All Practices
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Use Your Strengths
Make a plan to use one of your personal strengths every day—and then do it!
Overcoming Obstacles to an Open Heart
School staff discuss what opens and closes their hearts in the classroom using Focused Listening and Speaking with each other.
Self-Assessing Social and Emotional Instruction and Competencies
Educators reflect upon their SEL teaching practices and their own social-emotional competencies for implementing those teaching practices.
Make Fast Friends
Students establish and build friendships with classmates in a safe way.
Quotes and Sayings: A Contemplative Practice
Observe how time and contemplation can influence your ability to gain important insights about your work.
Positivity Journals for Teachers
Build your well-being by keeping a journal of your pleasant feelings throughout the day
Mindfully Creating Positive Relationships with Students
A short practice for mindfully exploring your emotional experience when you help a student
Three-Minute De-Stressor for Teachers
A brief mindfulness exercise to help ground you during a stressful moment or day
Stepping Up Family Engagement Through Dance
Ideas for promoting family involvement through the joy of dance
The World is a Dance
Students use dance to learn about the world and celebrate diversity.
Getting to Know Each Other Through Dance
Students practice their social skills with each other while learning a new dance move
Understanding Universe of Obligation
Students explore how groups, communities, and nations define who belongs and who does not, and how these decisions are made.
Responding to Differences
Students explore how our beliefs about differences influence the ways in which we see and choose to interact with each other.
From Sympathy to Action
Students think about the factors that encourage and discourage people to act when they confront suffering or injustice.
Four Corners
An interactive learning strategy that helps students clarify their own ideas and hear other perspectives—while getting them out of their seats.
Active Listening for School Staff
School staff connect with each other through empathy and understanding.
Carousel Brainstorming
A cooperative learning technique that engages all students’ participation through movement, discussion, and communication of ideas.
Loving-Kindness for Someone You Care About
Students mentally send good wishes to someone who is important to them.
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