Social-Emotional Learning: A Toolkit for Busy Teachers

Advice for teachers is a dime a dozen. But how do you know if the latest conference session or TikTok video will truly make a difference in your life and teaching practice?

Teachers need tools that they know will work—fast. That’s why we’ve assembled graduate-level strategies in an easy-to-use downloadable toolkit that will help improve teaching practices today. These techniques and resources have been expertly curated and vetted by K–12 educators with years of experience creating high-caliber professional development—striking the right balance between research-based rigor and bite-size, actionable advice that fits a teacher’s busy schedule.

Use this 20-page guide as a reference, 30 minutes of professional development reading, or a series of exercises you can come back to all semester long.

What’s in the toolkit?

The Social–Emotional Learning Toolkit gives you resources and activities to help your students:

• Feel at ease and respected so they can focus in class.
• Cope with stressful situations and build resilience and perseverance.
• Develop self-awareness and self-regulation skills so they can control their emotions and decrease their anxiety.
• Understand their strengths as well as their weaknesses.
• Interact appropriately in different social situations.
• Communicate and participate effectively in group work.
• Foster a culturally responsive classroom.