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A Quick-Guide To Teaching Empathy In The Classroom

Teaching empathy in the classroom? Start a Random Acts of Kindness project so students can support a classmate, or someone in their community.

It’s time to shift focus from checking to see if students are completing their remote learning assignments to checking to see if students are ‘okay.’

Literacy / May 13, 2020 June 4, 2020 / Mental Health, Whole Child

The more we click on the things that spark anger and fear in us and in others, the more of that kind of content we will see.

Empathy focuses on a mutual and shared emotional experience, whereas sympathy moves more swiftly from feeling with to feeling for.

Where do you begin teaching meditation when you may not be familiar with the practice yourself?

Habits of Mind are dispositions mindfully employed by characteristically ‘successful’ people when confronted with problems.

The most fundamental idea in public education–the infinite interdependence of living that scrutiny of schools misses entirely.

Teaching / August 9, 2019 August 31, 2020 / 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?”

As a teacher, you can help your student understand how to adjust their thinking in a way that contributes to their social emotional well-being.

Uncategorized / April 16, 2018 October 31, 2018 / Whole Child, Y-Life

12 Ways To Make Sure A Child Feels Loved by Laura LeMaster Did you know the first Saturday of April …

I eventually left the school. It was clear to me that my presence was to be white muscle disguised in black skin.

Students who are challenging–i.e. victims of disruptive childhoods–do not change overnight. They require time to grow.