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The core social-emotional skills: the CASEL 5, self-regulation, self-awareness, empathy, and relationships.

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The CASEL 5
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Social and emotional skills are learnable, and they support both wellbeing and academic learning.

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Self-Regulation
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students cannot learn well when they are flooded with emotion, and self-regulation, the ability to notice and manage feelings and impulses, is a teachable skill.

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Growth Mindset
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Growth mindset, the belief that ability can grow with effort and good strategies, can support learning, but it has been widely oversimplified into effort-praise and posters.

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Social Awareness & Empathy
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Understanding others' perspectives and feelings, and caring about them, is a skill that can be taught, and it underpins everything from classroom harmony to collaboration to citizenship.

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Relationship Skills & Conflict Resolution
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students who can communicate, cooperate, and work through conflict have a skill that serves them for life, and it keeps the classroom running.

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Responsible Decision-Making
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Making good choices, weighing options, considering consequences and others, acting ethically, is a skill students build, not something they simply have or lack.

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Emotional Intelligence for Teachers
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

A teacher's own emotional awareness and regulation shape the classroom every day.

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Self-Awareness
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students who can recognize their own emotions, strengths, and values, self-awareness, are better able to manage themselves, relate to others, and learn.

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Character Education
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Beyond skills and knowledge, schools have always helped shape character, honesty, responsibility, perseverance, respect, kindness.

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Teaching Social Skills
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Social skills, joining a group, reading social cues, resolving disagreements, come naturally to some students and not at all to others.

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Teacher Expectations & Beliefs
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

What we believe about a student has a way of coming true.

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Help-Seeking
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Many students who are struggling suffer in silence, too proud, embarrassed, or unsure how to ask for help.

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Assertiveness & Boundaries
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Between being a pushover and being aggressive lies assertiveness, the ability to express your needs, opinions, and limits honestly and respectfully.

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Healthy Relationships
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students are navigating friendships and relationships constantly, but few are ever taught what makes a relationship healthy, or how to recognize when one is not.

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Reshaping Self-Talk
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

The voice inside a student's head, I'm stupid, I can't do this, everyone's better than me, shapes how they feel and what they attempt.

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