Become a Catalyst for Change! As the debate continues, school districts nationally are looking to Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) solutions to help strengthen student’s voice, improve student-to-teacher relationships and ultimately create safer schools With the recent increase of Title IV funds, schools can invest even more dollars in SEL to implement the block grant’s focus […]
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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 social-emotional learning. The amount of daily recess for elementary […]
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 effective SEL curriculum is getting everyone involved, and the best way to get everyone involved […]
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. Studies show that up to a startling 50% of new teachers quit the profession within five […]
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 alike tend to agree that children should also be learning important social and emotional skills […]