Social Emotional Learning for Teachers

Explore active listening as a foundational social-emotional skill through an experiential journey that engages students, with paraphrasing and agreeing and disagreeing, plus a six-lesson blueprint, narrated videos, FAQs, and assessments.

Explore who we are through interactive activities that build connection, storytelling, and reflection, including birth order prompts, a human treasure hunt, gallery walks, and body-outline sharing.

Practice active listening through open ended questions, role plays, and the walk and talk activity to develop follow up questions and deeper conversations.

Develop active listening through practicing listening responses in pairs and groups, exploring echoing, feedback, shared experiences, agreement, and clarifying questions to master the art of response.

This lesson teaches paraphrasing as a core communication skill through back-to-back drawing and structured activities that practice listening, questioning, and verifying understanding.

Paraphrase with tone through active listening, nonverbal cues, and guided practice. Use theater-based activities and structured exercises to improve tone awareness and communicative understanding.

Develop listening and disagreement skills by paraphrasing what you hear before sharing your opinion, using a non-confrontational tone to understand and engage with differing viewpoints.

Learn the foundations of active listening through engaging activities like concentric circles, paraphrasing, and respectful disagreement, while practicing sounds, looks, and feels of good listening.

Develop active listening to resolve conflicts and improve communication by paraphrasing what others say, listening to their experience, and applying these mediation skills in professional relationships.

Explore strategies to cultivate respect in the classroom through group discussions and collaborative projects, building empathy, inclusion, and a supportive community, with narrated videos, PDFs, and assessments.

This lesson explores respect in the classroom by defining it collaboratively, examining quotes, and guiding groups through an untangle circle activity, with reflection on acts of respect.

Explore the two golden rules of respect—the golden rule and treating others as they want to be treated—through discussion and a creator-sculptor-clay activity.

Explores inclusion through opening questions, commonalities and differences, and a collaborative jigsaw puzzle, highlighting respect as the foundation for valuing differences and promoting inclusive class dynamics.

Lead students through a kindness experiment using a no-talk, broken-squares puzzle that requires nonverbal cooperation, then explore the science of kindness and plan acts of kindness with a cost-benefit focus.

Explore strategies to command respect by outlining respectful actions, communicating expectations, and enforcing consequences while showing genuine care for students, and practice boundary-setting in teacher-student and student-student interactions.

Explore a practical emotional literacy curriculum that boosts emotional awareness, regulates feelings, supports decision making, conflict resolution, and wellness, with accessible pdfs, narrated videos, faqs, and assessments for teachers.

Develop emotional literacy by guiding students to notice and label their feelings, identify emotions in others, and improve dialogue through feelings games and scenarios.

Explore emotional literacy through emotional stacking, categorizing feelings by intensity, and expressing them in art and discussion to connect with met and unmet needs.

Develop emotional literacy in lesson 19 of the feelings practice by guiding students through group feelings search, the follow-the-leader with emotion, and a feelings-in-a-bag activity to deepen empathy.

Explore emotional literacy through a theatre-based feelings roller coaster, noticing how emotions change, naming numbness, and guiding students as feelings detectives in group scenarios.

Explore emotional literacy by linking feelings to action, weighing when feelings guide behavior, and naming triggers, with practical activities like scenario discussions, trigger posters, and a gallery walk.

Explore precision with feelings, thoughts, and judgments through nonviolent communication, separating feelings from thoughts and identifying hidden judgments. Practice expressing feelings with observations to improve dialogue and empathy in classrooms.

Develop emotional literacy to build empathy and understanding in students, and leverage it for effective communication, conflict resolution, and meaningful engagement with parents and caregivers outside the classroom.

Introduce a groundbreaking empathy curriculum for teachers that teaches empathy through theater, games, roleplay, and dialogue, grounded in compassionate communication and value-based empathy to help students form genuine connections.

Explore four types of empathy, distinguish it from pity, and practice guessing emotions with a feelings list to foster classroom connection.

Practice tonal empathy by guiding students to express feelings with an expressive tone and have peers mirror it in circle activities to build empathy.

Explore universal needs and needs empathy within social emotional learning by engaging in activities that identify universal needs, apply nonviolent communication (NVC), and practice compassionate understanding with peers.

Explore empathy by linking feelings to met and unmet needs, and translate judgments into needs to enhance communication and practice empathy.

Engage students in empathy through similes, postcard check-ins, and a hands-on toothpick challenge that links feelings, needs, and weather or sports metaphors to promote understanding.

Learn how self-empathy anchors social emotional learning, starting with identifying personal feelings and two minutes of empathy practice, then guiding students to listen and practice empathy regularly.

Develop students' skills in effective communication through humorous theatre games, paraphrasing, slowing down speech, de-escalation for conflict resolution, and expressing emotions with I statements, while understanding intentions.

Explore effective and ineffective communication through interactive activities like quick look, shared definitions, and the lost at sea game, developing conflict resolution skills and awareness of intention.

This lesson demonstrates paraphrase requests as a communication tool for teachers, using a communication breakdown and dialogue practice to ensure students understand what is said with a non-domineering, clarifying approach.

Explore passive, assertive, and aggressive communication styles through a guided assessment and the resting rulers game, discussing when each style fits and how to moderate aggression.

Learn to de-escalate conflicts by using observational language instead of judgments, and translate judgments into observational language. Compare requests and demands, and practice framing effective, specific, positive requests.

Explore the I statement, a four-part tool—say how you feel, describe the observed behavior with observational language, explain why it affected you, and request what you want—through practice and role-play.

Explore how intention shapes communication, spotting when we seek to be right, and practice asking before, during, and from others to foster collaborative dialogue.

Effective communication underpins conflict resolution and a respectful, inclusive school culture by using I statements and observational language to de-escalate conflicts within the curriculum, including digital communication and student-led insights.

Engage in a five-lesson social emotional curriculum on integrity that uses discussion, role play, and engaging games to examine motivations, consequences, and the personal and collective responsibilities of choices.

Explore integrity and morality by examining right and wrong, values, honesty, and how choices affect self and community through discussion and group integrity scenarios.

Explore how rules shape behavior through discussions, a with or without rules game, a rock-paper-scissors variation, and a coin-flip activity, highlighting integrity, rule adherence, and handling unjust rules.

Explore integrity by practicing keeping your word through a trust walk and learn a three-part apology to acknowledge impact, commit to change, and restore trust.

Distinguish good and bad excuses, and practice creative solutions guided by integrity. Reflect on responsibility, choices, and the power to act, applying these ideas to classroom scenarios.

Explore the three components of integrity—morality, keeping your word, and group integrity—and learn strategies to build trust, collaborative partnerships with families, and responsible behavior in school.

Explore mindfulness practices and breathing techniques to empower students to observe their minds, make conscious choices, and shift perspectives, with a four-lesson pdf, narrated videos, and assessments for teachers.

Learn practical mindfulness through breathing techniques, sensory awareness, and self-talk to promote self-connection, peace of mind, focus, and empowered perceptions for students.

Engage in sensory mindfulness by guiding students through five senses exercises to notice sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch, and practice present-moment focus during a mindful rice-and-beans activity.

Guide students through mindfulness by noticing thinking without judgment and sharing thoughts in pairs or groups. Connect self-talk to problem solving with think-aloud activities and reflection to foster growth mindset.

Explore how focus and mindfulness help students notice more and reach goals through two circles and two wolves stories, with group ten gram shaped handouts and reflection on thoughts.

Foster student self-awareness and attention control through a mindful curriculum that uses breathing techniques like five-finger breath to reduce stress and support daily classroom transitions.

Empower students with the social emotional goal setting skill to envision life goals, map steps, and rely on collective support and accountability to transform classrooms.

Explore goal setting with mind maps and smart goals to turn dreams into specific, measurable, attainable actions for students, boosting inner and outer motivation through brainstorming and small-step planning.

Break goals into smaller steps with a step-by-step map, identifying actions, needed skills, supports, and timeframes, then practice, receive constructive feedback, and reflect through a gallery walk and coaching.

Practice goal setting by discussing obstacles and generating creative solutions through collaborative activities like traffic jam and blanket flip to build community.

Boost motivation by exploring inspiration and setting up your environment for success, reduce distractions, and plan mini celebrations, then apply these ideas in feather-balancing practice.

Educators support students in setting meaningful and attainable goals aligned with academic, personal, and social aspirations by modeling growth, sharing struggles, enabling accountability, and inviting parent and family involvement.

Explore resilience as a collaborative, collective practice that helps students bounce back from adversity, embracing a growth mindset to see challenges as opportunities for learning and development.

Explore resilience, perseverance, and grit through a 'maze' activity that uses a 4x4 grid to test pattern-based walking, celebrate practice, and learn from mistakes as a life metaphor.

Explore growth mindset versus fixed mindset, guided by Karen Dweck, with reflections on talent versus effort, video insights, and classroom activities like safe bean bag toss to practice resilience.

Explore how beliefs shape resilience through water bottle challenges and difficult puzzles, and reflect on what is possible. Reevaluate impossible tasks and cultivate hope through belief.

Explore resilience through deliberate practice with group number search and river crossing activities, learning how repetition, teamwork, and reflection deepen skill and thinking.

Explore how resilience fits within a social emotional learning framework by promoting emotional regulation, self-management, growth mindset, empathy, and active listening within a supportive school community.