Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)
This scavenger hunt can be used by anyone to search for things that they are grateful for.
Harmony Academy offers a social and emotional learning program for Pre-K-6 grade students, accessible online and at no cost. Harmony fosters knowledge, skills, and attitudes boys and girls need to develop healthy identities, create meaningful relationships, and engage productively by providing SEL learning resources, tools, and strategies.
This article is about how to help children when there are tragic events transpiring.
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.
In this article published by Edutopia, using a trauma-informed approach, learn how to boost students’ sense of optimism.
In this lesson, Identity and Intersecting Perspectives: Between the World and Me | MacArthur Fellows Program, students explore how our complex identities shape our understanding and experience of our world.
Together, school districts and educators can help students develop social-emotional learning competencies by intentionally teaching these skills, by implementing educational neuroscience learning strategies, by practicing culturally responsive classroom-management, and by approaching this work with a growth mindset. The goals of this toolkit are (1) To increase educators’ awareness, knowledge, and skills regarding social-emotional learning (2) To promote collaboration between educators, community, and families to address the social-emotional learning competency development of all students (3) To enhance knowledge of educational practices that promote social-emotional learning competency development (4) To provide tools and resources to educators to help improve students’ social-emotional skills.
Based out of the National University System, Inspire celebrates and develops inspirational educators through free on-demand courses and resources. Through teacher training, Inspire supports social and emotional learning and inspirational instruction in the PK-12 classroom and at our partner universities.
This site is a place for educators, community leaders, young people, parents, and government officials to connect so that we can help with the overall well-being of teens and positively change school climates.
Kid Power is an interactive video platform for students in grades Kindergarten through 8th. Kid Power combines philanthropy and fun with mental health, social-emotional learning (SEL), child rights, and equity and access for all students.
Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness in a classroom setting. The series focuses on implementing the Kindness Curriculum; a free 24-lesson mindfulness guide designed for pre-k and kindergarten classrooms, researched and developed by the Center for Healthy Minds at UW-Madison.