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Take-Home Skill: Creating Happy Memories
Students spend a day or two doing a variety of meaningful activities.
Gift of Time
Spend quality time with people you care about.
Take-Home Skill: Humility Reflection for Teens
Strategies for parents and caregivers to help teens understand and practice being humble
Seeing the Positive Side of Things
Students and staff lessen their stress by changing their outlook on a negative event.
Expressive Writing
Students use writing as a tool to explore their emotions and challenges
Good Group Work in Math
A norm-setting activity to help create an environment for productive, positive, and equitable group work in math class
Four 4s
An opening math activity that provides students the opportunity to appreciate different ways of achieving the same answer.
Number Talk
A brief learning activity that demonstrates the many different ways people see math and builds students’ flexibility with numbers.
Dot Card Number Talk
A short but powerful number sense activity that shows students the visual nature of math, creativity in math, and that there are many different ways people see math.
Mindset Boosting Messages for Math
Boost students’ growth mindset in math through a short video and discussion.
Take-Home Skill: Pleasant Events Calendar for Kids and Teens
A practice for parents and caregivers to help their child or teen plan enjoyable activities as a form of self-care
Pleasant Events Calendar for Students
Help students plan enjoyable activities as a form of self-care
Standing Up Against Discrimination
Students explore real-world examples to help them identify peaceful ways to respond to discrimination.
Crumpled Reminder
Help students (or staff) understand that mistakes are important for learning and growing our intelligence.
It's Up to Us to Stick Our Necks Out
Students hear and share inspiring stories compassionate risk-takers and then develop their own service project.
Who Are Your Heroes?
Through stories, discussion, and creative presentations about true heroes, students foster their compassion for others and see brave community involvement as an admirable, heroic way of life.
Strategies for Teaching Fearless SEL for Societal Change
Ways to use SEL for cultivating youth agency and civic engagement
Check for Understanding Circle
Use the Circle process to encourage students to safely and respectfully share their level of understanding on an academic topic.