Short, fun, research based activities engage children in using and developing skills essential to learning and managing self effectively:

• Listening and focusing attention

• Remembering and using information

• Managing and controlling impulses

A growth mindset helps children to not only bounce back from challenges, but to see every challenge or mistake as an opportunity to learn and grow. 

• Personal and collective goal-setting

• Planning ahead

• Handling roadblocks

• Decision-making

Students learn the purpose of emotions, how to identify emotions in themselves and in others, and strategies for managing strong emotions in a healthy way. Emotion management skills support attention, motivation, academic, behavioral and social success.

• The purpose of emotions

• Building a feelings vocabulary

• Understanding and respecting others’ perspectives

• Calming strong emotions, self-regulation

• Balancing emotion and logic

The ability to learn and understand what others are feeling, and to act with care and compassion to help support healthy relationships and social interactions.  This creates a classroom and school environment for collaborative and cooperative learning, and one in which all students can feel safe, valued and empowered.

• Recognizing contextual clues to how someone is feeling

• Compassion: Empathy in action

• Perspective-taking strategies

Students who are able to take a growth mindset, manage their emotions, communicate effectively, and empathize with others can use their skills to individually and collectively solve problems and resolve interpersonal conflicts.

• Manage strong emotions to think clearly and solve problems

• Understanding others’ perspectives to avoid blaming

• Generate solutions that consider other perspectives

• Evaluate outcomes of solutions

• Cooperative problem solving