Daily SEL
How to Teach Social-Emotional Learning Everyday Interested in teaching an SEL curriculum daily? Below is our plan for how any teacher could implement SEL five days a week. The following curriculum plan works either fully online, face-to-face, or through hybrid...
Trauma-Informed Management
What does trauma-informed teaching have to do management? As part of our work with K-12 schools on SEL, we train teachers on trauma-informed teaching, which means teaching in a way that is sensitive and responsive to the many students who have experienced...
Mindfulness in Kindergarten
How do I teach mindfulness to kindergarteners? We already know the benefits of mindfulness for kids, but how exactly should you get your youngest learners practicing mindfulness? Let’s take a closer look at what exactly mindfulness is, how to practice it in elementary...
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness
How to Teach Trauma-Informed Mindfulness to Kids While every student, classroom, and school is different, research shows many benefits of teaching trauma-informed mindfulness in your classroom. Like any classroom intervention, there are ways to differentiate and make...
Empowering Education & Conflict Resolution
How does Empowering Education teach conflict resolution? Of all themes that Empowering Education covers, conflict resolution is high on the list. Conflict is in the halls of any middle school, and where it doesn’t exist it that seems teens can create it from thin air....
Creating a Trauma-Informed Classroom
How to Create a Trauma-Informed Classroom If you teach kids who suffer from PTSD, there are things you can do in a trauma-informed classroom to help your students cope. We've compiled the top ten changes teachers can make to their classrooms to help students feel...
The Man Behind Empowering Education
An Interview with Andy, Empowering Education’s Founder Andy Wilfong, founder of Empowering Education, has advocated for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools for over a decade. We spoke to him on July 14, 2020 about where he started with SEL and where the...
How PTSD Affects Adult Learning
How does trauma impact adult learners? Trauma & PTSD impacts adults and children physically, emotionally, and intellectually. Trauma is the experience of an event that overwhelms our nervous system and that occurs when our ability to protect ourselves fails, and...
A Classroom Activity for Managing Emotions
Teaching Social-Emotional Learning to Elementary Students Fun and engaging activities are one way to get elementary schoolers to buy into the lessons and topics. Let’s do a classroom activity for emotional management to get our heart rates up and then we’ll see if we...
Trauma Informed Teaching
An eBook Series
This eBook series highlights the essential role educators play in identifying and mitigating the challenges faced by students who have experienced trauma, thereby fostering a more supportive and effective learning environment.
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