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Cultivating Compassionate Citizens in the Digital Age

Cultivating Compassionate Citizens in the Digital Age

In this edWebinar, Brian Burkhard, lead researcher at EVERFI, will explore the latest research related to mental health and technology to identify ways to promote positive development and reduce negative outcomes for youth living in an increasingly connected world.

How Mindfulness Fits into Education in the Pandemic Era

How Mindfulness Fits into Education in the Pandemic Era

Learn strategies for incorporating mindfulness into a daily self-care routine, explore mindful inquiry in our efforts to make sure all of our students have equitable access to education, and engage with simple mindfulness practices that can be woven into synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities for students.

3 Big Ideas for Implementing Effective Social and Emotional Learning Strategies

Three Big Ideas for Implementing Effective SEL Strategies

Dr. Stephanie Jones emphasizes that when implementing effective social and emotional learning (SEL) strategies, educators, practitioners, and administrators need to think about the what, the why, and the how of the essential skills of SEL. In a recent edWebinar, Jones, Director of the Ecological Approaches to Social-Emotional Learning (EASEL) Lab, explained that there are six SEL domains studied and documented by researchers. The first three domains are skills and competencies: cognitive, emotional, and social, and the next three are belief ecologies: attitudes, habits of mind, and ways of thinking about the world. One way to think about how these two sets go together is that on the one hand are things that you learn and know how to do, and on the other is a set of internal guideposts that tell you to use those skills when it’s essential and when it matters.