Questions to ask your students in the first week: 1. What helps you feel welcomed? 2. How do you like to be greeted? 3. What strengths do you bring to classrooms? The school? 4. What do you like most about school so far? More questions at edut.to/2AApcbM

"Teachers are telling me that they themselves are finding a lot of calmness, a lot of improvement in their behavior, because they also sit into mindfulness with their students." In the news: NPR npr.org/2018/07/28/632…

Research indicates that light, space, and room layout impact physical and physiological well-being. Here are 4 tips to decrease classroom clutter. edut.to/2OtpT9Z

Classrooms that use circles, U-shaped seating, or other arrangements to support group work and peer-to-peer collaboration are becoming more common. The science says that’s right on. x.com/edutopia/statu…

"Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be you." —Marian Wright Edelman

Community building in the classroom starts on day one. Try these strategies to begin forging strong relationships with students. edut.to/2KRlkU1

Keeping the Focus on the Positive: Start with the students and their strengths, not the standards, and see how a positive focus improves student work. edut.to/2KQp0oF

More talking in class, please! Strategies for facilitating small group and whole class conversations with students in grades 3 to 12. edut.to/2B7XvaD

School leaders: Kick the school year off right! 10 quick and simple celebrations that will build morale and energy at your school. edut.to/2MTwmtK

Build social and emotional skills into any class with these 13 opening, group sharing, and closing activities. edut.to/2nMhmmh #SEL

A study of UK classrooms finds evidence that a well-designed physical learning space can boost students’ academic performance in reading, writing, and math by 16%. edut.to/2Pgba1y

Pairing older elementary students with younger ones for community reading time has benefits for both. The power of reading buddies: edut.to/2M1gu71

Make sure that you call home to report positive student behavior in September. It will go a long way in building a trusting relationship for when issues pop up later in the year. #SEL #relationshipsmatter #ConnectingSchoolandHome

Why ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ Is So Important for Kids Right Now ym.care/3z9 via Yale School of Medicine

Super excited to begin this work at NSES! Thank you @marcbrackett and RIHealthySchoolsCoa for organizing the webinar!

Jigsaw was in full effect in Amy Kraus’s third grade classroom today! Check out these students working in their expert groups! Great work!📝#HighImpactTeachingStrategies

⁦⁦What a wonderful way to support our North Smithfield students! ⁦North Smithfield Elementary School⁩ valleybreeze.com/news/childrens…

These 6 questions can and will serve as transformational forces when answered in specific ways by collaborative teams. Read more in this blog by Jan K. Hoegh. bit.ly/3wrYMV8

We can’t look at mental well-being as an add-on. We need to make it the foundation of pandemic support & recovery. This is our time to support and invest in students’ mental and emotional health.

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