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4 Whole-Child Strategies To Engage Students In Your Classroom

Instead, schools that are working at implementing whole-child strategies should do so within the context of everyday teaching and learning.

Cyberbullying occurs when someone intentionally causes someone else emotional suffering or distress online.

There are elements of play, leveling up, and a sense of mastery or achievement upon accomplishing each challenge.

Instead of asking, ‘How can we slow their loss of academic progress?” we might ask instead, “What do children need over summer break?”

Slowing the ‘summer slide’ through daily reading, writing, and ‘playing’ supports children in developing learning habits that endure.

Yes, taking action will probably make you anxious but child abuse is preventable. Here are some tips and resources for teachers.

Teaching / April 21, 2021 / Whole Child

How To Help Children Cope With Changes Resulting From COVID-19 contributed by Sanam Edwards, Teacher It’s been more than a

Anxiety is feeling like your skin is coursing with electricity, which creates this kind of heat over your skin. It smothers you.

Fundraising for a local cause is an important lesson in community activism and can lead to a sense of purpose for students.

Want to teach students empathy? Start by helping students themselves not, “How am I unique?” but rather “How are we the same?”

Humility, curiosity, creativity, resilience, compassion, and 20 other things that tests can’t measure in students.

Teaching / September 19, 2020 / Whole Child

The potential for new learning spaces and dynamics represents an opportunity for a different kind of resonance–and hopefully, joy.