All Practices
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The SEL 3 Signature Practices
A tool for fostering a supportive and equitable classroom and school environment and for promoting SEL.
Mindfully Creating Positive Relationships with Students
A short practice for mindfully exploring your emotional experience when you help a student
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
Four Corners
An interactive learning strategy that helps students clarify their own ideas and hear other perspectives—while getting them out of their seats.
Rhyming Body Scan for Young Children
Students practice noticing body sensations and relaxing body parts.
Mindful Seeing for Elementary Students
Students pay close attention to the experience of seeing while observing an object.
Mindful Music Moments
A daily mindfulness and music appreciation practice for the whole school or a single classroom
Reflecting on SEL Skills
Students discuss the SEL skills touched upon during the activity in which they have just participated.
Strategies for Increasing the Use of SEL Skills
A list of strategies for making explicit connections to SEL skills throughout the day in order to reinforce students’ practice of skills
Mindful Listening for Students
Students learn to notice sounds, their beginnings and endings, and the silent spaces between each sound.
Making Families Feel Welcome
Simple ways for teachers, principals, and staff members to help families of all backgrounds feel welcome in the school community
Take-Home Skill: Gratitude Questions for Kids
Discussion questions for families to deepen their child’s experience of gratitude
Take-Home Skill: Deliberate Practice for Students
Strategies for parents and caregivers that teach their children how to practice to help them achieve their goals
Feelings Circle: An SEL Kernels Practice for Kindergarten
In a group meeting, students share their feelings while also building their feelings vocabulary and emotion knowledge.
Finger Tracing: Mindful Breathing for Students
Students track their breathing as they trace up and down the fingers of one hand.
Loving-Kindness Buddy Wishes
Students extend kindness to themselves and others.
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