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Celebrate World Kindness Day with 5 free kindness activities for the classroom. Encourage empathy, inclusion and acceptance.

Corrinna Pole
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Creating social-emotional learning environments is a powerful way to foster collaboration, equity, and self-management among students.

Morgan Hugoboom
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With daily and weekly social-emotional check-ins for students, you can foster the development of strong social-emotional learning (SEL) .

Sara Austin
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Learn about the benefits of social-emotional learning in schools. While it may be a relatively new area of study, the benefits of SEL are already starting to show.

Amanda Clark
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We sat down and chatted with an educator to discuss how to build teacher-student relationships and spark student engagement along the way.

Classcraft Staff

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Learn how to foster a creative learning environment. Explore 7 ideas for constructing a creative classroom environment.

Mary Dean
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Learn the benefits of breathing exercises for students, and explore 17 breathing activities to incorporate in the classroom.

Jenny Fulton
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Should electronic devices be allowed in school? The use of electronic devices in schools is no longer a fad.

Shweta M.
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Learn more about incorporating role-play as a teacher, and explore the different benefits of role-play in the classroom.

Melissa Williams
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Learn about the benefits of students spending time with family and how to use technology to connect.

Marie Swan
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Discover 8 strategies for enhancing home-school communication to build supportive relationships and foster student success.

Monica Mccutchen
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Learn how to improve mental health in schools. Explore 12 strategies for promoting mental health in schools the support the well-being of students!

Amanda Clark
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Discover student engagement observation checklists that can help you evaluate engagement strengths and areas for improvement.

Nicole Nicholas
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Missouri reading interventionist Angela White shares how she structures her class to meet the academic and social and emotional needs of her students.

Angela White
Elementary Educator

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Explore 11 ideas for cheap or free classroom rewards and incentives. No matter what your budget looks like, get your students motivated to participate!

Ali Habashi
Former Shaped Editor

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Read more for tips on how to help students cope with tragic or disturbing news—particularly news that involves something so personal to them, safety at school.

HMH Staff

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Ring in the new year by teaching practical goal-setting and self-management with your students.

Onalee Smith
Shaped Contributor

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Use these SEL World Kindness Day activities and ideas for the International Day for Tolerance to ensure that every day includes a little (or a lot of!) kindness in your school.

Christine Condon
Shaped Editor-in-Chief