Social-Emotional Learning

female student upset after receiving a text message from a bully

Governments, schools and parents need to widen their focus from identifying and re-educating bullies to teaching young people how to better cope with the emotional damage bullying does, a leading educator says. According to Michael Bernard, governments, including education departments, have a critical role in doing all they can to minimise bullying in schools but aren’t investing in programs to develop students’ intrinsic capacity to cope.

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10 Steps for Implementing SEL at Secondary School

Set the stage for social-emotional learning. For secondary students to be motivated to engage in social and emotional learning (SEL), the stage must be set before teaching and learning begins. From your side of the coin Four preconditions should be in place: The principal articulates to teachers, parents, and students how the school’s mission is

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The Brain Learns Better when the Mind is Right blog article

Since the brain is central to all learning, it makes sense to know how students’ brains learn best. In You Can Do It! Education, we support students’ mental development through brain-based, social-emotional learning activities. This leads to better engagement, effective learning, improved memory and application. Helping students, calm their amygdala and develop various prefrontal cortex

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Improving Social and Emotional Learning at your School

Evidence for Learning* recently produced a guidance report containing valuable recommendations for improving student social and emotional learning, Improving social and emotional learning in primary school. Below is how YOU CAN DO IT! EDUCATION helps schools improve student social-emotional learning by meeting these recommendations. COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING Programs explicitly teach social-emotional skills (resilience, confidence, persistence,

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