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Learning Heroes

Learning Heroes provides parents with the tools and resources that can help them be learning heroes and support their children’s success in school.

Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame

Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame by Sesame Workshop. Available for iOS and Droid, and in both English and Spanish, this app offers Interactive cartoons which teach how to deal with frustration, separation anxiety, disappointment, impatience, and fear of the dark. It suggests using a “breathe, think, and do” strategy — breath slowly three times, think of a plan (three plans per problem are suggested), then do it.

Model Me Going Places 2

Model Me Going Places 2 by Model Me Kids LLC. Available for iOS only, this app offers social stories through photographs of children, showing how to behave in a variety of scenarios, including the playground, at the mall, and waiting in line.

Social and Emotional Learning School

The Social and Emotional Learning School helps teachers, school and district leaders, and state education agencies collaborate in connecting social and emotional learning to effective teaching. The GTL Center is committed to working at all levels of policy and practice to ensure that social and emotional learning is integrated into existing educator effectiveness reforms and professional development systems. The SEL Steps for Educators Guide helps outline the actions and resources that educators can utilize in order to implement SEL learning and curriculum into their classroom environments.

Ashoka’s Start Empathy Initiative

The Changemaker Schools Network is a global community of leading elementary, middle, and high schools that prioritize empathy, teamwork, leadership, problem-solving, and changemaking as student outcomes. Ashoka’s Start Empathy Initiative is a collaborative platform for social entrepreneurs, educators, and citizens whose ideas and talents can contribute to the creation of a world where every child masters empathy. Ashoka has a three-part strategy which includes accelerating empathy entrepreneurs, partnering with top schools, and changing the conversation to shift societal views of empathy.

BrainPOP SEL-Themed Collections

From making a movie chronicling daily emotions to creating a self-image map, BrainPOP’s SEL-themed collections provide related movies, learning games, and creative activities!

Emotional ABCs

Emotional ABCs is America’s #1 Awarded Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum. The program is a Common Sense Education “Top Pick” for 2019 and is currently in more than 50,000 elementary schools across the USA.

The Social and Emotional Learning Foundation (SELF)

SELF aims to improve quality of life and increase academic achievement for students by introducing social and emotional learning in classrooms.

BrainZones

Through the BrainZones model, both students and educators learn to interface with a language, that not only communicates how they are feeling, but also incorporates an understanding of how those emotions impact both thinking and actions.

Social-Emotional Learning Alliance for California

Social-Emotional Learning Alliance for California is an organization that is advocating for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in all schools in California.

Tips and Resources for Funding an SEL Program

This article, published by Edutopia, gives tips and resources to obtain funding for a social emotional learning (SEL) program.

Friendzy SEL Resources

Friendzy is a comprehensive program designed to change school culture by offering vital social and emotional learning lessons (SEL) to proactively address aggressive behavior, reduce stress, equip with healthy relationship skills, and improve focus and academic performance, which will increase resiliency for success in school and in life.