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.
Scientific Body Scan Visualization
Students practice appreciating the body’s processes in a deeply mindful way.
Teaching Senior Citizens About Technology
Students forge intergenerational relationships while strengthening their digital citizenship and troubleshooting skills.
Affirming Important Values
A quick reflection tool to help when you feel defensive or threatened
Questions of Wonder
Build trust and understanding among students by exploring questions of wonder.
Mindfully Creating Positive Relationships with Students
A short practice for mindfully exploring your emotional experience when you help a student
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.
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.
A Moment for Me: A Self-Compassion Break for Teens
Students learn how to comfort themselves during stressful times.
Mindful Poetry Moments
A daily mindfulness and poetry appreciation practice for the whole school or a single classroom
Earthrise: Bearing Witness to Our Planet
Students reflect on what it means to “bear witness” to something.
Earthrise: Fostering Awe
Students reflect on how the Earthrise photograph instills a sense of awe and wonder towards our planet.
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