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Guiding Students to See Themselves as Changemakers
From Edutopia: "Students may see ways they can effect change if they break down big issues like climate change into smaller, more accessible challenges."
Top Companies Seek Workers With Autism
From Disability Scoop: "The career portal known as the Neurodiversity Career Connector debuted last week. It’s intended to connect neurodivergent job seekers with openings at companies including Microsoft, Google, Freddie Mac, and more."
States Aren’t Meeting Students’ Needs, Wide-Ranging Analysis Shows
From Education Week: "One theme emerged from the analysis: states consistently fell short on collecting data to measure and disseminate the impact of their policies publicly."
Creating a Supportive SEL Forum for English Learner Lesson Contributions
From Language Magazine: "For English learners to participate willingly in a lesson discussion intended to promote a critical SEL competency such as self-awareness, teachers need to offer more than a relevant bell-ringer prompt and quiet journaling time."
3 Ways SEL Helps Students Build Life Readiness
From eSchool News: "SEL can be integrated into content classes, through intentional community building and purpose learning that makes schools more fun and supportive places for students to learn and teachers to teach."
Positive Student-Teacher Relationships Boost Instructional Quality
From K-12 Dive: "Understanding prosocial behaviors’ positive influences on teaching practices could support improved student outcomes, as well as help prevent teacher burnout and stem the tide of teacher shortages."
Equity in Schools Begins With Changing Mindsets
From Edutopia: "A new book explores how school leaders can foster equity by building a culture where teachers and students see their purpose and experience success."
How Parents Can Encourage Their Children’s Social and Emotional Development at Home
From Inside SEL: "Often, the school environment plays a pivotal role in fostering children’s social and emotional development. However, in the COVID era, children are spending an increasing amount of time at home. So how can parents help foster SEL at home?"
Catching Kids Before the Waterfall: The Case for More Proactive SEL
From #PrincipalProject: "If we want to do right by our students, we have got to flip from a sickness-and-crisis model to a wellness model in our schools. This is the great challenge of our field – to proactively step up and build systems to step in before the crisis."
What Middle Schoolers Can Teach Us About Respect
From Greater Good Magazine: "Teens are developing a nuanced understanding of what respect means. Here are some ideas for cultivating more of it in the classroom."