Positive self-talk is a powerful tool with big results. Essentially, it is the technique that can help us direct our thoughts in positive, encouraging, and solution-focused ways. This can be especially beneficial for children and teens learning to cope with big emotions and navigate through life’s challenges. And teaching, modeling, and practicing positive self-talk on […]
15+ SEL Activities to Strengthen Classroom Community
15+ SEL Activities to Strengthen Classroom Community
The 7 Most Important De-escalation Strategies for Challenging Behaviors
De-escalation is the process of calming down a situation before it escalates further. It is helping to slowly bring the temperature down before it reaches a boiling point. This is critically important skill for all educators and parents because children and young adults feel overwhelmed and angry sometimes; we all do. With that said, learning […]
What to Do When A Student Won’t Go to Class
What do you do when a student won’t go to class? As a special educator in middle school, this was a problem I commonly encountered. The student might stay in resource room, hang down at the nurse’s office, or even worse, wander the hallways. Basically, they will do anything to avoid being in their scheduled […]
15+ Proactive Anger Management Strategies for Children and Teens
Strong feelings of anger and frustration can cause kids and teens to shut down or even act out in aggressive ways. It goes without saying that this can become a challenge in the classroom, at home, or anywhere in a child’s life. Kids and young adults might experience anger and frustration for a variety of […]
12 Simple Ways to Practice Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a self-regulation strategy. With practice, it can help us feel calm, confident, and focused. And while it’s very helpful for us, as adults, mindfulness is a powerful skill we can teach to children and young adults. The goal of this article is to promote simple mindful strategies you can try with your students […]
12+ Social Emotional Skills that Board Games Build
Games are one of the most engaging and meaningful ways to practice social-emotional skills with children and young adults. While there are many fancy online games and activities, sometimes you can’t beat an old board game. Board games are simple, predictable, and easy to pull out whenever you have some extra time during class. In […]
15+ Classroom Practices to Build Self-Regulation Skills
Self-regulation skills are one of the biggest keys for success for students in the classroom. These are some of the skills that help students focus during lessons, wait their turn to share in group activities, transition to a new task when time is up, and start tasks right away. Self-regulation skills are extraordinarily important in […]
20+ Morning Meeting Activities with a SEL Focus
Morning meeting is the perfect beginning of the day for students and teachers alike. That’s because morning meeting is a consistent start to every day, develops meaningful relationships, builds a positive classroom community, and provides a venue to work on social-emotional skills. And even better, morning meeting with a SEL focus is something every teacher […]
Using Whiteboard Messages to Build Social-Emotional Skills
Build social-emotional learning skills in the classroom in just 10 minutes a day using whiteboard messages. Whiteboard messages are prompts projected or written on the whiteboard where students can get up and write their own responses each day. By focusing these messages specifically on social emotional learning topics, whiteboard messages become one of the simplest […]
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