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Authors’ note: Dot McElhone provided research assistance, and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health provided support for this project.

To learn how one teacher reduced student stress, read the online-only article “Silence Is Golden” by Judith Gaston Fisher at www.ascd.org /publications/educational_leadership/dec09/vol67/num04/Silence_Is _Golden.aspx. EL online

Jerusha Conner is Assistant Professor of Education at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania; jerusha.conner @ villanova.edu. Denise Pope is Senior Lecturer at Stanford University in Stanford, California; dpope@stanford.edu. Mollie Galloway is Director of the Office of Research and Assessment and teaches in the Educational Leadership program in the Graduate School at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon; galloway@lclark.edu.