Success in the classroom is what every teacher strives for, but not all achieve. They pour their hearts and souls into the profession, devote long hours with minimal pay, and have the best of intentions, but in the end, almost never achieve extra-ordinary results. What is the difference between teachers who are extraordinary, the ones who have this flow, this rapport, this routine and style and the teachers who struggle with everything from classroom management to participation, to just making any type progress in general? In other words, what makes a great teacher great? That has been my...

The body's stress response system dates back to early man. In prehistoric times, humans needed stress as a way to keep them on their toes and alive. Today however, things are not as dramatic, for the stress we usually deal with doesn't involve life and death or anything near that extreme. But yet many times, our thinking creates big things from small, minute things, causing our response systems to over react. Not only that, sex, drugs, violence, and negativity are all abundantly available through the media, Internet, friends and coworkers keeping us away from our greatness. We have been...