Transforming Education
The Impact of Praise
How to praise and not praise is the question addressed by a short video designed for educators. The narrator shares the results of a simple experiment that details how praising learners' efforts results in better performance.
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SEL for Educators: Mini Module #6
Keep stress low by establishing balance and boundaries with Mini Module #5. In this social-emotional learning video, educators discover the ins and outs of final high-leverage practices—understanding the "cost of caring," forming healthy...
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SEL for Educators: Mini Module #5
Mini Module #5 examines the high-leverage practice of orienting towards optimism. In this 11-minute video, educators take in the importance of optimism as they progress through their social and emotional learning journey, paying special...
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SEL for Educators: Mini Module #4
In this social-emotional learning journey, educators watch an 11-minute video that examines how to cultivate compassionate curiosity. Mini Module #4 details how to use an asset-based lens, listen empathetically, and look at behavior as a...
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SEL for Educators: Mini Module #3
Mini module #3 focuses on exploring emotions—one of the five high-leverage practices in an educator's social and emotional development. Viewers take in a 10-minute video that looks at how to label emotions, recognize physical reactions,...
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SEL for Educators: Mini Module #2
A 12-minute video details the first social and emotional learning practice—examine identity; how do educators work on their social and emotional wellbeing. One of five high-leverage practices looks closely at values and purpose,...
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SEL for Educators: Mini Module #1
Become a champion of social-emotional development with an informative series created for educators. In this first video, the host details the what, why, and how of social-emotional learning. In just over 15 minutes, viewers discover...
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Student and Parent Perspectives on Mindfulness
Turn a breakdown into a breakthrough. In a short video, scholars and a parent share what they have learned about mindfulness and how developing the skills inherent in this competency can help in school and at home.
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Meet Teri (Growth Mindset)
Anything is possible if you practice, practice, practice! That's Teri's advice to scholars struggling to acquire a new skill.
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Let's Talk About Self-Management: Marshmallows, Stop Signs, Squeezy Balls, and Teaching
The big idea behind a short video designed for educators is that self-management skills are taught and that those who develop this skill are more successful now and in the future.
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Future-Self | Social-Emotional Learning
Help young people see their future self, help them establish goals, and give them strategies to achieve these goals. Knowing who they are, what their strengths are, and helping them develop social and emotional confidence are the keys to...
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Responsible Decision-Making | Social-Emotional Learning
Being able to identify problems, analyze situations, solve problems, and to evaluate, reflect, and recognize ethical responsibility all come into play when making responsible decisions. A short video offers teachers and parents an...
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Relationship Skills | Social-Emotional Learning
Communication, social engagement, relationship building, and teamwork are the heart of relationship skills. Parents and teachers share strategies for helping young people develop these important skills.
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Social-Awareness | Social-Emotional Learning
A short PBS video offers suggestions for how to help 21st-century learners develop social awareness. Perspective-taking, empathy, appreciating diversity, and respect for others are the targeted aspects of this social and emotional...
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Self-Management | Social-Emotional Learning
Stop, think, act. Impulse control, stress management, self-discipline, self-motivation, and goal setting are among the skills associated with self-management, one of the social and emotional learning competencies. A short video suggests...
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Teacher Appreciation Week | All About the Holidays
A video details how one teacher's efforts turned the spotlight onto the hard work educators put forth day-in and day-out. Included is a brief history of teachers in the first schools, today's practices, and how the holiday is celebrated.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Patterns Video
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource provides students with a video clearly demonstrating the use of patterns to develop choreography for dance routines. Be sure to follow the link to the provided interactive exercise that offers...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Raising Monarch Butterflies
A set of activities and a video that look at the life cycle of the monarch butterfly and at its migration to Mexico. The activities include raising butterflies, tagging them, and creating a butterfly garden. [1:42]
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Mimic in the Grass
In this episode of the Kratt brothers, we learn about cheetahs and other animals, and how they protect themselves through mimicry. The storyline has a baby cheetah being catnapped by a fashion designer. It escapes by imitating a honey...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Kickin' It With the Roos
This episode of the Kratt brothers has them interacting with kangaroos after a joey steals their car keys. They learn about the differences between humans and kangaroos, and discover how powerful kangaroo feet are and the role they play...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Koala Balloon
In this episode of the Kratt brothers, we learn about how animals adapt to their environment in order to survive. The storyline has them visiting the Australian Outback to help a young koala return to its eucalyptus forest home. They...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Caracal Minton
In this episode of the Kratt brothers, we learn about the caracal and the serval, wild cats that lives on the African Savannah. The storyline has the team working to retrieve a birdie that was stolen by a caracal during a game of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Do the Lizard Walk
A set of activities and a video on lizards. The activities have students use electrostatic attraction to mimic a gecko's grip, use capillary action to try to drink like a thorny devil, use camouflage to blend in like a chameleon, and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: On the Road
Chris and Martin experience the life of a butterfly inlcluding their predators and the need for lots of energy.