Social Emotional

How the lotus can teach your young students about resiliency.

Tools to help your young students regulate their emotions.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Take away some anxiety with the tool Brain Plate.

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.

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

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

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!

Terri Eicholz explains how she builds empathy in her students using the story of the Faberge Eggs.

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