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Social Emotional Learning

School Was Exhausting This Year. Here's How We Made It Through.

“How’s school?” friends and family asked me, all year long. I gave my typical response, “Always interesting!” But the truth? School, this year, was beautiful, heartbreaking, fulfilling, exhausting,...

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Social Emotional Learning

After Uvalde, Teachers Need to Help Kids Process Big Feelings in Small, Daily Conversations

The end of a school year is always a bittersweet one for teachers as our students set their sights on their next destination and we cherish the poignant lessons along the way. During a recent...

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Social Emotional Learning

Parents Aren’t Falling for the Partisan Outrage About SEL in Schools

Do you want kids to develop the self-discipline to succeed academically? Want them to build communication and kindness skills to work together with their peers? Then you want social-emotional...

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Social Emotional Learning

3 Strategies To Help Kids Heal When Racist Tragedies Strike

Students across our nation started another week of school after yet another tragic mass shooting motivated by racism and hate. Teachers will face students who have likely heard about how an...

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Social Emotional Learning

Emotional Wellness Tools Saved My Life. All Young People Deserve Access to Them.

When I was a kid, my mother would tell me, “One monkey don’t stop no show!” I was in kindergarten—snaggle-toothed, bright-eyed, and brown-skinned, with a head full of knocker-balls that clacked like...

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CRT

With Florida Math Textbook Rejections, CRT Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

While Twitter’s chock full of talk about Florida banning books that include “critical race theory (CRT),” there’s even more weirdness going on. Some background: Florida’s Department of Education...

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