by Leonie Haimson, executive director of the nonprofit Class Size Matters, and founder of the NYC Public School Parent blog. Across the country, class sizes are increasing at unprecedented rates. An estimated 58,000 teachers were laid off in September, at the same...
By Boyan and Copeland Freeing Responses Freeing responses are those responses from the listener that tend to make the speaker talk more freely, provide more information, and give the listener more insight. The major types of Freeing Responses are: Clarifying...
by Price Pritchett, Chicken Soup for the Soul I’m sitting in a quiet room at the Milcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It’s just past noon, late July, and I’m listening to the desperate...
