Elementary Gratitude Activity: Foster a Sense of Gratitude With Your Students
Take a moment in our days to explain and teach gratitude to students. This activity allows us to gain more insight into what brings them joy, and hav…
Tag: Student Experience
Positive Self-Talk Worksheet: Teach Your Students Coping Skills
This lesson and positive self talk worksheet will help your students identify examples of positive self-talk. This is also a great activity to uncover…
3 Big Plays: Highlight Your Vision for Readiness in Your School Culture
Purposeful Learning focuses on the alignment between learning approaches and a holistic, shared, vision for readiness. It includes universal approache…
Student Leadership Skills: Play “This is Me” Leadership Game With Your Students
Learning leadership skills from a young age can provide kids with an excellent head start in life. Even if they have personalities that are not automa…
Differentiated Reading Instruction: A Better Practice for Ensuring Student Literacy
Create intentionally unequal reading Instruction to improve grade level proficiency for every student by implementing differentiated reading instructi…
Assess the Four Keys in Action: Find Challenges and Opportunities in the Classroom Using Think, Know, Act, and Go
Observe classrooms to find examples of Think, Know, Act and Go and use your observations to reflect on challenges and opportunities to student readine…
Conduct a Student Experience Story Guide With Your Students: Learn What Students Want from Their School Experience
The below activity provides a space for students to share their stories without interruption and preconceived notions of what teachers are "looking fo…
Conduct Design Camp: Provide a Platform for Student Involvement with School Decisions
The Design Camp project is an effort to look more deeply at the day-to-day experiences of students.
Conduct Empathy Interviews: Elevating Student Voices, So You Can Understand and Support Them
Empathy Interviews provide an opportunity to really understand a student, or group of students, by diving deeper than the surface-level question, "How…
Incorporate SEL in the Classroom: Engaging Strategies for Brain Breaks and Transitions
Educators and OST providers understand and believe in the power of SEL, but often seek clarity about how to demonstrate and observe SEL in action.
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