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Mixed Emotions

... two-thirds of teachers at public primary and secondary schools felt ill-equipped to help their students with mental health issues, and SAMH is calling for a government program to train staff how to support their students’ mental and emotional wellbeing. Some schools are taking it upon themselves to prepare their teachers. A district education initiative in Kearney, NE required public school teachers to attend a workshop focused on helping with the social and emotional development of students; an ...

Alternative Education

... -driven causes by simply educating consumers about what these youth are doing to create change around a cause, or have done in the past, that has moved the needle in some form?One example would be the youth-lead efforts to enact change in regards to gun policies. Two years after the mass shooting at Parkland’s Stoneman Douglas High School, the March for our Lives Movement that formed in the wake of that tragedy continues to inspire a new generation of youth activism. Instead of stating your stance on ...

Home & Away Retail Trends

... two-fold: they can carry out the necessary back-office operations a co-working spaces provides, and they can vend their products at the same location, testing developments in real time with the foot traffic the physical retail hubs bring in. When not at work/school, six in 10 Trendsetters in the UK (62%) and just over half in the U.S. (53%) typically go to stores/the mall, providing the previously-aforementioned foot traffic that propagates the existence of the mall/co-working hybrid.Rent The ...

Always Be Hustling

... with feeling burnt out. This ubiquitous, always-on state of mind in approach to work and school has led to burnout for many young people today, and this mentality isn’t limited to only desk jobs. When conducting qualitative research, we surveyed young people from a variety of careers—in healthcare, construction, education, the arts, and more—and found that the issue of burnout and the response of hustle to address a lack of motivation or fulfillment were similar across industries ...

Overboredom

... childhood; if they started to get antsy, they were handed a smartphone or tablet to distract them rather than tough it out. Meanwhile, the older among them have hopped from one after-school activity to the next to accommodate parents’ busy schedules, leaving little room for unstructured free time. The idea of having nothing to do feels foreign and uncomfortable, but since they have new tools at their disposal, they can convert that discomfort into productivity. In 2015, we uncovered that 89% of U.S. Zs ...

K-Pressure

... begins at age six when they enter primary school. In Japan, the grueling college entrance exams that high school students take (and spend half of their lives preparing for) are known as juken jigoku, or “examination hell.” For Ys in these countries, stress begins at a young age and first centers on school performance. But as they get older, the pressure grows and infiltrates all aspects of their lives. Fostered by government, teachers, businesses, and “Tiger Moms” (who are common throughout Asia ...

Major Dads

... drive him off to school.  This is more convenient for me to do, as I work from home and can perform more activities during my lunch break and this includes errands and being involved at our son’s school and taking him to Little League and soccer practice. Moreover, we both attend his games and will take turns assisting him with his homework and seeing that he maintains good grades. We split parenting responsibilities the way we do in order to minimize stress and to create a balanced workload ...

Digital Wellbeing Movement

... the point of missing school, withdrawing from family and social life, and playing for half-day stretches at a time are the extreme, but they are compelling the gaming industry to respond and pushing young people to examine their gaming tendencies. In the same way people binge-watch television or fall down the social media rabbit hole, excessive gaming has become an acceptable “bad habit”—but like anything in excess, unbridled gaming can have serious repercussions. Not only have the games ...

Life Skills

... alternative curriculums and extracurricular activities that many public schools can no longer be relied upon to provide. The school system has largely become tailored to training students as test takers, first and foremost. And though areas like Home Economics, Shop, and the Arts are starting to make a comeback in affluent communities, in most of the U.S. they are increasingly being dropped. At the same time, many Zs are struggling unprecedentedly with issues of time management. Assuming adult attitudes ...

Gen Z Micro Trends

... more than 50,000 Twitter followers. She also runs a popular blog, Library Voice, and uses both these platforms to offer reading recommendations. Mr. Schu John Schumacher is an Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic and has amassed a strong social media following through his school visits and lecture series. Mr. Schu has almost 47,000 Twitter followers, who eagerly await his information about new releases and popular authors.  ...