How Do You Teach Social-Emotional Learning?
Social-emotional learning is part of the bedrock of critical literacy: helping them care enough to change themselves.
Social-emotional learning is part of the bedrock of critical literacy: helping them care enough to change themselves.

Slowing the โsummer slideโ through daily reading, writing, and ‘playing’ supports children in developing learning habits that endure.

Every lesson plan should have a clear and compelling–and accessible–role for each student during each moment of the lesson.

Teachers are guides and coaches and content experts. A ‘post-progressive’ teacher would be empowered, not replaced.

One student engagement strategy is to offer diverse pathways through content–pathways students would have to ‘unlock’ to progress.

Make any politician voting on legislation have to qualify for that right to vote by spending a certain number of hours in the classroom.

While screen time certainly matters, focusing only on time is like developing a literacy program that focuses only on ‘minutes read.’

I learned that my classroom wasn’t *my* classroom. Rather, it was a learning space for children. The classroom belonged to them.

In the Age of Information, data has moved from singular places (here and there) to infinitely plural realities.

What kinds of questions to ask students support what they’ve learned remotely and enhance their ability to apply it?

Good work is applying your affection, intellect, and specific ‘genius’ on people and places you depend on and that depend on you.
Questions are indicators of engagement and curiosity in learning. Just as usefully, they are evidence for what a student understands.
Anxiety is feeling like your skin is coursing with electricity, which creates this kind of heat over your skin. It smothers you.

Learning channels’ refer to the unique pathways students most naturally–and powerfully–use to develop skills and understanding.