Social, Emotional Learning: Instructional Support Goes Online
Dr. Maurice Elias highlights SecondStep.org, online support for the program that offers a pre-K to grade 8 program used to teach social, emotional skills. The community of implementers of SEL and...
View ArticleRestoring the Soul and Skill of Educators Through Engaged Teaching
Blogger Maurice Elias contends education involves the whole child -- nurturing the curiosity, intellect, hearts and souls of children -- at all times. In the aftermath of the testing regimen, or just...
View ArticleSpecial Education: Promoting More Inclusion at Your School
Dr. Maurice Elias makes the case for promoting inclusion of students in special education in all school activities. It is all too rare for discussions of school culture and climate and SEL to focus...
View ArticleEngaged Teaching: "Do Now" Activities for Your Lessons
Blogger Maurice Elias shares some simple tips for implementing SEL in elementary, middle and high school classes -- including a short quiet time at the beginning and end of the day, using transition...
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Teaching At-Risk Youth: Looking Back 50 Years
Blogger Maurice Elias revisits past research still relevant and valuable on how best to serve at-risk students in urban schools. http://www.flickr.com/photos/53901376@N04/6855457682When it comes to...
View ArticleCreating a Positive Climate and Culture: How Inclusive Schools Promote SEL
Dr. Maurice Elias highlights schools where social, emotional learning and inclusive curriculum go hand-in-hand. In a recent blog, I interviewed Dr. Brad Lerman about the Inclusive Schools Climate...
View ArticleSix Paths to Better Leadership
Maurice Elias outlines six important standards for school leaders to make a difference in the lives of their students and school communities. We know a lot about effective leadership in education --...
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Back to School: Goal Setting With Your Students
Blogger Maurice Elias explores 12 virtues for teachers to use when goal setting with students. http://www.flickr.com/photos/comedynose/7865159650Dara Feldman, in her inspiring new book, The Heart of...
View ArticleBack to School: 3 Question Activities to Connect Students
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias describes three classroom activities for team and trust building with students. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I...
View ArticleTeaching Emotional Literacy
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias shares why teaching emotional literacy should be a priority and how it relates to academic success. I recently had the opportunity to appear on Science Friday with Marc...
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Why Students Should Discover The Liberty Bell's True History
Blogger Maurice Elias offers up lessons on The Liberty Bell to inspire students to ask critical questions and look more deeply at the world.http://www.flickr.com/photos/townhero/5651145540/As the new...
View ArticleHelping Students Develop the Skills to Focus
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias shares a classroom activity that helps K-8 students develop their ability to focus and pay better attention. In Dan Goleman's new book, Focus: The Hidden Driver of...
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Refocusing Students: How to Get Their Attention Back
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias offers activities to help secondary students practice focusing their attention and then getting themselves refocused when needed....
View ArticleA Call to All Social-Emotional Learning Leaders
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias asks SEL and character education leaders to work together to create a set of guidelines and to also decide on a common language and terminology. It's time for the...
View ArticleHabits of Heart: Helping Students Reflect and Act on Gratitude
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias offers teachers several classroom activities to help students understand gratitude and put it to practice. The jury is in and the verdict is that gratitude should be set...
View ArticleA Mid-Year Reflection for Teachers and Students
Blogger Maurice Elias offers up useful activities to help teachers and students reflect halfway through the school year. As we edge towards the end of the calendar year and the first half of the...
View ArticleYou've Got to Reach Before You Teach
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias shares strategies and activities to help educators effectively reach students. "Whether at the start of the school year, the re-start of school after the New Year, or at...
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How Are Social-Emotional Learning and the Common Core Connected?
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias proposes that social-emotional and character development are inseparable from students becoming college, career, and civic ready, the mission of the Common Core....
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The Hardest Job in America
Edutopia blogger Maurice Elias reflects on the powerful words of Sargent Shriver, a champion for public school teachers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/53901376@N04/10094973395/The hardest job in...
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A Truly Socially Inclusive School Benefits Everyone
Dr. Maurice Elias highlights Project UNIFY, a program that brings differently-abled students together in various forms of shared activities and purposes....
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