Bullying affects everyone - those who are bullied, those who bully, and those who witness the act. Studies show that raising kind kids is a top priority for parents, and researchers tell us that kindness kindness stretches beyond being nice to include empathy. What would happen if we taught our children...
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With fall approaching, parents and educators are looking to the next school year and wondering what’s best for everyone involved. We took to our community to ask teachers around the world about their thoughts, feelings, and hopes for the 2020/2021 school year. And this is what they had to say....
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Starting school or starting a new school year can be stressful at the best of times, let alone during a global pandemic. The CDC has released recommendations for schools to help with this process, and once again our children are being asked to adjust. Some parents fear that school will look more...
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We asked teachers across the nation what their biggest concerns were regarding returning back to school, and this is what they told us.
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Warning: the content of this video is potentially upsetting. We share it with the intent to empower determination as we advocate for change, protecting the most vulnerable in our society from injustice. The funneling of students out of school and into the streets and the juvenile correction system perpetuates...
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Sierra has struggled to cultivate language for how her disability impacts her own social-emotional development and how it impacts her experiences at school. This struggle has been a barrier to Sierra’s ability to create positive relationships with her classmates.
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Emily Canibano, a Montessori teacher with a classroom of 16 students ranging in age from 1.2 to 5.5 years, was looking for a way to teach social-emotional skills in her classroom, both in feeling emotions and in the safe expression of them.
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As the school counselor, the teacher had requested I come in and observe her new morning meeting format. I found a chair in the back of the room and curiously looked at the student that the others were staring at.
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Bloom360 Learning Community, a nonprofit school in southeastern Wisconsin for Learners ages 5 to 21 with neurodiverse needs, based their entire 2019/20 school year curriculum themes around the PeaceMakers themes of Power, Joy, Balance, Love, Peace, Intuition, and Forgiveness, and the outcomes are inspiring.
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The Trauma-Informed Schools Act of 2019 helps to define trauma-informed practices within schools with goals to decrease school-to-prison pipeline and create a safe learning environment.
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When I was a young girl I thought the thing to be was happy. I'm not clear when or how this misbelief was first planted, but I managed to carry it well into my adult years none the less. The narrative in my head went something like this: "If I...
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A new study describes emotional intelligence as an important part of academic success from kindergarten into college.
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