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What Is Social-Emotional Learning?

Social-Emotional Learning promotes well-being while using the benefits of that well-being to promote academic and personal growth.

Emotional intelligence is a person’s capacity to manage their feelings in order to appropriately and accurately express them.

Instead of passing out learning style inventories & grouping students accordingly, teachers should aim to facilitate multimodal learning.

Scoring guides center teachers, assess quantity & prioritize efficiency. Rubrics center students, assess quality & prioritize feedback.

Digital Citizenship is the quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.

Reciprocal teaching is a teacher-guided strategy where small groups of students play specific roles in the comprehension of a text.

“Digital literacy is the ability to interpret and design nuanced communication across fluid digital forms.”

Genius hour is an approach to learning where students are guided by their own interests, background knowledge, and curiosity to learn.