- Why Champion Social-Emotional Learning?
- Philadelphia Schools: the race to 'fix' schools has ignored emotional learning
- The Manipulation of Social Emotional Learning
- How Administrators, and Teachers View Social - Emotional Learning
- How to Teach Social-Emotional Learning When Students Aren't in School
- Character education is not enough to help poor kids Coincidentally, new research has just been published that backs up this position.
- Smarts vs. Personality in School
- Lifelines for Poor Children NYTimes: Early education to develop character, parenting and healthy living
- To foster challenging learning experiences, where struggle and progress go hand in hand, remember three keys
What’s edtech got to do with growth mindset?
- Review: Practical SEL strategies for every classroomAmber Chandler's "The Flexible SEL Classroom: Practical Ways to Build Social Emotional Learning in Grades 4-8" marries SEL with academics in a way that feels fresh, best-practice based, and perhaps most importantly, very practical, writes educator Rita Platt. Each non-touchy feely chapter offers ready-to-use classroom strategies
Testing for Joy and Grit? Schools Nationwide Push to Measure Students’ Emotional Skills
forum, Testing Students’ True Grit.
Playing Nicely With Others: Why Schools Teach Social Emotional Learning.
- Schools overhaul parent-teacher conferences
- Study: Higher standards might not raise scoresThere is no correlation between states that raise academic standards and actual improvements in student achievement, researchers report in the journal Education Next. Researchers say the issue could be related to other factors, including a lack of educational resources or the end of No Child Left Behind.
Experts Agree Social-Emotional Learning Matters, and Are Plotting Roadmap on How to Do It
- Teaching Social Skill to Kids who Don't Yet Have Them
- Teaching Peace in Elementary School NYTimes SEL impact 201
- The Arts and Effects on Emotions: hormone stress levels lowered
- How to Integrate Growth Mindset Messages Into Every Part of Math Class
- Playworks a program in Philadelphia and nationwide that promotes teaching elementary age children SEL skills while playing at recess.
- Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today
- Raising a Moral Child NYT article on how to effectively instill empathy and compassion in children.
- How Some Rise from Difficult Starts
- From Practice to Policy (National Association of State Boards of Education) brief offers deeper understanding of SEL and its implications student achievement and for policymaking
- Can Emotional Intelligence be Taught? NYTimes
- Let Them Eat Character
- The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn’t Enough
- Is Social - Emotional Learning a Luxury?
- The Best Jobs Require Social Skills
- Creating Safer Schools - Philadelphia high school observer embraces SEL
- Social Emotional Learning Can Help, But More Research Shows It’s Not Enough.
- Emotional Intelligence, the missing piece
- Learning to expect best of city students.pdf
- The Impact of After-School Programs that Promote Personal and Social Skills
- CARE for Kids Starts with the Heart and Replicating CARE program
Emotional-Intelligence Research: Indicators Point to the Importance of SEL Research finds that students who receive lessons in appropriate social and emotional behavior do better in school and life. click
- Ten Tips for Creating a Caring School: Raise Your Students' Emotional Intelligence Quotient click
- Guide Highlights Effective Social-Emotional Programs
- Ten Takeaway Tips for Social Emotional and Learning
Implement these strategies at your school to promote social and emotional intelligence. click
- The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program strives to instill empathy and positive values in children.See video click for article
- Do We Invest in Preschools or Prisons? New York Times articles not only makes a case for preschools but supporting at-risk mothers.
"We're Here to Raise Kids": Character Development Is Key
- How To Teach Children Empathy: An Important Lesson From Japan with video pdf-version video ( see other episodes on the right)
- The Empathy deficit
Fostering Emotional Literacy Begins With the Brain
Teaching elementary students the neuroscience of emotions helps them understand their feelings and empowers them to respond with intentionality.
At Benjamin Franklin Middle School, high test scores are all well and good, but the school's educators also strive to foster social and emotional intelligence. click
- To Be Fair is to be Human Natalie Angier traces the human desire for fairness back to our evolutionary roots.
- Reaching the Fragile Student.pdf : New take on mastery learning; Ball Park talks, and grading the struggling student.
- Grading Parents
- Lashing-out Parents stunt brains
- Engaging Class Discussions
- Eyes on the future Early eduction builds social skills
- Differences Between Collaboration and Cooperation
- Cooperative Learning and Diversity
- Social Conditions Hobble Schools
- Cooperative Learning and Read Alouds See Section 4
- Cooperative Reading Alouds.doc
- Folktales on cooperation
- Use Literary Characters to Teach Emotional Intelligence
When it comes to learning real-life lessons, fictional characters offer a strategy all their own. Morning meeting strategy click
- Notable Nine Year Olds
- Increase Your Intelligence Note the impact of networking
- a K-8 reading-comprehension curriculum that uses read-aloud books to develop social values
- Cooperative Learning and Bullying
- CooperativeLearning.pdf
- Diversity.pdf
- Conversation Management Conversation Management Resources
- Explore the resource below to learn more about how to set and maintain clear discussion expectations and structure conversations for maximum participation:
- Closing Circle
- Genuine Apologies
- Cultures establish rules and norms. Check out "School 'Rules!': Ten Activities for Establishing Classroom Rules" from Education World.
Practical and rich with teacher voices, this article explains behavior
contracts, class pledges, and even 110 "Rules of Civility" favored by
adolescent George Washington:
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson274.shtml - Teaching Children to Disagree: interactive modeling
- Reading, Writing and Grit
- behavior-positive attention.pdf
- tchrcommand.pdf Effective Teacher Commands: Establishing Classroom Control
- classclimate.pdf Establishing a Positive Classroom Climate: Teacher Tips for Managing Group Behavior
- jackpot.pdf Jackpot!: Ideas for Classroom Rewards
- Idealist's Practical Steps to Achieve Goals.pdf (Middle School)
- Basics: relationships, trust, and fun.pdf (Middle School. Another approach to forming rules like the above article)
- Modeling and Practicing Routines to Improve Behavior.pdf Good example of using Y chart, i.e., what a classroom looks like, sounds like and feels like
- Living Routines: Social Contracts.pdf
- Strategies for Getting Started with After-School SEL
- Routines.pdf for Middle Schoolers
- Team Mtgs .pdf cliques
- Morning Meeting Empathy A TeacherShares.pdf
- Take it Slow with Morning Meeting
- 9 Strategies for Getting More Students to Talk
- Morning Meetings for Older Kids
- Middle School Morning Meetings.pdf Buy book
- Power of Morning Meetings.pdf
- Benefits of Morning Meetings.pdf
- Taking Care of One Another.pdf building interdependence at morning meetings and beyond
- A Novel Approach to Feelings: Using Literary Characters to Teach Emotional Intelligence
When it comes to learning real-life lessons, fictional characters offer a strategy all their own. Morning meeting strategy click
- a K-8 reading-comprehension curriculum that uses read-aloud books to develop social values
- To Help Kids Thrive, Coach Their Parents - New York Times
- Philadelphia Grant
- Grading Parents
- Charter Schools in Philadelphia: Educating without a blueprint read or listen to how community outreach makes a difference at some schools.
- Want Students to Ask for Help? Talk to Parents
Service Learning
- MakeIt.pdf: Three short articles on projects that involve social responsibility
- Service Learning and Civic Participation.pdf - Geared towards middle, high and undergraduate schoolers . Goes beyond "helping out" at a social service agency to civic engagement.
- Engaging Hearts & Minds-service learning.pdf CD and SEL articles folder
- Why Class Meetings.pdf
- A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school
- Class meeting article.pdf
- Cliques.pdf
- empathy in middle school.pdf
- How To Teach Children Empathy: An Important Lesson From Japan with video[[file/view/How To Teach Children Empathy_ An Important Lesson From Japan | Strollerderby.pdf|pdf-version]] video ( see other episodes on the right)
- Disruptive student.pdf
- Nonverbal Cues.pdf
- Revisiting Peace in the classroom middlle school.pdf
- Engaging_Students_Through_Participation.pdf
- Facing History and Ourselves: Students reflect on connections between periods of history and the times they are living in today. Class activities raise questions about morality, human behavior and ethics Article
- We’re Teaching Grit the Wrong Way is from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Growth mindset doesn’t promise pupils the world
- Carol Dweck, the founder of the movement, needed to clarify some common misconceptions.
- Why poor people make poor decisions is an insightful good article giving a review of that research, and it’s unfortunate that it has a terrible headline. No, not all poor people make poor decisions and, in fact, often make very rational decisions that are only perceived by some not in poverty as “poor” ones. But it is clear that economic pressures do have a negative impact on “cognitive bandwidth” that could ordinarily be devoted to to more reflection and planning.
- Education World: Ten Activities to Improve Students' Self-Concepts Use these activities to help students feel comfortable with who they are. ... activities through which a teacher can help her students build a positive self-
concept. - Asking for help is difficult for some students
Talking About Failure Is Crucial for Growth. Here’s How to Do It Right.
is from The NY Times.
There are three types of failure, but only one you should actually feel bad about is from Quartz.
How to motivate older kids without using rewards, punishment or fear. (No, really.) is from The Washington Post.
- Tips to Foster a Community of Growth Mindset Learners
- Students' Help-Seeking Strategies Offer Clues for Educators
- Want Students to Ask for Help? Talk to Parents
- Reading, Writing and Grit
- Perseverance Getting Past "I Can't"
- How a School Ditched Awards and Assemblies to Refocus on Kids and Learning
- Now Some Schools Are Testing Kids for Their ‘Grit’ and ‘Joy’ Levels. Really.
- Don't Grade Schools on Grit - Duckworth
- Checking In: Helping Students "Catch Themselves"
- Teaching Self-Calming Skills
- “Walk & Talks” Are Extremely Effective Way To Connect With Students – Here’s A “How-To” Guide
- Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning
- Using Digital Games for SEL Assessment and Skill Building
- What Drives Success? Culture pushes some groups to achieve. We can learn from them
- Meeting the Needs of introverted StudentsHow Well Do You Know Your Students?
- Assessing Student Affect.pdf
- Decision Making The new life science
- Empathy in middle School.pdf
- How To Teach Children Empathy: An Important Lesson From Japan with video see other episodes on the right)
True Grit: The Best Measure of Success and How to Teach It
The ability to accurately recognize one’s own emotions, thoughts and values and how they influence behavior. The ability to accurately assess one’s strengths and limitations, with a well-grounded sense of confidence, optimism and a “growth mind-set.”- Talking About Failure Is Crucial for Growth. Here’s How to Do It Right.(Related Learning Network Writing Prompt)
Research shows that talking about failure makes for happier, more productive workers. - The Importance of Naming Your Emotions
Although our emotional state influences the quality of our work, many of us aren’t aware of how we’re feeling or what the impact may be. - The Big Myth About Teenage Anxiety (Related Learning Network Writing Prompt)
Relax: The digital age is not wrecking your kid’s brain. - Putting the Power of Self-Knowledge to Work
A person’s understanding of their own early trauma can lead to transformative change.
Research shows that talking about failure makes for happier, more productive workers.
Although our emotional state influences the quality of our work, many of us aren’t aware of how we’re feeling or what the impact may be.
Parents, therapists and schools are struggling to figure out whether helping anxious teenagers means protecting them or pushing them to face their fears.
“I always tell myself that it’s O.K. to be nervous, but it’s not O.K. to let that nervousness impact my game.”
The syndrome is described as a feeling of “phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent, capable or creative despite evidence of high achievement.”
High school students reported more confidence after completing an exercise intended to instill a basic message to help manage tension: People can change.
In the long run, being unable to express what you want is a recipe for perpetual dissatisfaction, because your needs always end up on the back burner. The good news is people can learn to ask for the things they want at home, at work and even at a local restaurant when you get a burnt steak and want a new one.
On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus
A Smith College initiative called “Failing Well” is one of a crop of university programs that aim to help high achievers cope with basic setbacks.
A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry
Mastery-based learning allows students to learn at their own pace.
What Straight-A Students Get Wrong (Related Learning Network Writing Prompt)
If you always succeed in school, you’re not setting yourself up for success in life.
- Making_small_groups_work.doc - The article takes you through the process of developing group interdependence and to address problems.
- Social Responsibility.pdf - "Avoiding the Land Mines" Students recognize that their actions influence others and their responsibilities are more important than their personal satisfaction.
- Community Building in the Classroom
– stages of group development (in handout set.
- A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school
Group Processing
Group Assessment
- Take Time for Group Processing.pdf
- Building Small Groups.pdf in Middle School
- Civil Discourse Curriculum from the Southern Poverty Law Center TT_Civil Discourse_whtppr_0.pdf
- Building Blocks of Civil Discourse BuildingBlocksCivilDis.doc
- 9 Strategies for Getting More Students to Talk
- 5 Important Questions Teachers Should Ask
- Say What? 5 Ways to Get Students to Listen
- Using Digital Games for SEL Assessment and Skill Building
- Coaching Children in Handling Everyday Conflicts.pdf: also comments on using lit characters
- Playworks a program in Philadelphia and nationwide that promotes teaching elementary age children SEL skills while playing at recess.
- Using Digital Games for SEL Assessment and Skill Building
- Conflict Resolution Framework.pdf
- Waging Peace.pdf - Importance of starting early to curb aggressive behavior; ownership of rules with catchy names:role play
- conflictguide_NCJRS.pdf
- Making Peer Mediation a Part of Campus – Education World
- Giving and receiving apologies requires complex social skills. Learn how you can help children develop these skills in Amy Wade's "Genuine Apologies: Helping Students Get There." And for more on the importance of going beyond telling a child to "say you're sorry," check out Margaret Berry Wilson's blog post "Teaching Apologies.
- Responding to Misbehavior.pdf
- Teaching Children how to Disagree