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 ...
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Restorative Practices
Recently, the xSEL Labs team met with a group of educators in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse school district that ...
Five Steps for Maximizing Benefit and Minimizing Risk from Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Screening Assessment
People often have very strong opinions about student assessment, particularly when it comes to social and emotional learning assessment. This ...
The One Key to Effective SEL Implementation
Social and Emotional Learning is only as good as, will only ever be as good as, the teacher who stands and delivers it. If teachers are engaged, if they have bought into the program, students’ lives will forever be transformed. If teachers are not engaged, then you have most likely implemented “one more thing,” one more tool that will sit on a shelf collecting dust. If you win the teachers, you win the students, their parents, and ultimately the community. We are very proud of our solution. We believe it is the most comprehensive and engaging curriculum on the market. I have witnessed its tremendous impact on thousands of students and educators around the country. I have also seen it fall short. Lessons that are dynamic and powerful in one classroom come off as mechanical and cheesy in others.
How To Start The School Year On A Happy Note
The following article originally appeared in eSchool News By Tracey Smith | Sept 9, 2018 The author of “10 ways ...
Planning and Acting on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Assessment Data
Forgive me for being master of the obvious here, but SEL assessment data alone won’t change the world. But they ...
