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"I believe in the power of Facing History."

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Facing History & Ourselves
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Facing History & Ourselves is more than our name. It is an active and continuous process that calls on each of us to connect the choices of the past to those we face today. To build a more just and equitable future, we must face our history in all its complexity, Are you ready to face history with us?

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Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

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The interdependence of academic and social-emotional learning is foundational to Collaborative Classroom's pedagogy. An extensive body of research demonstrates what many educators have long known: building a safe and caring school community and attending to social-emotional learning (SEL) are essential to students' overall success.

Children learn best in communities where their basic psychological needs are met, including the needs for autonomy, belonging, and physical and emotional safety. They also need to feel competent and successful in making sense of what they are learning. When such basic needs are met, students feel safe to express themselves and take the risks required for learning.

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Caring School Community, K-8

Caring School Community is a comprehensive, research-based social and emotional learning (SEL) program that builds school-wide community, develops students' social skills and SEL competencies, and enables a transformative stance on discipline.

This CASEL SELect program promotes positive behavior through direct teaching of responsibility, empathy, and cooperation, creating settings where students feel heard, known, and cared for. Students become intrinsically motivated to contribute productively to a community they feel invested in, and where they know they matter.

Alignment with the CASEL Framework

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has awarded Caring School Community its highest designation for high-quality SEL programming, CASEL SELect.

The CASEL SELect designation indicates that Caring School Community is an "evidence-based, well designed, and classroom-based program that systematically promotes students' social and emotional competence, provides opportunities for practice, offers multiyear programming, and delivers high-quality training and other implementation supports."

As a SELect curriculum, Caring School Community "has met or exceeded all of CASEL's criteria for high-quality SEL programming."

Caring School Community is featured in the CASEL Guide to Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs.

Learn more about Caring School Community
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Reconnecting and Rebuilding Toolkit, K-6

Collaborative Classroom's mission is to empower all educators. Our complimentary Reconnecting and Rebuilding Toolkit does just that, helping teachers reconnect with students and revive their learning communities.

Appropriate for all K-6 educators, the Toolkit provides robust guidance for students returning to the classroom (both in-person and virtually), a series of developmentally appropriate community chats or class meetings, and specific recommendations for preparing for remote learning in a variety of circumstances.

Download the complimentary Reconnecting and Rebuilding Toolkit now and watch the on-demand webinar that unpacks the Toolkit and explains how you might use it in your classroom.

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Social-Emotional Learning, Grades K-8 | Center for the Collaborative Classroom

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The interdependence of academic and social-emotional learning is foundational to Collaborative Classroom's pedagogy. An extensive body of research demonstrates what many educators have long known: building a safe and caring school community and attending to social-emotional learning (SEL) are essential to students' overall success. Children learn best in communities where their basic psychological needs are [...]

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Teacher Beliefs as an Influencer on Social & Emotional Learning

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Today's back-to-school strategies should adopt to how the pandemic has affected everyone. It all starts with social-economic learning.

The trauma of the pandemic has affected every student. As schools prepare to reopen, we can't expect children to pick up where they left off last year. The world has changed, and so have they.

Families' encounters with illness, death, and economic instability follow students to school. The sense of isolation that children have experienced and their inability to interact in familiar ways with schoolmates have been stressful and traumatic. The post-election civil unrest and the past year's racist incidents have heightened children's anxiety. Inequalities existing before the pandemic have been exacerbated, further compromising students' wellbeing. As students return to school, our focus on social-emotional learning assumes a new level of urgency.

Focusing on relationships

The pandemic has underscored how much classroom relationships matter. When students feel connected to adults and peers in school, they perform at higher levels, feel better about themselves, and are more resilient to stress. Being able to manage emotions, achieve goals, show empathy, appreciate diversity, maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions provides a safety net for students now and into the future. As the pandemic has dramatically demonstrated, all learning is social and emotional.

Schools can support social-emotional development and help children recover from trauma. Returning to a familiar schedule and structure bestows a sense of normalcy; hence, providing social work and mental health supports is critical. Inviting students to discuss recent events conveys that they are not alone, and they can grow from difficult experiences. Additional resources and instructional supports can mitigate achievement and opportunity gaps.

Making everyone feel welcome

In addition to teaching social skills directly through evidence-based programs, schools can establish classroom communities where students feel known, valued, and affirmed. Teachers can use morning and closing elementary classroom meetings, middle and high school advisory groups, student-to-student mentoring, and collaborative learning to foster an inclusive and equitable school.

Schools can also address students' concerns through content instruction. Language arts teachers can highlight the social and emotional issues that literary characters face, while science and social studies teachers can point out how real-life conflicts were resolved. Educators can acknowledge students' diversity by ensuring their races and cultures are reflected throughout the curriculum. And schools can reinforce social skills through service experiences, such as assisting less fortunate community members or improving the environment.

The pandemic has made evident what researchers in brain science, medicine, psychology, and education have long proclaimed: that students benefit when the school's environment and instruction place equal their focus on social, emotional, and academic development. The return to school presents an opportunity to implement social-emotional learning approaches that address the issues students bring with them, while promoting long-term success for all.

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A Compelling Moment for Social-Emotional Learning - Education and Career News

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