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SEL & RP

SEL & RP

Activities to support students' social and emotional learning and restorative practices

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SEL & RP
Social & Emotional Learning & Restorative Practices
Current Issues
Current Issues
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This lesson has young people explore how we can use music to care for ourselves during times of stress - and share music they find calming with their peers. 

Invite young young people to enjoy and reflect on a video recitation of the uplifting poem Sometimes. 

Music can be healing, uplifting, and calming for both adults and children. This lesson has young people experience how we can use music to care for ourselves during times of stress

Music can be healing, uplifting, and calming for both adults and children. This lesson has young people experience how we can use music to care for ourselves during times of stress

Students hear the voices of the food workers who harvest, deliver, serve, and sell our food, and consider how these workers are on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.

Get students moving and and enjoying each other with one of these fun activities. 

This collection of light, fun activities invite you and your students to come together and enjoy each other’s company during these stressful times, and take a break from more

This activity, aimed at caregivers and their middle or high-schoolers, provides a student-driven process for young people to think flexibly and creatively about their opportunities

A poem, a free-writing exercise, and class sharing can provide support for middle and high school students during this difficult period.

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Students share their thoughts and feelings in response to the conviction of police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.

Students learn about and discuss the current state of the youth climate movement and how young people are helping to shape our nation's response to the climate crisis.

Students practice identifying and using stress management strategies to better cope with upsetting news.

Students hear the story of one Asian American family, consider some key dates in the history of racism against Asian Americans, and learn about and discuss their own family history

Students learn about and discuss why people around the world are calling for a “people’s vaccine” to protect everyone against Covid.

Students explore the accelerating move toward electric vehicles and consider how we might address some of the remaining obstacles to this transition.