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How to Help Your Child Deal With Online Harassment

Online harassment is an unfortunate reality in the lives of many kids today. Here's how you can recognize this evil and help your child address it safely.

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How to Develop Social Awareness through Social Emotional Learning

Social awareness is the ability to understand and empathize with others, particularly people from different backgrounds. Here's how to inculcate this competency through social emotional learning.

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What is Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning and Why It's Important

Social-emotional learning is of little use unless it's culturally responsive. Here's why.

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How to Develop Student Self-Awareness through Social-Emotional Learning

Self-awareness is the first competency developed through social-emotional learning. Here's a how-to guide on inculcating it in students.

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What Is Culturally Responsive Education?

Social-emotional learning (SEL) utilizes a student's existing set of cultural beliefs, knowledge and values as a launching point for their academic learning and overall education. Teachers use SEL activities to harness the power of their students' cultural backgrounds and help them connect with their curriculum on a different level. To

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Supporting culturally responsive teaching during Black History Month and every day

We move into black history month on the heels of MLK Day, a national holiday celebrating Martin Luther King's outstanding leadership. The month-long acknowledgment is a chance for administrators and teachers to highlight the undeniable achievements and impact Black Americans have had on American History. Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Toni

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Representation in Health Education and Why It Matters

This time in American history, we saw yet another unjust murder: George Floyd, a black man whose name has been added to a devastatingly long list. This event is not isolated. America has responded in outrage, protests, and cries for change. I’m proud to be able to say that