Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has been found to promote academic success and increase students' commitment to school. Generally, there are five key components that make up social emotional learning. These competencies include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and decision making. Today, I'd like to focus on ways to help students develop self-awareness. Self-awareness includes one's ability to recognize emotions, have an accurate self-perception…

Help your students become more empathetic and compassionate with these social emotional learning lessons and activity ideas that are perfect for back to school or for building classroom community any time of the year. Pull out a copy of Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson and your students will be ready to discuss creating a more compassionate world!

Try these 10 SEL activities for upper elementary classrooms. Don't stress about adding social emotional learning into your day.

Creating a strong classroom community is so important to the function of our classroom and the well-being of our students. Today I’m sharing 17+ ideas for morning meeting topics for that are perfect for your upper elementary morning meetings. Teaching for social and emotional growth through mor

Have you been thinking about adding morning meetings to your classroom? I love doing morning meetings and have seen how effective they can be over the years in my 2nd - 5th grade classrooms. When other teachers sometimes ask me how I fit it all in, I try to explain that doing morning meetings has so many benefits that I feel like I gain time with better classroom behavior and community.

Learn about the importance of SEL and 11 essential ways that teachers can incorporate social-emotional learning activities into the classroom today.

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Social emotional learning is the foundation of a successful classroom by creating an environment of inclusion and respect.

With just 15 minutes, you can easily bring in social emotional learning to your classroom daily! SEL can be easy and fun for your students!