Common Core
Reflecting to Learn
There are books that I keep going back to reading, because they inspire me, engage me in deeper thinking or provide practical ways to ...
Making SEL Visible
When educators present students with a new unit or project, they often explain to students what they will be learning. As we were taught in ...
Ready for School?
A few weeks back, I registered my daughter for kindergarten in the local school district. It was a moment filled with different emotions: excitement for ...
2y + 3x = SEL
It has been almost 6 years since the Common Core State Standards were released. The adoption of common standards in the US has brought exciting ...
Back to School: This year we are also teaching SEL!
One of the greatest concerns for principals and teachers who want to bring Social Emotional Learning to their schools is the potential push back they ...
3 Steps to Increase Students’ Self-Awareness: Identifying Strengths and Challenges
Last week, I was rereading my research data and came across this amazing quote from one of the teachers. We were discussing the connections between ...
Teaching SEL Through Academic Content: ELA, History and Music
In an earlier post, I described the 3 strategies to address SEL in the classroom that CASEL (2013) recommends. The third strategy encourages integrating SEL ...
5 Ways to Deal with Setbacks
Life has some interesting twists, and sometimes things don’t go the way we expect. After a failure, we might feel lost, embarrassed, scared, upset, or ...
Perseverance in Solving Problems
The Mathematics Common Core Standards outline certain mathematical practices that students should develop in class. The first practice is “Make sense of problems and persevere ...