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Three Ways Teachers Can Kick-Start Social-Emotional Learning During Back-to-School
Back-to-school can be a stressful time for students and teachers alike. Students may be upset, worried, or restless as they adjust to a new schedule, and teachers have to manage all of these emotions while dealing with their own stress. Since the first few days...
Three Ways Teachers Can Kick-Start Social-Emotional Learning During Back-to-School
Back-to-school can be a stressful time for students and teachers alike. Students may be upset, worried, or restless as they adjust to a new schedule, and teachers have to manage all of these emotions while dealing with their own stress. Since the first few days...
Metal Detectors & Armed Teachers? or SEL Solutions for Safer Schools?
Become a Catalyst for Change! We believe in prevention over intervention. Interventions is costly (the equipment, staff and emotional impact) while not solving for the root causes. We support the school districts looking towards Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) to...
The Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Recess
Recess is a time for students to let loose and simply enjoy being children for a while. It provides a crucial period of respite in a heavily structured routine that involves lots of sitting still and listening. It also plays an important role in children’s...
The Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Recess
Recess is a time for students to let loose and simply enjoy being children for a while. It provides a crucial period of respite in a heavily structured routine that involves lots of sitting still and listening. It also plays an important role in children’s...
How Social-Emotional Learning Helps Students Cope with Mental Health Issues
Social-emotional learning is all about teaching children how to manage their emotions so they can handle real-life challenges. While these skills can and should be taught in schools, these same schools can also be a significant source of stress for students on both...
How Social-Emotional Learning Helps Students Cope with Mental Health Issues
Social-emotional learning is all about teaching children how to manage their emotions so they can handle real-life challenges. While these skills can and should be taught in schools, these same schools can also be a significant source of stress for students on both...
Three Fun Ways to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Social-emotional learning (SEL) should be relaxing. We believe that relaxed teachers teach better, and relaxed students learn better. Attempts to incorporate SEL into the classroom will be less successful if teachers are stressed or students are bored. The key to...
Three Ways Teachers Benefit from Teaching Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Ask any teacher, and they’ll tell you teaching is a stressful job. Not only do teachers need to manage a classroom full of children, they also have to handle administrative paperwork, parent emails, curriculum development, extracurricular responsibilities, and more....
Three Ways Teachers Benefit from Teaching Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Ask any teacher, and they’ll tell you teaching is a stressful job. Not only do teachers need to manage a classroom full of children, they also have to handle administrative paperwork, parent emails, curriculum development, extracurricular responsibilities, and more....
What Is Social-Emotional Learning, and Why Is It Important in the Classroom?
Everyone agrees that schools are responsible for educating young people, but what does this education consist of? Skills like reading, writing, and math are important, but students need more than academic skills to succeed in life. Parents, teachers, and students...
Why Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Should Start in Preschool
Parents, teachers, and students alike agree that social-emotional learning (SEL) should be an essential part of classroom curriculum. But how early should this kind of instruction begin in order for it to be most effective? A study by Greenberg et. al. concludes that...
Self-Care Tips for Preventing & Battling the Flu
According to the map of influenza in the United States, there's a good chance that you or someone you know has experienced, or will experience this year's strain: H3N2. Stay at least three feet away from anyone who is coughing or sneezing. Keep your hands away from...
Child Friendly Meditation for Your Kids
Child Friendly Meditation for Your Kids When most of us picture meditation, it doesn't involve children. Perhaps it's time for that image to change. For those who have practiced meditation for any length of time, the benefits to health and wellbeing become obvious....
Read more“Not only are there benefits to teen yoga, but those who decide to take up the practice find that they enjoy it. In the same study, nearly 75 percent of the teens that took yoga stated that they would like to continue.”
Reduce Teen Stress with Yoga
Reduce Teen Stress with Yoga Not everyone enjoys their teen years and, even those who do have some typical bumps in the road. Teenagers have busy schedules, academic pressure, physical and hormonal changes, and social issues to deal with almost on a daily basis. There...
Not Only for Kids, Teachers Benefits from Yoga Too
Not only for kids, Teachers benefits from Yoga too By now, you are probably well aware that yoga has some excellent benefits for children in the classroom. Yoga - even easy yoga for beginners - can help reduce anxiety and improve focus in students. Many schools have...
Why Schools Should Replace Detention with Mindful Meditation
Why Schools should replace detention with Mindful Meditation If you've ever attended a public school, you are no doubt familiar with detention. It's been the go-to punishment for misbehaving students practically for as long as there have been schools in the United...
Healing Power of Yoga for Children and Youth
Healing Power of Yoga for Children and Youth There are more than 20 million Americans who already practice yoga in this country in some form, because they are aware of the benefits of decreased stress and much greater flexibility, as well as an increased ability to...
Social Benefits of Yoga for Children
Social Benefits of Yoga for Children Kundalini yoga was at the center of a study conducted by the University of Nottingham recently, and the study sought to determine the effect that the regular practice of yoga would have on communities of children which have...
8 Ways Kids Benefit from Yoga
8 Ways Kids Benefit from Yoga There are more distractions than ever before today for young children, and many of them are not seen as positive influences. Cellphone usage for instance, has penetrated down even to the youngest levels, and many of the youngest kids have...
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