You may have heard the term SEL before, Social-Emotional Learning. But what is it? Why is it important? For educators and youth workers, it's very important, especially now with COVID-19 and many students feeling alone or isolated. CASEL defines SEL…
We’re living in extraordinary times. Things have changed in a rapid way from the way we work to the way we educate. Like the rest of the world, you likely find yourself in crisis management mode to some degree. You…
Recently, I gathered with an after-school club of seventh and eighth grade students to talk about the stress and anxiety that they face in the course of everyday living... We started with a simple data-gathering exercise. Each student identified three…