Mightier is ideal for students who are between six and 12 years old and it helps them learn to identify why certain behaviors are harmful, how to avoid them, and how to manage their feelings. Children can use Mightier in or out of the classroom and they typically show improvements with emotional behavior and managing reactions within the first three
A multi-tiered system of support is an instructional framework with three different tiers. Students receive instruction and support on a much more general scale in the first tier and then it increases in personalization as needed. Simultaneously, educators use the data and assessments to make informed decisions about what each student needs at each phase.
MakerEd tools allow students to connect their heads to their hearts using their hands. And, up until a year ago, so much good was being done in the classroom to advance social and emotional stability in students by using technology in creative ways. Now, however, there are all new reasons to focus on SEL in remote learning.
We’ve talked an awful lot about SEL in remote learning, focusing mostly on checking in on our students and teachers. One other important component to social-emotional learning, however, now involves creating the right kinds of environments for children to reconnect with some of the things that have been missing for them all throughout the pandemic.
Some schools will not be opening on the first day of classes and, in other districts, it’s yet to be decided what the approach will be. Throw in some political pressure and we’ve got a pretty volatile, potentially dangerous, and likely fluid situation for the rest of the summer and the first few weeks of the year.
