Social-Emotional Learning
Amber Chandler Named 2018 National Educator of the Year
Amber Chandler, an English language arts teacher at Frontier Middle School & Getting Smart teacher blogger, was named the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) 2018 Educator of the Year.
Getting Classroom Culture Right with Practical SEL
By: Tamara Fyke. Teaching SEL in the 21st-century classroom means examining both content and practice in order to find ways to integrate SEL into the daily experience. Here, we look at some ways to get started or hone your practice.
ACT, Leader in Measurement, Shifts to Focus to Student Success
The nonprofit developer of the ACT test has been expanding beyond traditional measurement to new and broader ways to promote education and workplace success.
3 Ways to Help Educators Develop Social Emotional Skills
By: Jessica Lovins. Helping adults develop their social-emotional skills allows them to support, engage, and teach these critical life skills to students. In this post, we look at some good ways to train staff in this important area.
A Beginning Rather Than an End: Reframing Summer as the Start of Next School Year
By reframing the potential of summer, from “ten weeks of academic wilderness between school years” to “the start of the next learning opportunity,” summer has the possibility to serve as a smooth, engaging, and uninterrupted continuation from one school year to the next.
Social Emotional Learning and the Future of Education
By: Giancarlo Brotto. Core development skills such as conscientiousness, extraversion, emotional stability, openness, and agreeableness can be equally or even more important than cognitive skills in determining future employment. Despite these skills being related to consequential life outcomes, many teachers struggle to find effective ways to prioritize, teach and assess social and emotional skills and thus, we see related challenges.
Attacking Complexity with Confidence
By: Jonathan Rochelle, Katherine Prince and Tom Vander Ark. One thing we know for sure—tomorrow will be more complex than today. We’ve entered a new era that’s driven by artificial intelligence and education must adapt. Our students deserve a new set of learning priorities (not just more added to a crowded set of learning objectives).
Social and Emotional Learning Skills are Essential to Formative Assessment Practice
By: Mary Ryerse and Tom Vander Ark. Just as formative assessment informs the teaching and learning of math, reading and science skills, it can also provide essential guidance for the teaching of discrete SEL skills. Learn more about the relationship, and how to make the most of it, here.
Mindset, and the Power of “Yet”
For me, the “Power of Yet” poster has been a powerful strategy. Such a simple reminder to persevere can be the difference between a student who gives up and one who routinely concludes that understanding will come with more effort, questions, or use of additional strategies.
How One Teacher is Teaching Her Students to be Kind
Kindness is a relatively easy word to define, according to Google it means “the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate” easy enough, right? Then why is “kindness” often so hard to put into practice? How do we go about teaching and learning, kindness?