Social Emotional

Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.

Adults can learn to help students reduce anxiety with the tool Worry Time.

Tools to help your young students regulate their emotions.

Starting with specific examples of fantastic classroom behavior, your class will end up with one sentence summing up their expectations. It’s a classroom motto!

Adults can limit anxiety by implementing the Five Question Rule.

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

The story of the Fabergé Eggs is heartbreaking. It’s also the perfect way to build empathy in your classroom.

Allison Edwards explains how blood flow in your brain affects your decision-making

Want your classroom discussions to go a bit more smoothly? Train students to use a few simple phrases and it’ll make all the difference in the world.

When a student’s brain is full of worries, everything feels urgent. Brain Plate helps them sort what’s real from what’s noise — and actually do something about it.

So… do your students moan when forced to work in a group? Part of the problem is that lack the structure to work well with peers. Edward de Bono’s Thinking Hats are a perfect tool to help with this problem.

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

How the lotus can teach your young students about resiliency.

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

How high-performing students can often feel like they aren’t really that great.

For students! In some areas, a student may be shockingly advanced, while in others… surprisingly average. This is asynchrony in action.

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?