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Developing Self-Directed Learners
Growth of the freelance- and gig-economy makes self-direction an imperative, and the learner experience is crucial when it comes to designing environments where students can learn to be self-directed.
There Are No Silver Bullets: 3 Levers For SEL Success
By: Jillian Darwish. Change in education is possible by utilizing the science of character strengths and SEL to remake school culture. Here are three critical success factors needed to create positive learning cultures for SEL success.
6 Starting Points for Place-Based Learning
By: Bernard Bull. Place-based education is an approach to teaching and learning even a single teacher in a traditional school can implement with a little creativity, preparation and persistence. Here are six helpful points to get started.
Developing a Sense of Place Means a Deeper Connection to Learning
By: Kristen Mueller-Sims. Developing a deep sense of place in young students leads to a citizenry that is more prepared and willing to contribute to communities for a lifetime.
12 SEL Organizations Making a Difference
Around the world, schools, districts and individual educators are embracing broader aims including social emotional learning (SEL) and growth mindsets.
Cultivating Cross-Cultural Competence in Costa Rica
By: Abel McClennen. Learn more about La Paz Community School: a rural, ecologically and ethnically diverse PreK-12 school in Costa Rica where all cultures, ethnicities and socioeconomic levels are openly embraced and celebrated.
On Becoming More Than Preparing: 10 Tips on Developing Humans
The importance of social emotional learning is widely recognized as key to success in life as it can help today's students become better learners, team members, contributors and friends.
For The School Supply List: 25 Ways to Promote Effort, Attitude and Respect
Parents and teachers can do a lot of things on a daily basis to encourage positive mindsets. Here are 25 ways to help send kids back to school with positive attitudes, effort and respect.
Expanding & Enriching Relationships in Place-Based Education
By: Gillian Judson. In place-based education, the importance of relationships in education is taken to a whole new level. Here are three guiding principles for maximizing the creation of all relationships and, by extension, the learning of all students.
Shaping Character Through Culture in Our African Schools
By: Oliver Sabot. Education in Africa has been several decades behind much of the world, and we launched our organization with a vision of helping the continent’s schools not only catch up but leap ahead of global standards.