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The HEART in Mind Model
There is one thing that educators always need more of... can you guess what it is? Time! When I did my doctoral dissertation on SEL, ...
Are SEL and Equity friends?
You may have heard that Social Emotional Learning (SEL) needs to be centered in equity to support all students. And you may be wondering, ...
Stressed Brains Don’t Learn
The pandemic has challenged educators and students in ways that we didn’t know were possible before COVID-19. We have witnessed the vast inequities that ...
New Year, New Book
The need to focus on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) couldn't be any greater, and I am SO excited to announce that I have a ...
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 ...
Teaching SEL by Modeling
We are starting week 6 of distance learning in California with parents and teachers still struggling to keep up with the new normal that COVID-19 ...
Staying Connected and Sane during the Shelter-in-Place
The spread of the coronavirus is asking a lot from families, from homeschooling and work from home schedules to quarantine mandates and social distancing. It ...
SEL Ideas for Home Learning
This morning came the news that we are expected to do “shelter-in-place” to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the county where ...