by Charlie Merrow | Nov 2, 2020 | Social-emotional Learning
The Texas Model and TEKS Standards Everything is bigger in Texas, right? Even social-emotional learning! That’s why this month, our team took a deeper dive into the social-emotional learning standards for the biggest state in the US: Texas. Specifically, we focused on...
by Charlie Merrow | Oct 12, 2020 | Social-emotional Learning
Cooperative Learning Strategies For Teachers Schools across the world use their professional-development time to train teachers on new pedagogies and updated school policies. However, are these times in PD always effective? Many times, professional developments...
by Charlie Merrow | Sep 4, 2020 | Social-emotional Learning
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...
by Charlie Merrow | Aug 7, 2020 | Trauma-informed Teaching
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...
by Charlie Merrow | Jun 30, 2020 | Social-emotional Learning
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...