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Excited and Nervous: How to Help Children Navigate Mixed Feelings About Returning to School
By Lory Britain, Ph.D., author of I’m Happy-Sad Today: Making Sense of Mixed-Together Feelings Your child laughs excitedly as she packs pencils and pens in her backpack for the first day of in-person school. You watch with both relief and … Continue reading
Posted in Parenting, Teaching
Tagged back to school, elementary school, emotions and behavior, feelings, Free Spirit author, processing emotions, SEL
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5 Ways to Incorporate Social Emotional Learning into Your Curriculum This Fall
By Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed., author of the Learning About Me & You, Learning to Get Along®, and Being the Best Me!® series Many routines have been affected this past year due to precautions surrounding the global pandemic. These changes … Continue reading
3 Big Things Families Can Do to Prepare for the School Year
Part of our Counselor’s Corner series. Click to read other posts in the Counselor’s Corner. Unless you have been on a remote island all summer, you’ve likely been bombarded recently with back-to-school advertisements and school supplies in stores. Besides purchasing … Continue reading
Posted in Counselor's Corner, Parenting
Tagged back to school, elementary school, high school, junior high, middle school, summer break, summertime
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Summer Reading Lists: Bore, Chore, or Score?
By Eric Braun Whether the kids in your life love to read, hate to read, or, most likely, are somewhere in the middle, the answer to the titular question is largely up to us—the grown-ups, the makers and enforcers of … Continue reading
Kids’ Goal-Setting: SMART Goals
Part of our Counselor’s Corner series. Click to read other posts in the Counselor’s Corner. As educators we are called upon at the beginning of each school year to set goals for ourselves. Throughout the year, we reflect and change … Continue reading