Whole Child Archives

5 Strategies For Incorporating Social Emotional Learning Into Your Classroom

These five strategies social emotional learning strategies will not only benefit students, but can also be beneficial to teachers, too.

Can you teach empathy? By defining, identifying, discussing, and modeling it, it isn’t much different than other Social Emotional Learning.

Children’s books to teach about Hispanic heritage answer questions like, ‘What came before me? Who came before me? How do I relate to each?’

This Full Sensory mindfulness activity, combined with the ‘non-thinking zone,’ are important assets for teachers and students.

Literacy / March 27, 2023 / Whole Child

If your child doesn’t read over the summer, they are missing out on the significant role reading can play in personal growth.

Lisa Thomas Prince and Lori Gustafson offer the following ten tips for teaching mindfulness in the classroom at any grade level.

So you’ve been told to play outside, and you’re not sure what to do. There’s no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and the sun’s glaring on your iPad.

Teaching / August 11, 2022 / Whole Child

Everyone needs somebody, and the first day of school is one of those times. It is comforting to find a familiar face in an unfamiliar room.

Teaching / August 10, 2022 / Whole Child

Here are 12 questions to ask students on the first day of school, including: “What do you need from me to be successful this year?”

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a theoretical framework comprising a tiered model of human needs often depicted as a pyramid.

Teaching / March 13, 2022 / Whole Child

I shifted my teaching from what my students might ‘become’ in the future to who they are and what they need today.

Instead, schools that are working at implementing whole-child strategies should do so within the context of everyday teaching and learning.