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How One District Bridged the Digital Divide
10/06/2021
Topics: social-emotional learning
Prior to March 2020, we knew we had a digital divide in Highline Public Schools that prevented too many of our students from accessing their learning from home. Once the decision was made to close schools, we…
Support Student Well-Being and SEL in 4 Key Areas of Practice
06/30/2021
Topics: social-emotional learning
Most educators know that student well-being is important, but how can teachers ensure they are fostering a comfortable, healthy and happy learning environment that supports well-being?
Tara…
Meeting students' social-emotional needs during a COVID-19 lockdown
04/07/2020
Topics: Online learning, social-emotional learning
High school junior Sadie Bograd doesn’t mind having extra leisure time to catch up on her novel reading or binge-watch the latest season of The Good Place. But there are moments when the unstructured…
Augmented reality can help autistic students with social-emotional learning
11/04/2019
Topics: Augmented reality, social-emotional learning, special needs
As a classroom teacher, Jullia Suhyoung Lim encountered many children like her childhood friend Eddie, a passionate, playful child. Adults called him “different”; Lim later realized he was probably on the…
7 tips for helping students develop emotional intelligence
02/18/2020
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital Citizenship, social-emotional learning
Part of growing up is developing empathy, the ability to understand the feelings of others. It starts in kindergarten when we learn to share the crayons. As we get older, we learn to include others on the playground to avoid hurt feelings and begin to relate to those who are different than we…