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Social Emotional Skills | Communication | Care | Conflict Resolution | Collaboration | Emotions

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"Sesame Street: Mark Ruffalo: Empathy"
2:28 * Sesame Street

Discussion Questions

This video teaches you about empathy. What is empathy?

Why is empathy important?

Share a story of a time someone understood the way you were feeling.

"Kindness Through Their Eyes"
2:31 * Dalai Lama Center for Peace & Education

Discussion Questions

What's one way the kids in the video describe what it means to be kind?

Why is it important to be kind every day?

What are some ways you are kind to others?

How are others kind to you?

"Controlling Emotions for Kids"
2:43 * Math & Learning Videos 4 Kids

Discussion Questions

What do you think Mr. Box needs to work on so he doesn't explode?

How could you help Mr. Box control his emotions?

What are some things you can do to help control your own emotions?

"Managing Worry and Anxiety for Kids"
3:15 * Flocabulary

Discussion Questions

Where in his body does Joey feel his worry?

What do you worry about?

What can you do to help yourself when you feel worried? (Self-talk, talk to a trusted adult, deep breaths, focusing on what is happening around you)

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Grades K-2Videos to Support Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) - Changing Perspectives

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"Sesame Street: Mark Ruffalo: Empathy" 2:28 * Sesame Street Discussion Questions This video teaches you about empathy. What is empathy? Why is empathy important? Share a story of a time someone understood the way you were feeling.

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Free Social Emotional Learning Activities

Welcome to our free Social Emotional Learning Activities page. Below you will find free resources - lessons, activities, and printables - in the following skill areas: Communication, Cooperation, Emotion Regulation, Empathy, Impulse Control, and Social Initiation.

These resources are age-appropriate for elementary and middle school students and are typically used in a classroom or a small group setting. And in most cases, if materials are required for the activity, they are items that you already have in your classroom or office.

As you will see below, many of the activities and lesson plans include characters from our online social skills games. And if you are using or plan to use the online games, these activities will reinforce the learning that occurs during gameplay.

Note: You may reproduce or reuse these lessons with students via other platforms like Google Classroom as needed. And if appropriate, we would appreciate you sharing this page on your school website so other educators may also benefit.

If you are new to Social Emotional Learning, please make sure and look at our Introduction to Social Emotional Learning, and if you need information to share with parents, we have a Guide to Social Emotional Skills at Home.

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Welcome to our free Social Emotional Learning Activities page. Below you will find free resources - lessons, activities, and printables - in the following skill areas: Communication, Cooperation, Emotion Regulation, Empathy, Impulse Control, and Social Initiation. These resources are age-appropriate for elementary and middle school students and are typically used in a classroom or a small group setting.

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Students are encouraged to make the world a better place by starting their own Joyful Rebellion. Rather than an angry face and a raised fist, their weapons will be a smile and a high five. Small changes can make a big difference!

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BRAD STORY: THIS IS A JOYFUL REBELLION - Montague Workshop

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Students are encouraged to make the world a better place by starting their own Joyful Rebellion. Rather than an angry face and a raised fist, their weapons will be a smile and a high five. Small changes can make a big difference!

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Social and emotional learning, often known as SEL, is the process that helps kids learn critical skills, attitudes, and mindsets for social and emotional success. These skills cover five major areas: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision-making. It's actually difficult to describe in just one sentence because SEL covers everything from building confidence and managing emotions to making friends and understanding ethical decision-making skills. These are truly the foundational skills that help kids to be successful in and out of school.

It's important to note that SEL isn't just one activity. It's a philosophy that educators, administrators, and entire schools must adopt in order to help all kids build mental and emotional strength. Simply put, incorporating social emotional learning into classrooms helps kids thrive. Many educators might at first feel there is not enough time to add one more thing into the school day. Again, that's why it's important to think of SEL as something we integrate into what we're already doing rather than something that gets "added on". I created this list to help educators and schools have a starting point for integrating free SEL strategies and resources into their already-busy days. If you aren't sure where to start, just choose one or two things. Help your learners build their confidence, learn strategies to cope with tough emotions, discuss what true friendship is, identify strategies for solving real-life problems, and so on.

Here are free social emotional learning resources:
PRINTABLE RESOURCES:
Self-Awareness:

Growth Mindset Task Cards - Use these task cards to help students learn they can accomplish their goals with hard work and grit.
Self-Management:

Calming Posters - Simple calming posters for a calm down area that remind kids to relax and breathe.

Motivation Workbook - Workbook to help students learn strategies for motivation and completing tasks.

Homework Binder - Resource that helps students organize their binders and have a dedicated spot for homework.

Executive Functioning Poster - Visual reference to help kids and young adults remember critical executive functioning skills, including organization and planning.
Social Awareness:

Kindness Activity - Quick lesson and kindness challenge to promote a positive climate.
Relationships:

Working with Others - Teach students explicitly how to effectively work with others in partners and groups.
Decision-Making:

Character Posters - Posters that remind students about integrity, kindness, and working hard.

Everyday Speech Social Skills Games (social awareness, relationships, decision-making) - Interactive online games for social skills, including conversation skills, school behavior, problem solving, and more.

Breathe, Think, Do (self-management, decision-making) - Use with younger learners to help practice deep breathing and problem-solving skills.

Go Noodle (self-management) - Hundreds of videos to help kids take a brain break and practice mindfulness.

Headspace: Guided Meditation & Mindfulness (self-awareness, self-management) - This app provides meditation exercises with a coach that helps you learn as you go.

The Mindfulness App (self-awareness, self-management) - A mindfulness app that helps you become more present in your daily life with guided and silent meditation sessions.

Learn Social Skills (social awareness, relationships) - Use video lessons and readings to help kids learn skills.

Aware (self-awareness, self-management) - This app leads you through daily mindfulness meditation techniques, including energizing activities and breathing practice.

Stop Breathe & Think: Meditate (self-awareness, self-management) - Tailored to your specific emotions, this app helps you take a break and reduce stress through meditation.

Listening Skills (social awareness, relationships) - Strategies for becoming an active listener.

MyCalmBeat (self-awareness, self-management) - This app provides training and practice in slow, deep breathing for stress reduction.

Breathe (self-management) - An app that assists in controlling your breathing.

Gratitude Journal (self-awareness, self-management) - This app helps you focus on the positive by identifying what you are thankful for each day.

Kids Coping Skill Puzzle (self-management) - Build a puzzle while sorting between positive and negative coping skills.

Affirmation Reminder (self-awareness) - Select from a list of positive affirmations or make your own to add as reminders.

ColorMe (self-awareness, self-management) - Free coloring app to help reduce stress.

WEBSITES FOR EDUCATORS:
CLASSROOM STRATEGIES:

Hold a morning meeting. Use this time to check-in with students, review expectations, and start the day.

Do a check-in and check-out with specific students in need to monitor their social-emotional needs.

Build strong relationships from the start.

Model and discuss social skills, highlighting them throughout the day.

Use literature to highlight social and emotional skills.

Incorporate consequences that give back to the community instead of punishments.

Note that these books aren't free, but it is always free to borrow from your local library, so I wanted to share them!
Self-Awareness:

How Do I Feel? by Norma Simon (ages 2 to 7)

Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee (ages 3 to 8)

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman (ages 4 to 8)

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell (ages 5 to 8)

Self-Management:

When I Feel Frustrated by Marcia Leonard (ages 2 to 6)

Super George and the Invisible Shield by Laurie P. Mendoza (ages 7 to 11)

Know and Follow Rule by Cheri Meiners (ages 3 to 6)

There Might Be Lobsters by Carolyn Crimi (ages 3 to 7)

Social Awareness:

When I Care About Others by Cornelia Maude Spelman (ages 5 to 7)

Can You Tell How Someone Feels by Nita Everly (ages 3 to 6)

Hugo and the Bully Frogs by Francesca Simon (ages 3 to 7)

Relationships:

Can You Be a Friend? by Nita Everly (ages 3 to 6)

We Are Best Friends by Aliki (ages 4 to 7)

You're All My Favorites by Sam McBratney (ages 5 to 7)

Decision-Making:

I Did It, I'm Sorry by Caralyn Buehner (ages 5 to 8)

The Decisive Dolphin by Efrat Haddi (ages 3 to 8)

Someday by Eileen Spinelli (ages 4 to 8)

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100+ Free Social Emotional Learning Resources

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Social and emotional learning, often known as SEL, is the process that helps kids learn critical skills, attitudes, and mindsets for social and emotional success. These skills cover five major areas: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision-making. I

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The SEL Resource Finder provides resources to help you learn about Social and Emotional Learning, apply teaching methodologies and assess your efforts.

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Choose Love programs include Growth Mindset, Neuroscience, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Post-Traumatic Growth, Emotional Intelligence, and more for a solution that is both preventative and proactive. Choose Love is aligned with the new Character and Social Emotional Development Standards (CSED) which include BOTH Character.org and CASEL.

We can make our world better by Choosing Love.

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Choose Love Movement - Promoting Hope, Healing & Connection

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We create safer and more loving communities through groundbreaking social and emotional learning (SEL) and character development programs.

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Improving the health and happiness of the world, one educator at a time.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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The SEL Roadmap is designed to support school leaders and leadership teams in planning for the transition back to schools

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The SEL Roadmap is designed to support school leaders and leadership teams in planning for the transition back to schools

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As educators across the country prepared to welcome students and adults back to school in Fall 2020, they faced the layered impact of school closures, the COVID-19 pandemic, and racial inequities exacerbated by the pandemic and amplified by the nationwide mobilization for racial justice. The return to school this year will be unlike any other in our history. This moment called on all members of our school communities to deepen our social and emotional competencies and create equitable learning environments where all students and adults process, heal, and thrive.

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Reunite, Renew, and Thrive: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Roadmap for Reopening School - CASEL

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As educators across the country prepared to welcome students and adults back to school in Fall 2020, they faced the layered impact of school closures, the COVID-19 pandemic, and racial inequities exacerbated by the pandemic and amplified by the nationwide mobilization for racial justice.

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What Is My Enneagram Type? | Free Test with Your Enneagram Coach

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Take the first step in personal growth with the Enneagram by using our three-step process to help discover your Type. Take our free assessment now!

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Demby's Playful Parables Kids Songs and Stories

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Simon The Self Control Seal | Demby's Playful Parables | kids stories | 2d animation| kids channel

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Self Care Ideas based on your enneagram type

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Self Care Ideas based on your enneagram type

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For those of you who don't know, enneagram types are determined by identifying patterns in behavior and grouping them into different groups based off of personality and behavior! As a psychology major, I've become increasingly more interested in learning about these different personality types!

As I've studied each type, I've come up with a few different self care activities that would work well for each different type! Self care is something everyone should practice, but not every form of self care works for everyone. So here are the nine enneagram types explained and some self care activities that could work well for you!

If you don't know what type you are, there are plenty of free tests online that can help you figure it out! I'm a type nine, which I found to be incredibly accurate!

ENNEAGRAM ONE:

Type one's are known as the reformers! People who are type one typically have a strong moral compass and are all about honesty, authenticity, and often have a touch of perfectionism in them!

Their ideal self care activities could be:

Cleaning + organizing their home

Trying a new recipe

Creating a to-do list and checking off each item

Binging a TV show

Expressing creativity

Finding ways to donate + be charitable

Support small businesses

Type twos are known as the helpers! They love to feel useful and be able to help and nurture others whenever they can!

Their ideal self care activities could be:

Spa day

Crying it out

Coffee dates

Journaling + self reflection

Lots of hugs!

Go on a morning walk

ENNEAGRAM THREE:

Type threes are known as the achievers! 3's thrive most when they feel accomplished!

Their ideal self care activities could be:

Exercising

Staying busy

Planning + scheduling

Listening to a podcast

Meditation

Listening to music

Take a break from social media

ENNEAGRAM FOUR:

Type fours are known as the individualists. Fours are typically very creative, artistic, and tend to be more emotional!

Their ideal self care activities could be:

Being creative

Writing poetry

Watching rom-coms

Writing in a gratitude journal

Finding + testing new recipes

Reading + journaling

Yoga

Addressing emotional needs in whatever way works for them

Stay hydrated

Therapy

ENNEAGRAM FIVE:

Type fives are known as the investigators! Five's love to learn and problem solve!

Their ideal self care activities could be:

ENNEAGRAM SIX:

Type sixes are known as the loyalists. Sixes crave security. They're typically very loyal and responsible.

Their ideal self care activities could be:

ENNEAGRAM SEVEN:

Type sevens are known as the enthusiasts! Sevens are motivated by freedom and spontaneity!

Their ideal self care activities could be:

Type eights are known as the challengers! Eights strive to be in control!

Their ideal self care activities could be:

ENNEAGRAM NINE:

Type nines are known as the peacemakers. They tend to go with the flow and avoid conflict at all costs!

Their ideal self care activities could be:

Surrounding themselves with candles, blankets, and their pets

Light exercise

Feeling unproductive

Quiet time with a book + coffee or tea

Taking a warm bath

Getting some fresh air + spending time in nature

Check out more of my content at: http://aestheticallyanxious.com

hey everyone! i'm jazmyn and i'm passionate about both writing and mental health, so i combined them in this blog! i have panic disorder and depression that i use as inspiration for these blog posts that are meant to provide guidance and hope for others!

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Self Care Based On Enneagram Types - Aesthetically Anxious

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You know you love your child. But how can you make sure your child knows it?

The #1 New York Times bestselling The 5 Love Languages® has helped millions of couples learn the secret to building a love that lasts. Now discover how to speak your child's love language in a way that he or she understands. Dr. Gary Chapman and Dr. Ross Campbell help you:

Discover your child's love language

Assist your child in successful learning

Use the love languages to correct and discipline more effectively

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Plus: Find dozens of tips for practical ways to speak your child's love language.

Discover your child's primary language-then speak it-and you will be well on your way to a stronger relationship with your flourishing child.

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Book 0 in the BOOKS series in the FAMILY genre. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books A Million, Moody Publishers, Google Play. More than 1 MILLION sold! You know you love your child. But how can you make sure your child knows it? The #1 New York Tim...

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OFFER A QUICK CONNECTION

If you could meet any famous person and ask him or her a question, who would it be and what would you ask?

NEWS & UPDATES

Download the latest mobile-friendly updates.

Adapt SEL Lessons and Activities to the needs of your remote classroom.

CALENDAR & EVENTS

Attending a Live Training Session?

OFFER A QUICK CONNECTION

If you could meet any famous person and ask him or her a question, who would it be and what would you ask?

Family Letter

Welcome Letter

Pacing Plan

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OFFER A QUICK CONNECTION If you could meet any famous person and ask him or her a question, who would it be and what would you ask? NEWS & UPDATES Download the latest mobile-friendly updates. Adapt SEL Lessons and Activities to the needs of your remote classroom.

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Find Books

A selection of some of the best children's books for encouraging speech and language development in young children.
Use the filter function to search for specific speech and language goals within these books.

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We are working hard to get more books up, so keep checking back regularly.

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Easily Find Great Children's Books for Speech and Language Development

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A selection of some of the best children's books for encouraging speech and language development in young children. Use the filter function to search for specific speech and language goals within these books. Sorry, there are no books matching your search criteria. We are working hard to get more books up, so keep checking back regularly.

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Listen to the newest epsiode of The Imagine Neighborhood, a kind and kooky kids podcast that helps families talk about the things that matter with the people that matter most!

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I am an elementary school counselor. In my former life, have been a high school teacher, college of education academic advisor, real estate broker, and home remodeler.

The guidepost which orients my counseling style is that we are wired for connection. I am also anchored by multicultural, wholistic, feminist, solution-focused, and postmodern therapeutic perspectives.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Masters in Counseling and American Studies.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Mostly I believe in black tea at 4am, kindness, libraries, showing up, being brave, hard work, a good pair of running shoes, second chances, and chocolate. Also, ain't nothing more lovely than family bike rides, game nights, and watching your children take flight.

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SEL Toolkit for educators to help take care of ourselves 

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SEL Toolkit for educators to help take care of ourselves 

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What is SEL for Educators?

Social-emotional learning (SEL) shares some similarities with terms such as emotional intelligence, resilience, well-being and self-care. However, the specific components of SEL for adults in school settings are unique.
Educator SEL is:

The competencies that adults need in order to manage stress and create a safe and supportive classroom environment

The skills and mindsets that adults need to effectively embody, teach, model and coach SEL for students

The overall well-being and emotional state of adults in school settings

Based on a synthesis of the latest research, we have created Five High-Leverage Practices to streamline learning, practice, and application. None of the outlined practices, skills, or strategies works in isolation. They interact dynamically and are part of an ongoing process of learning and development.

Why Download the SEL for Educators Toolkit?

This toolkit can be used in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), staff meetings, professional development, training sessions, or for individual learning, reflection, and practice.

For the purposes of this resource, educator refers to any adult in a school setting who interacts with students. This can include, but is not limited to, classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, principals, deans, instructional coaches, specialists, special education teachers, and coaches. Although this resource can be used by individuals, we encourage collaboration as a way to understand the content, engage in practice, and to expand perspective by processing in community.
The toolkit focuses on the following objectives:

Educators will reflect on the importance and impact of their own social-emotional learning.

Educators will learn Five High-Leverage Practices to support their own social-emotional development and well-being.

Using embedded activities, educators will deepen their understanding and strengthen their skills related to the Five High-Leverage Practices.

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The toolkit is designed to be flexible and adaptable; educators can review and use the tools in their entirety, or select one or more focus areas. Due to the wealth of resources focused on system-level support, this toolkit focuses on what educators can do to support their individual growth.

Below, you can download TransformEd's SEL for Educators Toolkit for educators and school leaders focusing on the social-emotional development and well-being of the adults in school settings.
The Toolkit contains the following resources:

The Professional Learning Presentation is divided into three sections: The What: Defining Educator SEL, The Why: Supporting Evidence, and The How: High-Leverage Practice. It is designed to provide both content and opportunities for engagement and practice.

The Companion Guide presents additional details about the interactive components outlined in the presentation, as well as suggestions for pacing, facilitation, application, and further learning.

The Snapshot summarizes the Five High-Leverage Practices and their corresponding strategies in a simple and accessible handout.

The Reference List provides a comprehensive list of the resources consulted during the development of this tool for those who would like to dig deeper into the research on this topic.

Mini Modules

We will be releasing six mini modules to introduce our SEL for Educators Toolkit. This toolkit is extensive, therefore each module aims to synthesize the material and walk you through it using the following breakdown:

Module 1 - An Overview: The What, The Why, & The How

Module 2 - Examine Identity

Module 3 - Explore Emotions

Module 4 - Cultivate Compassionate Curiosity

Module 5 - Orient Towards Optimism

Module 6 - Establish Balance & Boundaries

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What is SEL for Educators? Social-emotional learning (SEL) shares some similarities with terms such as emotional intelligence, resilience, well-being and self-care. However, the specific components of SEL for adults in school settings are unique.