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5 Vocabulary Games That Build Content Knowledge
From Edutopia: "Subject-specific vocabulary goes hand-in-hand with a deep and meaningful knowledge of content. It allows us to engage with that subject, unlocks understanding, and promotes clear and precise communication."
How to Engage Students the Moment They Enter the Classroom
From Edutopia: "Making sure that your warm-up activity is both substantive and highly engaging, or even downright fun—drawing students into the classroom and the lesson—takes practice and some trial and error, but veteran teachers say it’s worth the effort to get it...
What Does SEL Mean Anyway? Seven Experts Break It Down
From Education Week: "What, exactly, social-emotional learning is can be hard to pin down. To help clear some of this confusion, Education Week reached out to researchers and practitioners in the field to ask them to define social-emotional learning and compiled their...
Study Finds Adults Play a Key Role in Recess Participation
From Synergies: "Researchers found that adult engagement and supervision during the recess period – adults actively participating in games and activities, making sure equipment is out and ready for use and ensuring conflicts are resolved quickly – is the strongest...
Building Empathy in Children Takes Practice. Parents Can Help.
From The Washington Post: "At a time like this, it can seem to parents more urgent to promote empathy — but also more difficult. Learning empathy is like playing an instrument or learning a sport. It’s a lot about practice."
10 Reasons to Support Inclusive School Communities for ALL Students
From the TIES Center, "Research demonstrates that a learning community is better, richer, and more effective when students with disabilities are full participants. Educators, students, and families have found many compelling reasons to support inclusive education for...
Teachers’ Strategies for Pronouncing and Remembering Students’ Names Correctly
From KQED: " While mispronouncing a student’s name may seem minor, it can have a significant impact on how they see themselves and their cultural background, causing feelings of anxiety, invisibility, shame, resentment and humiliation, all of which can lead to social...
Using Problem-Solving to Build Community From Day 1
From Edutopia: "When math students work together to solve logic puzzles on the first day of class, they learn to trust one another, setting the stage for the classroom community that we will cocreate throughout the year."
SEL Possibilities in Physical Education
From Edutopia: "PE is a subject that supports the full picture of healthy lives. As a result, physical education offers a valuable opportunity to impact all areas of student development—physical, mental, social, and emotional. Better yet, all of these are packed into...
Weaving SEL into Curriculum Doesn’t Have to be Hard
From eSchool News: "Encouraging dialogue about social-emotional and mental health is already a serious and often daunting endeavor for educators. Using comics can make the discussion welcoming and successful for diverse learners."