Working to improve public schools with resources, tools, and solutions for teachers, administrators, and parents. Find and share resources for creating a healthy school culture by helping students develop skills to manage their emotions, resolve conflicts, and make responsible decisions.
- Teaching Self-Regulation in the Early Grades Nov 2018
Activating young students’ natural bodily rhythms helps them regulate their nervous systems and prepare for learning. Here are four strategies for helping students regulate their responses. - Building a Positive Staff Culture Takes Work May 2018
If schools want a strong collegial atmosphere, they need to foster it intentionally—both across the school and on smaller scales. - Keeping the Focus on the Positive Jan 2018
- Additional Resources from Edutopia
- How a District Integrates SEL with Academics
- Creating Safety and Attachment for Students with Trauma Nov 2017
- Edutopia: Building Social and Emotional Skills in Elementary Students: Passion and Strengths
From Project Happiness this nine-part series looks at important factors that influence the happiness and social and emotional learning of elementary school age children. These are very useful in helping students learn, manage emotions better and increase empathy. Included are activities and curriculum to build social and emotional skills in elementary students. - The Research Behind Social and Emotional Learning
- Empathy: The Most Important Back to School Supply
- Seven Questions to Ask Parents at the Beginning of the Year
- Relationship Building Through Culturally Responsive Classroom Management
- Social Emotional Learning: A Schoolwide Approach
Strategies like mindfulness, emotional regulation, and supportive small groups help Symonds meet the academic and social needs of their students. - Empathy In the Classroom: Why Should I Care?
- The Long Game: 4 Essentials for a Successful Mindfulness Program
- Social Emotional Learning: A Schoolwide Approach
Strategies like mindfulness, emotional regulation, and supportive small groups help Symonds meet the academic and social needs of their students. - Response to Intervention: Safe Places for Math and Literacy (video of a charter school’s success)
- Helping Students Who Experienced Trauma
- How to Implement Social and Emotional Learning at Your School
- “It’s Not What’s Wrong with the Children, It’s What’s Happened to Them”
- Resources for Creating a Radically Compassionate Classroom
Manifesting the magic of compassion within the four walls of your classroom may not always be an easy task, but it’s a darn worthy one. That being said, we only can give what we have. Reflect on yourself for a second: Where are you with compassion for yourself? When was the last time you checked that barometer?