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A Parent's Guide: Meditate With Toddlers And Teens To Improve Emotional Intelligence And Resilience

Even though today’s kids exhibit elevated levels of restlessness, stress, and anxiety, only 1.6% of children in the U.S. meditate. Here are the benefits of meditation on the developing brain and how parents can practice meditation with kids at every age. 

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Three Ways To Love A Bully

What would happen if we taught our children to empathize with the "bully"? Here are three ways to love the person who is bullying. 

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What Teachers Are Thinking and Feeling About Returning To School This Year

With fall approaching, parents and educators are looking to the next school year and wondering what’s best for everyone involved.

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Children Need Less Academics and More Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom

Starting school or starting a new school year can be stressful at the best of times, let alone during a global pandemic.

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Video Released of Six-Year-Old Girl Being Arrested

  Warning: the content of this video is potentially upsetting. We share it with the intent to empower determination as we advocate for change, protecting the most vulnerable in our society from injustice. The funneling of students out of school and into the streets and the juvenile correction system perpetuates...

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6 Tips for Using Yoga to Support Social-Emotional Inclusion

Sierra has struggled to cultivate language for how her disability impacts her own social-emotional development and how it impacts her experiences at school. This struggle has been a barrier to Sierra’s ability to create positive relationships with her classmates.  

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Teaching Academics and Social-Emotional Skills in the Montessori Classroom

Emily Canibano, a Montessori teacher with a classroom of 16 students ranging in age from 1.2 to 5.5 years, was looking for a way to teach social-emotional skills in her classroom, both in feeling emotions and in the safe expression of them.

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Morning Meetings and Connecting a Classroom

A the school counselor shares how her school transformed its classroom culture by using SnuggleBuddies plush toys to teach students about their emotions. 

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Teaching The Whole Learner: School Spotlight on Bloom360

Bloom360 Learning Community, a nonprofit school in southeastern Wisconsin for Learners ages 5 to 21 with neurodiverse needs, based their entire 2019/20 school year curriculum themes around the PeaceMakers themes of Power, Joy, Balance, Love, Peace, Intuition, and Forgiveness, and the outcomes are inspiring.

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Helping Traumatized Children Learn – Trauma-Informed Schools Act of 2019

The Trauma-Informed Schools Act of 2019 helps to define trauma-informed practices within schools with goals to decrease school-to-prison pipeline and create a safe learning environment.

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The Day My Son Told Me "Mad is Bad"

When our children believe that unpleasant emotions are "bad", they become unsafe to feel those emotions. However all emotions are sacred and useful. Here's why. Read more.

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School to Prison Pipeline: New Bill to Diminish Willful Defiance Suspensions

With efforts to keep children in school and out of the school-to-prison pipeline, teachers and administrators within California school districts will no longer be able to suspend elementary and middle school students for willful defiance, as part of a Senate Bill signed by Gov. Newsom.

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