We visit The Note-Ables, a Reno-based music therapy group that provides band, music, and dance lessons for the region’s disabled population. We take a look at a collaboration between internationally renowned Columbus visual artist, Ann Hamilton, and SITI, an experimental theater company. We sit down with renowned artist, Xu Bing who outlines his artistic practice and highlights his innovative twist to traditional Chinese calligraphy. And the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston celebrates the tenth anniversary of its waterfront museum.

This lesson plan provides many center activities that are designed around the idea of "families" and apply language and math skills.

This lesson uses Nearpod to examine the positive and negative elements of using social media. The resource uses a video, collaboration and interactive strategies to explore the ways that social media can effect the lives of teenagers.

This simple tale has many moments of strong emotion, beginning with the storm that blows a goose egg out of its nest and down a woodchuck's hole.

This week Holly Todd, the Project Aware Coordinator for Jordan School District, joins Homeroom today to share ideas on social and emotional learning in schools. We discuss the need to help students understand their emotions, how to provide self-care for teachers, and the need to teach kids "soft skills" that can prepare them for real life.

The activities in this lesson will help students understand their surroundings and how they fit into their family, community, and the world.

This lesson is to help students understand what a good friend is and use Google Slides to interpret and show their learning. It incorprates SEL lesson of good friends and google slides learning. 

This week Jared and Dani meet with Karen Sterling, Director of Student Advocacy in Canyons School District, as we continue with our Learn@Home series. We focus this episode on the equity issues brought up through the switch to distance learning. Our topics this week include: how to maintain relationships with parents and students while separated (including old school mail), how is the digital divide being addressed for those families who don't have access to technology, helping students with special needs cope with all the changes to their learning environments/schedules, and the importance to meet the social, emotional, and physical needs of students during times away from in-person education.

Poet. Orator. Actress. Activist. Writer. Singer. Phenomenal Woman. These and many more superlatives are used to describe the incomparable Maya Angelou. Gone too soon in 2014 at the age of 86, Dr. Angelou's legacy will live on through the words she used to eloquently, powerfully, and honestly express emotions, capture experiences, and spread hope.

The activities in this lesson will help students understand their surroundings and how they fit into their family, community, and the world.

PBIS World is a website containing links to hundreds of interventions, supports, resources, and data collection tools, all of which are organized into the tier 1 through 3 framework.

Feelings, written and illustrated by Aliki. Pictures, dialogues, poems, and stories portray various emotions we all feel: jealously, sadness, fear, anger, joy, love, and others.

Four Weber State University students were awarded the 2006 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Paper by the National Council on Family Relations. The student researchers found that individuals who experience more break-ups actually hold healthier beliefs about relationships than those who had experienced fewer break-ups. / Researchers at University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute have discovered a new possibility for treating colon cancer. By genetically disabling the C-Terminal Binding Protein (CTBP), researchers rescued zebrafish from the effects of a mutation that leads to colon polyps.

In this SEL activity, students practice CASEL competency by strengthening their understanding of noticing how their body feels. This lesson can be used to easily infuse social and emotional learning into classroom schedules. This lesson is most appropriate for students in grades K-5. It is estimated this lesson will take about 15 minutes to complete. Students consider why it is useful to express feelings through words.

EarthFix gives us an inside look at the illegal trafficking of bald eagle parts and what is being done to prevent the decline of the majestic bird. Tech entrepreneur and co-founder of the so-called emotional fitness platform Happify, Ofer Leidner discusses how his app could boot your emotional wellbeing. Meet the team behind Wubees, a game that strengthens the social interaction skills of children with Autism. And an international team of researchers is using the web application Morpho Bank to build evolutionary maps for different species.

Jane Clayson Johnson is a national broadcast journalist, widely known for her work at CBS News, ABC News, and NPR. Over more than two decades, she traveled the world covering international stories, presidential campaigns, and interviewing the biggest newsmakers of the day. A best-selling author, Jane’s book, Silent Souls Weeping, is a candid look inside the core-shaking world of depression. Jane shines a light on the desperate, dark, and lonely reality faced by those who struggle with clinical depression. She has drawn upon scores of real-life experiences in an effort to open a dialogue—a new level of honesty, authenticity, and hope for those who suffer.

This multidisciplinary resource develops topics of interest to all those who care about and for individuals with co-occurring intellectual disabilities and mental illness. Each chapter presents current evidence informed practice knowledge. Each topic is also presented with audio enabled text boxes emphasizing 'Key Points for Caregivers.' For those who are interested in background knowledge, we provided the comprehensive literature base. And, for those interested mainly in 'what to do,' we provided text box summaries for reading and listening.