Strategies for ensuring that students in every grade feel like they're part of the classroom community.

Teachers have taken many steps to address the social and emotional needs of their students. SEL skills, however, are often taught in a way that’s isolated from content-area instruction. Students may begin their day, for example, with a morning meeting or advisory class, or they may participate in a mindful moment.

How can schools integrate social and emotional practices into academic instruction where they can have the greatest impact on learning? Here are three simple strategies for making SEL a part of the curriculum.

High school students benefit from meaningful relationships with adults at school, and teachers can foster those ties in little ways every day.

Too often math students lean on teachers to think for them, but there are some simple ways to guide them to think for themselves.

Teachers can create positive learning experiences for students that combine assessment with agency, opportunity, and community building.

Teachers can take a step back and create lessons that put student explorations at the center of learning.

Teachers at this Pennsylvania school have adapted the Modern Classrooms model to work with elementary grades, by designing color-coded pictorial unit “road maps,” creating teacher-made videos with prompts for students to pause and practice new skills, and offering must-do, should-do, and aspire-to-do lessons within each unit.

Slidedeck created by Drew Schantz, EdElements, for presentation at The 2023 Magellan Summit.

Resource of the importance and examples of how to set SMART goals with students from Edutopia.