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.
Transforming Education
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...
Transforming Education
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...
Transforming Education
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...
Transforming Education
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,...
Transforming Education
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,...
Transforming Education
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...
Transforming Education
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.
Transforming Education
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.
Transforming Education
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...
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "Nory Ryan's Song"
This website is full of interactive student activities and lesson plans for Patricia Reilly Giff's book, "Nory Ryan's Song."
BBC
Bbc Radio 3: World on Your Street: The Music of Ireland
A full-featured site for learning about the music of Ireland, although not actively updated since 2005. Easy-to-read spotlights on instruments and musicians communicate the essential qualities of Irish music. Accompanying audio files and...
BBC
Bbc Radio 3: World on Your Street: The Music of Nigeria
A full-featured site for learning about the music of Nigeria, although not actively updated since 2005. Easy-to-read spotlights on instruments and musicians communicate the essential qualities of Nigerian music. Accompanying audio files...
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Pbs Learning Media: Choctaw Dances
This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, presents aspects of traditional Mississippi Choctaw dances, instruments, and games.
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Pbs Learning Media: The Voyage of Kealoha
This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, tells the Kealoha story, "Hawaii's Native Seamen and Their Whaling Legacy," through a dramatization and source images.
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Pbs Learning Media: Maui and the Creation of the Islands
This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, portrays a dramatic telling of the story, Maui and the Creation of the Islands.
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Pbs Learning Media: Automatic Door Opener
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, watch the design process in action as cast members create automatic door openers to open their bedroom doors while still lying down.