Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
This article is about how to help children when there are tragic events transpiring.
Sesame Street in Communities is an online community for sharing Sesame Street’s free educational resources with the adults in children’s lives.
In this article published by Edutopia, using a trauma-informed approach, learn how to boost students’ sense of optimism.
This article gives educators five ways to help students in trauma.
This report from Child Trends and the National Center for Children in Poverty includes a review of the prevalence of early childhood trauma and its effects. The report offers promising strategies for child care and preschool programs looking to help young children who have endured trauma, and presents recommendations for policymakers to support trauma-informed early care.
Avoid the “summer slide” and keep the spirit of curiosity alive with these informal, anytime learning resources. This collection of videos and activities encourages students in grades PreK-12 to spend the summer asking questions, spinning stories, and exploring all the ways that learning can be fun.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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!