Social Emotional Learning Standards: A New Definition
Last August, CASEL announced a “joint effort” to establish Social Emotional Learning Standards across 8 US states. For many long-time ...
Live to Give: The Amazing Story of Fombah Kanneh
Live to Give: This Is How We Change The World Recently, we got an email from a young man named ...
Social Emotional Learning Training for Creating Connection
“Social Emotional Learning Training” – eh? As the number of students per class continues to grow, teachers find it increasingly difficult to create ...
Four Essential Teaching Skills for the 21st Century Educator
When my son Daniel started the first grade, he was struggling with reading. My wife and I felt that we’d ...
Why Schools Must Teach Social Emotional Learning
Why Schools Must Teach Social Emotional Learning By Jeff Waller, 7 Mindsets Co-Creator and VP of Educational Services Years ago, ...
Powerful Sayings for Students
When I think back on my childhood, it’s funny what I remember. Yes, the big events and the times of ...
Why Mindsets Matter
Last week, I spent half an hour working with my 7-year-old daughter Sienna on her spelling homework. Laughing, my 12-year-old ...
The Huge Parenting Mistakes We’re All Making
You know what keeps me up at night? The idea that the comfortable life my kids have is doing nothing ...
What’s Wrong with Overachieving?
Given all my research and time working with youth, I (supposedly) know exactly what they need to be happy. The ...
What Makes a Good Parent?
Nothing in my life has been a greater challenge than parenting, though nothing has been more enriching, either. Parenting has ...
