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Social and Emotional Learning

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Find out how you can develop or support learning that teaches collaboration, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.

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Inspiring Young Leaders: Girls Take the Challenge
Suzie BossSeptember 30, 2008
Tags , All Grades, California

Before she attended a summer leadership event sponsored by Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., Allie, a sixteen-year-old from Pasadena, California, says she had heard both of these words: social and entrepreneur. "But," she adds, "I had never put them together before." Now, after taking part in the Girl Scouts Challenge and Change program, she feels inspired to become a social entrepreneur herself.

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Global Connections: Storytelling Builds Bridges Between Cultures
Suzie BossAugust 13, 2008
Tags , Technology Integration, All Grades

I first met Greg Tuke a decade ago when he was running a program called Powerful Schools. The nonprofit organization was working to strengthen schools serving some of the lowest-income and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Seattle.

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Telling Our Stories: Students Recount Personal Tales
Stephen HurleyAugust 4, 2008
Tags Integrated Studies, Project-Based Learning, , Teacher Development, High (9-12), California

The theme for this first year of our arts@newman program could best be expressed with the statement "We live storied lives." Throughout the year, we have been exploring how the arts can help us both understand our stories more deeply and express those stories to others.

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Global Learning: Connecting the World with ePals
Suzie BossJuly 21, 2008
Tags Primary (K-2), , Technology Integration, All Grades

When teachers talk about how much they and their students gain by connecting with learners in other parts of the world, their enthusiasm is downright contagious. Yet for all the promise of learning across distances, these wonderful flat-world projects still seem to be the exception rather than the norm.

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Becoming Citizens: A Stint in Student Government Can Shape One's Future
Suzie BossJuly 2, 2008
Tags , Teacher Development, All Grades, Oregon

When Ashraf Ghani talks about world events, his words carry the weight of experience: After twenty-three years of exile from his native Afghanistan, he returned after the fall of the Taliban to serve as finance minister for the transitional government. A veteran of the World Bank and recently on the short list of finalists to head the United Nations, he continues working to rebuild societies torn asunder.

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Cinema vs. Cyberbullies: Using Filmmaking to Fight Online Harassment
Suzie BossJune 17, 2008
Tags Bullying, , Technology Integration, Middle (6-8), California

When Debbie Heimowitz talks about cyberbullying at school assemblies or presents training events for teachers, she speaks with authority. She knows the statistics. She understands the potential for real harm if bullies use the anonymity of technology to gang up on their victims.

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Building a Legacy: Innovations Shouldn't Necessarily Become Institutions
Jim MoultonJune 15, 2008
Tags , Teacher Development, All Grades, Maine

I spent the weekend extending a stone wall I have been working on over the years. Now, before you get too impressed, please understand that my effort this weekend was only about 8 feet long and about 2 feet or so from the ground to the capstones.

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Courtly Courage: Applying Athletic Tenacity to Academic Efforts
Ben JohnsonJune 10, 2008
Tags , All Grades

My family and I were witnesses to a magnificent display of courage and fortitude last year as our Natalia Independent School District girls' and boys' basketball teams faced the teams from the nearby Lutheran school.

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On Location at ASCD: SEL Is Alive and Well
Maurice EliasMarch 21, 2008
Tags , Teacher Development, All Grades, New Jersey

I am writing this at the end of the annual conference of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), in New Orleans, where 10,000 attendees chose from over 400 sessions. But the big news, as far as I am concerned, is that social and emotional learning (SEL) is alive and well, represented by presentations from all over the United States and internationally.

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Friendly Computers: Technology Helps People Help People
Jim MoultonMarch 17, 2008
Tags , Teacher Development, All Grades

I met an interesting guidance counselor in a rural K-8 school the other day. I was at the school to advocate for the effective use of technology to support teaching and learning across the curriculum, and I was sharing with her my feeling that guidance folks need to be connected to the technology-driven realities of the kids in their schools.

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