3 student goal setting activities for the elementary classroom! Help your class set New Year's resolutions, or goals for or any time of year.

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!

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…

Here are some of my favorite tried and true activities to help build community in the classroom and classroom traditions.

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!

Classroom community building activities and free ideas and lesson plans to kick off the school year or implement at any time.

Before and after big school schedule transitions (such as breaks), excitement and anxiety are flowing more than usual through schools. There's also usually

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

Ready to go student check-in activities to find out what your students are thinking and feeling. Find the ones that work for you!

Last year, I used the gem that is The Invisible Boy with my second grade classes. This past year, I included it as part of my 4th grade unit with Trudy