Mindfulness in the classroom is quick and easy to implement, and has proven benefits including boosted working memory and reduced stress. At Summit Prep, many teachers incorporate mindfulness into their classes.

5 Minutes of Mindfulness

Summit Prep in Redwood City, California, uses a variety of activities in the weekly, 90-minute Habits, Community, and Culture (HCC) class, where students learn Habits of Success and develop social and emotional learning (SEL) skills.

Laying the Foundation for Emotional Intelligence 

Teach your students the recipe for success: taking risks, making mistakes, and integrating critical feedback.

Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts

Using the oracy framework -- building physical, cognitive, linguistic, and emotional speaking skills -- students learn to speak on any topic and to any audience.

Public Speaking: Oracy Skills for the Real World

Learn how School 21 explores topics like culture, diversity, and responsibility using drama techniques, grounding texts, and controversial statements.

Wellbeing: Developing Empathy, Emotional Awareness, and Agency

School 21 develops confident students who can articulate their thoughts and learning with strategies like discussion guidelines and roles and structured talk tasks.

Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk

Nashville Big Picture High School shares many ways to build intentional relationships with students -- strategies that can work at schools of any size.

Advisory: 22 Ways to Build Relationships for Educational Success

At University Park Campus School, students learn through group work that they have something to contribute.

Teaching Group Work: Building Student Collaboration and Agency 

Students at Urban Prep Charter Academies are celebrated, supported, and empowered through their daily community assembly.

Daily Assemblies: Deepening Relationships Through Ritual and Recognition 

"Going to Pride every day does something for me that no academic class can do. It's like a second home." – Deveon, a 12th-grade Urban Prep, Englewood Campus student.

Pride Advisory Classes: Social and Emotional Support for Every Student

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At Charles R. Drew Charter School, the Literacy Center and Math Lab provide fun, engaging, and enriching interventions to help support students most in need.

Response to Intervention: Safe Spaces for Math and Literacy

Meyer Elementary School's Response to Intervention practice has contributed to their ranking in the top five percent of all Michigan schools.

Response to Intervention: Collaborating to Target Instruction

Through a mosaic of schoolwide strategies and practices focused on social-emotional learning, Symonds Elementary provides students with a safe, supportive space and ensures that students are ready and available for deeper learning.

Social and Emotional Learning: A Schoolwide Approach

At Symonds Elementary, teachers use morning meetings to develop valuable social-emotional skills, create a culture of respect and trust, and prepare students to learn.

Morning Meetings: Creating a Safe Space for Learning 

In an ungraded weekly seminar throughout their freshman year, incoming students at High Tech High School learn about each other, themselves, and their academic community.

Freshman Orientation: A Year of Gentle Transition

By sending home detailed data reports that focus on a specific skill, Humboldt opens a two-way line of communication with parents about their child's learning.

Sharing Data to Create Stronger Parent Partnerships

Montpelier High School's service learning program integrates across the curriculum, utilizing a school greenhouse and gardens to provide food for the school district's lunch program.

Service Learning: Real-Life Applications for Learning

P.K. Yonge provides a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) that is tailored not only to fit the increased academic demands but the unique social and emotional challenges of secondary students.

Reaching All High School Students: A Multi-Tiered Approach

AT P.K. Yonge, a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is used to meet every students academic and behavioral needs.

Supporting Behavioral Needs: A Multi-Tiered Approach

When students created a toolkit to help their peers break the system of bullying, their passion drove effective collaboration on a thoughtful, high-quality product.

Students Break the System of Bullying in English Class

At Glenview Elementary School, dialogue circles are part of a program aimed at building collaboration, respect, and positive behavior among students.

Using Dialogue Circles to Support Classroom Management

Dialogue circles, arts programming, and team-building activities support academic achievement and a strong school community at Glenview Elementary.

Strengthening School Community Brings Gains in Academic Achievement

Setting long-term goals is a key part of learning to be gritty. Teacher Beth Perkins helps her fifth graders evaluate their goals to understand the elements that make up the best ones.

Grit Curriculum Lesson_ Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals

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Daniel Goleman on the Importance of Cultivating Focus

Five Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning

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