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Mindfulness and SEL are equally important. Students won’t be able to effectively demonstrate their emotions unless they have that “mindfulness” skill to know what their emotions are.

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Three main challenges to teaching sel, lack of understanding and trading with principals of sel, failure to continue and lack of potency, lack of ongoing support.

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The acronym SAFE for how we should teach SEL competencies in the classroom. Sequenced activities, Active forms of learning, Focused emphasis, and Explicit teaching.
SEL can be fostered in many settings other than school and connected with what students should be learning in school, both academically and socially.

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Surprising fact: While scientists and educators agree on the need to teach emotions, they don’t agree on how many there are and what they are.

RULER: 5 goals for emotional learning

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1. Close teacher-student relationships make students WANT to perform better academically and socially.
2. SEL students have fewer occurrences of depression, anxiety, stress, and social withdrawal. (Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale)