SEL & Mindset
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is the deliberate commitment to including a framework of essential skills and dispositions that complement academics but historically have not been a part of curricular design. Learners acquire and effectively apply the skills necessary for self-regulation or managing and talking about emotions, forming relationships, setting goals and demonstrating empathy during their learning.
SEL & Mindset
ACT’s Next Act: Mosaic
Mosaic by ACT features an integrated suite of learning tools and marks continued organizational transformation.
Future of Learning
Beyond the 4Cs: Empowering Youth in the 21st-Century
By: Connie Liu. Connie discusses the 4C’s framework, the skills that are most important for student success, and are principal components of becoming a 21st-century learner.
Personalized Learning
Responding to Crisis With A Tiered Supports System
Turnaround’s recent release of a tiered support system action pack makes advanced learning science accessible to educators.
SEL & Mindset
From On Edge To On Track: Elements of Trauma Sensitive Schools
In order to better support students growing up in adverse circumstances, it is important to develop an understanding of the impact of trauma on brain function.
Personalized Learning
Why SEL is More Important Than Ever: Meeting SEL Needs Virtually
Rachelle Dene Poth shares ideas for promoting SEL in distance learning.
Getting Through
Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner
Success coaches are powerful resources for connection and healing and can help shepherd our student communities through this pandemic and its lasting traumas.
SEL & Mindset
Why Every K-12 District Should Invest in Social and Emotional Learning
By: Juan Cabrera and Ray Lozano. EPISD has instituted an emphasis on social and emotional learning (SEL) and believes it can be a defining factor in success for other districts as well.
Getting Through
Focusing on Learners and SEL: Looping Strategies to Welcome Learners Back
As social-emotional learning becomes more integrated into our systems of learning, we must consider a specific structure to tend to the whole child returning to some form of schooling in the fall, looping.
SEL & Mindset
Book Review: Otherful by Mike Kleba & Ryan O’Hara
Eric Nentrup shares a book review of Otherful, an exceptional book helping administrators demonstrate their confidence in their crew and creating a sound, trusting culture in your building.
Competency-Based Education
Shining the Competency Education Light on Education in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has created the conditions for a radical transformation in our schools. Chris discusses how personalized, mastery-based, competency, and proficiency-based approaches help teachers and schools.