During the preteen years, ages 9 to 13, children experience numerous changes and transitions including the move from elementary to middle school. What can parents and teachers do to help preteens succeed in school with confidence and minimal stress? Guests: Denise Pope, PhD, Founder and Director of SOS: Stressed Out Students at Stanford University and author of “Doing School”: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, Damion McNeil, History Teacher at Willard Middle School in the Berkeley Unified School District, and sixth grader Zoe Yi.
