﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Cision News</title><link>https://news.cision.com</link><description>Cision is the leading global provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services. With over 40 locations throughout the world, Cision provides the insight, expertise and intelligence that improve performance and build reputations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:38:30 GMT</pubDate><image><title>Cision News</title><width>146</width><height>60</height><link>https://news.cision.com</link><url>https://news.cision.com/Content/img/news-logo.png</url></image><item><title>Bus Monitor Crisis in New York</title><link>http://news.cision.com/lesson-one/r/bus-monitor-crisis-in-new-york,c9276597</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision510900</guid><description><![CDATA[How to teach self-control to all adults and children.

What an entire community is doing to teach self-control to adults and children.
Jon Oliver has been invited to the White House to demonstrate how he has successfully taught self-control to adults and kids and has also been invited to demonstrate his work with Bill Cosby at Temple University, who also recommended his book.  His work has aslo been recommended by Dr. Alvin Poussaint of Harvard, Dr. James Comer of Yale, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense fund, among others in the field of education, health and justice.  Oliver,]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:53:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ending School Violence</title><link>http://news.cision.com/lesson-one/r/ending-school-violence,c9225716</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision457881</guid><description><![CDATA[The two recent events in Chardon, OH and Long Beach, CA where students have died at the hands of their classmates are another example of today's culture of violence spinning out of control.
In both cases of recent school violence, signs were missed where prevention and intervention could have been employed.  While the media has focused on the incidents themselves, it's also important to look at what is being done for prevention and intervention around the country.  The non-profit educational organization, Lesson One, has been working with schools and communities nationally to teach self-]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:37:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mistakes Happen…in school, life and football.</title><link>http://news.cision.com/lesson-one/r/mistakes-happen-in-school--life-and-football-,c9211117</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision442779</guid><description><![CDATA[Making sense of the death threats aimed at professional football players who made mistakes.
While professional football players are receiving death threats for the mistakes made in recent championship games, imagine the message this sends to today’s children trying to navigate academic and social challenges. With all of the anti-bullying messages being touted in classrooms, here is another example of adults thinking it is okay to bully, via social media, a complete and total stranger. How do we make this into a teachable moment for our children?

I will try my best. Even when I make]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:53:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Omaha School Shooting:  What can be done?</title><link>http://news.cision.com/lesson-one/r/omaha-school-shooting--what-can-be-done-,g536167</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision290814</guid><description><![CDATA[We are all horrified by yesterday’s tragic shooting death of a school principal in Omaha and others like it.  How do we deal with a child’s rage that leads to murder and suicide? What can be done to make schools and communities safer and make school and life connect?
Boston, MA January 7, 2011-We must teach all children, from preschool to high school skills such as self-control and self-confidence to help change the culture.  This can be done tangibly and Lesson One has been working with schools and communities and making strides in reducing bullying and making dramatic changes in school]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:39:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Make 2011 the Year Resolutions Stick</title><link>http://news.cision.com/lesson-one/r/how-to-make-2011-the-year-resolutions-stick,g535414</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision290381</guid><description><![CDATA[BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 29, 2010 -- So many adults make New Year’s resolutions that revolve around diet, exercise and quitting unhealthy habits.  All of these take an enormous amount of self-control.  It also takes self-control for both children and adults to refrain from bullying, meanness and fighting.  This year, why not make it a family exercise to learn more about self-control and use it daily?  The word self-control gets thrown around a lot but is hard to explain what it means.
Jon Oliver, author of “Lesson One: The ABCs of Life” and founder of the non-profit Lesson One says, “we need to]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:31:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Congratulations to NBC on bringing needed attention to the topic of education through your Education Nation week.</title><link>http://news.cision.com/lesson-one/r/congratulations-to-nbc-on-bringing-needed-attention-to-the-topic-of-education-through-your-education-nation-week-,g513011</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision275492</guid><description><![CDATA[Congratulations to NBC on bringing needed attention to the topic of education through your Education Nation week.

This is a subject I feel passionately about as founder and director of Lesson One, a non-profit dedicated to teaching skills such as self-control to help children survive and succeed in and out of school.  Our work has been commended by Bill Cosby, Marian Wright-Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund, and Dr. Alvin Poussiant of Harvard, among others. 

This past Tuesday, we were astounded at the similarities between what President Obama said during his “Back to School”]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:27:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IF TODAY’S ADULTS ARE OUT-OF-CONTROL, WHAT ABOUT OUR CHILDREN?</title><link>http://news.cision.com/lesson-one/r/if-today-s-adults-are-out-of-control--what-about-our-children-,g506389</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision271459</guid><description><![CDATA[The recent JetBlue incident involving out of control behaviors on the part of both a passenger and flight attendant says a lot about our culture.  The rudeness and lack of respect the passenger had for the flight attendant is an example of others not treating people the way they would want to be treated.  The lack of self-control exhibited by the flight attendant also shows how more and more people “snap” due to job stress and the overall stress of daily life.

Adults are not the only ones having such a difficult time dealing with the challenges of everyday life…children are too.  Even in]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:55:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>BACK TO SCHOOL WITH SELF-CONTROL</title><link>http://news.cision.com/lesson-one/r/back-to-school-with-self-control,g505831</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision271146</guid><description><![CDATA[77% of students are bullied physically, verbally and mentally. (ABC News)

Pre-K students are expelled at more than 3 times the rate of K-12 students. (Yale University Study Center)

Every 9 seconds in America a student becomes a dropout. (American Youth Policy Forum)

This is a crisis and an epidemic. What can educators, parents, guardians and children do? Jon Oliver, author and founder of Lesson One: The ABCs of Life, provides a remedy to alleviate this dangerous epidemic.

“All children must learn empathy, self-control and stress reduction, just as they learn reading and math,”]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:37:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>