by SEL Specialist | May 11, 2018 | Exercise, Health, Kids, mindfulness, School, Social-Emotional Learning
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...
by SEL Specialist | May 11, 2018 | Exercise, Health, Kids, mindfulness, School, Social-Emotional Learning
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...
by SEL Specialist | Feb 10, 2018 | Exercise, Kids, mindfulness, School, Social-Emotional Learning
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...
by SEL Specialist | Feb 8, 2018 | Exercise, Kids, mindfulness, School
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...
by SEL Specialist | Aug 30, 2016 | School, Yoga
Yoga in Schools? There are many cliches, stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding the practice of yoga. When many picture the practice, they see hippies chanting “Oh-hmm…” while incense burns. Still some think of moms with Starbucks escaping their kids...