Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
Flocabulary teaches a variety of topics through the use of hip-hop songs and videos. On this page you can find videos that help teach social and emotional skills.
This site offers a variety of activities to help build the social and emotional skills of your students.
Backed by extensive positive psychological research, MindUP aims to cultivate mindful, emotional, social techniques to improve behavior and learning by teaching children skills to manage emotions and behaviors, reduce stress, sharpen concentration, and increase empathy and optimism.
Operation Respect transforms schools, camps, and other youth organizations into safer, more respectful, bully-free environments.
Do2learn provides thousands of free pages with social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills.
The mission of NCLD is to improve the lives of the 1 in 5 children and adults nationwide with learning and attention issues—by empowering parents and young adults, transforming schools and advocating for equal rights and opportunities. They’re working to create a society in which every individual possesses the academic, social and emotional skills needed to succeed in school, at work,f and in life.
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.
Strategies for helping children make sense of a violent world include historical perspective, risk assessment of their daily lives, writing to leaders, and reaching out to victims.
This article gives educators five ways to help students in trauma.
Second Step is a program rooted in social-emotional learning (SEL) that helps transform schools into supportive, successful learning environments uniquely equipped to help children thrive.
kindness.org is a nonprofit with a bold hypothesis: Kindness is the catalyst in solving the world’s biggest challenges. They believe a kinder world is possible, and they’re here to make it happen.
From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan—texts, student tasks and teaching strategies—their resources will help bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into the classroom—all for FREE.