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SEL: Let’s review A Black History Month Reading List – Our perspectives change by taking the time to listen to our African-American brothers and sisters

SEL Exploring Character Education, a Return to Basics Part 2 – Character education produces benefits for both the school and the individual.

In order to teach children to know the good, love the good, and do the good, the good must be defined.

Students are being prevented from using creativity more and more because we want them to be able to produce the learning that is on the outside of the box (i.e., the state testing).

COVID has shut down business as usual at most schools and students are learning in virtual classrooms a lot more than they used to.

Social and Emotional Learning – how the holidays can be a bittersweet mix of joy and grief and the importance of processing grief.

Distance learning and zoom school has been taken to a whole new level in the past year, with many schools going completely remote in the spring.

Social and Emotional Learning – The importance of engaging in dialogue about current events by leaning in to talk and listen to each other.

It’s clear that students need to have a high intrinsic motivation driven by autonomy, competence, and relatedness for more in-depth learning to take place.