SEL
Safety Loss: Using the Social Engagement System to Find ‘Felt Safety’
By: K. Munger & M. Marcus. Providing experiences of emotional safety and support for both educators and students is crucial to restore safety and catalyze learning in the wake of Covid-19.
Helping Teachers Prioritize Social Emotional Learning
By: JoJuan Armour. JoJuan shares three approaches to support teachers and allow them to prioritize their own social emotional wellness.
Perfection vs Improvement: The Problem With Expecting Student Perfection
By: Jane Mueller. The quest for perfection is linked to burnout, anxiety, and stress. Jane shares how the world’s greatest achievers pursue improvement over perfection and what you can do to foster a similar mindset within the classroom.
Emancipating Equity for Learning Justice
Kelly Niccolls and Rebecca Midles discuss how we must dismantle the machine that is schooling and emancipate equity for learning justice.
Resilience: The Skill That Keeps Teaching and Learning Thriving at Pasadena ISD
By: Melissa McCalla. Resilience must be a community effort - students need educators as part of their support system now more than ever.
Modern Classrooms Support SEL and an Assets Based Approach
By: Ben Owens. Ben shares how Evergreen Charter School is approaching the realities of remote and hybrid learning, viewing them not as deficits, but as opportunities.
A New Vision for a New Administration: Whole-Child Development, Learning and Thriving
We need whole-child design now more than ever. It is essential to keep neuroscience and development at the core of learning.
‘Imagine Project’ Turns Trauma into Strength, Empathy and Sense of Community
The Imagine Project is a seven-step journaling process that provides young people a simple way to express their stress and/or trauma, as well as be encouraged to imagine a new story for themselves.
New Arts Integration Efforts Address Healing-Centered Engagement, Transformative Agency
There is a new merging of the arts with trauma-informed pedagogy, social justice and culturally-responsive teaching as a means to increase healing-centered engagement and transformative agency.
Start Smart: Resuming Learning After COVID Learning Loss
By: Lynelle Morgenthaler. Lynelle shares recommendations and best practices for leaders that can serve as the backbone of an instruction plan for the 2020–21 school year.