9 Activities to Promote Kindness in the Classroom
After an isolating year, there is an even greater need for us to reconnect this spring. Here are 9 kindness classroom activities that can help.
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FOR EDUCATORS
8 Strategies to Support Positive Core Beliefs in the Classroom
How can we support our students in developing adaptive core beliefs? This article explores the concept of core beliefs and offers activities to try with infants, preschoolers, and elementary school students.
Perfectionism and Self-Acceptance in the Classroom
Adults and children alike can experience an internal battle with our inner critic. Sometimes our inner critics can get very loud, leading to feelings of anxiety, guilt or shame. Most of us don’t love feeling guilt or shame so we...
Teaching Kindness in the Classroom
How can we teach children kindness? It’s a big question about an important, but a sometimes elusive, idea. If you’re curious about teaching students kindness, read on for some easy ways of making kindness a part of the daily classroom...
10 Ways to Promote Resilience in Students
Life can be amazing and life can be tough and these can both be true at the same time. What helps us get through the tough part is resilience. We explore 10 different ways educators can help students build resilience and promote...
Coping with Winter Blues in the Classroom
Teachers, we have made it to the middle of the winter. The holiday and new year excitement is wearing off and we are all realizing that we are a long...way… from… summer. It’s typical for students, (and teachers) to get...
A Strengths-Based Approach to Imperfect Classroom Moments
Being a teacher is no easy feat. There are challenging and imperfect moments daily. The pressures teachers are under to support each student and meet educational goals, can cause stress, and this stress can cause us to remain in a...
The Feels & The Importance of Emotional Regulation
What if we reframed our children’s negative emotional expression as the healthy process of releasing built-up stress they carry throughout the course of a busy day? We all need to unburden our hearts by expressing our feelings. When children feel...
