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Social and Emotional Learning

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December 11, 2020 Do What You Can: Helping Students Navigate the Bad Days

Have you ever read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? You probably have (after all, the book…

December 7, 2020 Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities

A few years ago, while observing an afterschool science cohort, I was introduced to a young boy I'll call Jake. From the beginning Jake wasn’t…

November 30, 2020 Learning Together: Helping Students Build Virtual Community

This past weekend, after nearly two weeks of intense quarantining, I was finally able to spend time with my family. Given the long period of…

November 25, 2020 Find Your Five: Cultivating Gratitude During Difficult Times

I simply love Thanksgiving. The planning, the prepping, the cooking, the hosting, and most importantly -- the time spent with those that I…

November 23, 2020 Say What?: Teaching Media Literacy to Students

When I was a sophomore in high school, one of my teachers shared a rather disturbing article with our class. It was a report on…

November 20, 2020 Giving Thanks: Celebrating Thanksgiving with Your Students

2020 has been…a lot. First COVID, then the election, plus fires and murder hornets galore. Honestly, it’s exhausting just thinking about everything the year has…

November 4, 2020 The Great Divide: Modeling Virtue in the Classroom

I am writing this at 5:41 a.m. It is Tuesday, November 3rd, which means that between you and me, Reader, there has been…

October 30, 2020 Engaging Students Across the Generational Divide

The world was a much different place when I was a kid. There were no smartphones or social media. Computers, for the most part, were…