from life in the womb through adolescence is shaping him…

Mick DuffyMay 14, 2019

Rewriting Futures Teachers

The Importance of Protecting Your Investment: 5 Steps

You are an incredible person. How do I know? Well, I see where you’ve chosen to invest. Some days you probably feel like a super hero, but I am guessing that most days you feel very human. You go home…

Mick DuffyApril 5, 2019

Administrators Children Rewriting Futures Teachers

Rewrite the future.

It’s an incredible world that we live in. We are more advanced scientifically and technologically than at any time in human history. We can travel to the farthest reaches of the globe quickly and comfortably. In recent years scientists and…

Mick DuffyMarch 21, 2019

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