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Bullying Hurts: Teaching Kindness Through Read Alouds and Guided Conversations
We believe focused read aloud experiences with carefully selected children’s literature followed by guided conversations is one way you can create a climate in your classroom, school, or district where bullying is not an accepted or rewarded...
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Calm, Alert, and Learning / Ready to Learn
Recent research tells us that one of the keys to student success is self-regulation – the ability to monitor and modify emotions, to focus or shift attention, to control impulses, to tolerate frustration or delay gratification. But can a...
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Calm, Alert, and Learning / Ready to Learn Parent Booklet (single copy)
The parent booklet is based on the work of Dr. Stuart Shanker and his book for teachers, Calm, Alert, and Learning: Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation. Many parents naturally use self-regulation techniques with their...
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Classroom Management Matters: The Social--Emotional Learning Approach Children Deserve
By Gianna Cassetta, Brook Sawyer Foreword by Carmen Farina "We can do better, but expectation alone is not enough. We need answers and examples like the ones Gianna and Brook provide with great insight from research and practice and great...
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Confronting Bullying : Literacy as a Tool for Character Education
Bullying is a major problem in American schools, and there is no simple solution. Every day, 160,000 children across America stay home from school for fear of being bullied. Some 30 percent of all students are involved in the bullying cycle in the role...
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Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments
If there's one thing teachers should agree on, it's that creating a culture and climate conducive to fostering SEL is something we should all strive toward as educators. How can this resource help? Based on author Dr. Amy Cranston's experiences with...
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Difference Is Not Deficit
In this urgent and inspiring call to action, Dr. Bibi Pirayesh invites educators to radically reimagine how we support neurodiverse students—not as problems to solve, but as people with insight, strength, and agency. Rooted in principles of social...
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Effective Strategies for Integrating Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom
Learn how to embed social-emotional learning (SEL) into everyday instruction with useful strategies. This effective teacher resource, authored by SEL expert Erick Herrmann, dives into each of CASEL's core competencies (self-awareness,...
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Embarrassment: And the Emotional Underlife of Learning
"Why has no one written about this subject before? Every teacher should read this book."--Michael G. Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain Embarrassment. None of us escape it. Especially as kids, in school. How might our fear of failure,...
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Learning from Loss: A Trauma Informed Approach to Supporting Grieving Students
Grief and grieving apply to anyone experiencing loss, even if that loss is not tied to a death. Though it may feel difficult to address the topics of grief and loss, as we return to school after an unprecedented year, it’s no longer a question of...
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No More Teaching Without Positive Relationships
Teachers know the importance of strong relationships with their students, but sometimes connecting with them feels challenging. No More Teaching Without Positive Relationships reviews the teacher-student relationship research and provides...