Young adolescent girls gain the skills and tools they need to reach their potential.
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Tag: Social Emotional Learning
Others are discovering what middle grades educators knew all along.
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How parents and educators can help students cope with social distancing While on a socially distanced walk with my husband today, we heard a cacophony of caw-caws. My husband turned to me to ask, “What do you call a group of crows? A gaggle? A flock?” Without hesitation, I responded, “It’s a murder of crows.”
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Activities that bring perspective, invite empathy, and build social skills “I can’t believe what happened,” Janine* said. Her daughter Greta’s best friend overheard two girls calling her a stuck-up loser, so she secretly videotaped their conversation and texted Greta the evidence. Janine was bewildered. “How could her friend think this was a good idea?” she
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A rigorous social and emotional learning program helps students tackle community challenges As national conversations about immigration, cybersecurity, under-employment, artificial intelligence, and the rapid transformation of our workplace are debated, a daunting question looms: how are we going to prepare the next generation to tackle these critical challenges and incredible opportunities? Ensuring students excel academically
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Practicing gratitude is one tool that can help students deal with anxiety, depression, and loneliness iGen, a term used by generational researcher Jean M. Twenge (2017), is used to describe children born between 1995 and 2012. In her book, Twenge analyzed large data sets to understand the struggles and hopes of this rising generation. iGen
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