Topic: SEL

Supporting Grieving Students This and Every Holiday Season

Teachers hold the power to change the trajectory of a grieving student’s life, and our gestures of support need not be large in order to make an impact.

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Practical resources to help you start the year off creating genuine connection and deepening learning in your classroom, from day one.

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How might a growth mindset guide us in grief work at school, especially when we are experiencing vicarious trauma or grief? A blog post from Brittany Collins.

Embracing Grief in the Classroom Podcast

Addressing grief in the classroom can be challenging, but educators play a special role in helping students move through difficult life events.

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Having a set of strategies to turn to when confronting loss at school helps us stay grounded and tuned-in, better serving students and ourselves.

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When we model how expert learners learn from mistakes, we show that process as an essential part of participating in the world.

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Attending professional development and learning the research behind these terms is important so that we don't build an inaccurate version of what they mean for your role in education and the impact they have on leaders and learning communities. 

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When teachers take on the work of culturally responsive teaching, they commit to ensuring that marginalized students not only can, but will improve their school achievement.

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Reflection is an essential practice to relationship-building. We cannot always be our best selves but reflection helps us prepare for a better future with students.

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When students have lots of choices about what they will write about and how they will write it, there are many benefits.

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The Caring Teacher offers a challenge to all of us all to find a way to care about every student, especially the ones who feel the hardest to like.

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How to Build More Positive Teacher-Student Relationships