Fighting the Epidemic of Teen Suicide
Teen suicide has reached epidemic proportions. Every day in the U.S. over 3,000 kids between grades nine and twelve attempt ...
Is your District Ready to Assess Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?
If you’ve been following my posts over the past year, you probably know that I believe in the power of ...
Refusal Skills: Teaching Teens What to Say When No Isn’t Enough
Have you ever had someone ask if you could make something for a bake sale or volunteer to coordinate a ...
Why Invest Time in Social Emotional (SEL) Assessment?
In my conversations with educators, the issue of assessment time has come up a lot lately. Here’s the issue: On ...
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment in Action
As you know, I spend a lot of my time thinking and talking about how to assess students social and ...
The (Virtual) Reality of Bullying Today
They don’t make them like they used to, and we’re not talking about your appliances. What we are talking about ...
What Parents Should Know about Juul
9 Things Parents Need to Know about Juul Juul is going viral on college, high school, and even middle school ...
What You Need to Know about Direct Assessment
What the $#&^!@* is Direct Assessment of Student Social and Emotional Learning Skill? I think you’ll agree with me that ...
Sharing Moments that Matter – The Attitude of Gratitude Challenge
ENERGY FLOWS WHERE ATTENTION GOES!! Its the things that we focus on that expand in our life. If we focus on the negative, it is negative things that will become the foundation of growth in our lives. However, if we use the positive as the underpinning of our thinking, our joy and happiness will grow. Why does the negative tend to stay at the forefront in our minds? Negativity just has a bigger impact on our brains. And that is due to the brain's "negativity bias": Our brain is simply built with a greater sensitivity to unpleasant news. The bias is so automatic that it can be detected at the earliest stage of the brain's information processing.
Defining Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Skills
Defining Social Emotional Learning Skills There are many frameworks, models, and definitions of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). As a ...
