SEL and RP
Classroom activities that encourage students' social and emotional learning and promote restorative practices
The first lesson introduces students to the concept of conflict; the second has students practice coming up with "win-win solutions." See our conflict resolution programs.
Five activities use different methodologies to help you and your students reflect on the year and look ahead to next year.
Students work individually to create a "cultural banner" expressing values, traditions, and activities important in their families.
Working in small groups, students categorize coping strategies as positive, negative, neutral, and time-out behaviors.
In a talk at the recent Educators to Stop the War Conference, ESR Metro executive director Tom Roderick reflects on the creativity of teachers during these trying times.
Uses a student role play to help young people consider the choices of assertiveness, aggressiveness, and passivity.
These two classroom practices give your students time and space to reflect on and discuss their thoughts and feelings.
Students consider stereotypes, beginning with stereotypes of "teenagers."
Uses puppets to introduce young children to the concept of escalating and deescalating conflict.