Social Emotional Learning

By fostering skills like empathy, communication, and conflict resolution, Social Emotional Learning enhances how students interact with their own emotions and develop  interpersonal relationships, a key component of your classroom culture. We encourage thoughtfully introducing events and elements of history by identifying the emotions that this history will evoke. We have incorporated opportunities within the Teacher Tips to be responsive and open to the impact that content will have on students. In addition to those tips. you can practice an intentional pedagogy of emotions, by adding guiding language and acknowledging the difficulty. This might sound or look like saying to your class  “This is hard history. You might feel sadness, anger, or other strong emotions. I invite you to be aware of your feelings as there will be opportunity to reflect on them later. The bigger goal of learning about this hard history is to invite us all to use our feelings and our knowledge and to act so that it never happens again.”. We encourage you to use your own best practices as well as the teacher tips to ensure that your intent and impact are well aligned.