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This is where I share my thoughts, ideas, and activities to support the emotional growth of children.
As Children Head Back Into Classrooms, Teachers Will Need To Focus On Emotions, Not Academics.
As schools begin welcoming students back to classrooms, their teachers will be tasked with not only getting them back on-track academically—but also helping them manage the psychological impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. And that emotional support must take...
Making Kids Say Sorry Does Not Create More Empathic Children
We all want kids to care about one another. We want our children to grow up to be kind, empathic humans who feel a sense of caring for one another. We want our classrooms to be inclusive spaces in which a sense of caring is alive, not just with words, but in lived...
Heart and Mind Lessons from Aanmitaagzi on Big Medicine Studio
Sid Bobb – Co-Director of Aanmitaagzi, Photo By: Bettina Vollmerhausen This month I wanted to take the time to celebrate and share the heart and mind transformations that my students and I received from working with Aanmitaagzi at Big Medicine Studio on the...
Supporting Our Students as They Return to Our Classrooms
How we can reduce anxiety and aggression through activities that provide emotional release As our elementary students head back to school during this turbulent time, there will be many emotions stirred up in them. Alarm. Frustration. Worry. Excitement. And...
We’ve replaced play with entertainment – and it is not boding well for children’s emotional health.
A few weeks ago, Tamara and I were invited onto the American educational podcast Unstuck, to discuss our newly released book, Reclaiming Our Students. During this podcast, we got talking about why kids are more anxious, aggressive, and shut-down than ever. Well, there...
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[Podcast] Getting Unstuck: Shift for Impact talks to us about Reclaiming Our Students
A couple of weeks ago, Tamara and I joined Jeff Ikler and Kirsten Richert on their podcast, Getting Unstuck, to talk about Reclaiming Our Students and the huge potential for every single person who cares about children's learning to create deep, meaningful...
What’s behind the behaviour? There’s always something.
Imagine a wilted plant in a window. Your first thought to help it would probably be to determine what it needs: Does it need more water? Less water? Does it have enough sun? Does it need extra care now because you forgot about it for a few weeks? Is it a delicate...
Teaching Remotely: Building Relationship and Supporting Emotional Well-Being Online
A lot of us are back to teaching – but teaching now in a whole new way. It’s a big learning curve, one that I also am experiencing. Although I am currently teaching undergraduate students in a university faculty of education, I find myself grappling with many...
Inside Out Activity: The Frustration Monster!
This is a great activity for kids ages five to eleven. (These ages are approximate and are suggested guidelines only.) What’s the benefit? This activity can help a child think about frustration and what it feels like inside of them. It can also help...
Kids are playing “coronavirus tag.” Should we be worried?
Like many of us, my family recently learned that my son’s school would be shut down due to the coronavirus epidemic. On his last day of school before the shut down, we were chatting, when he casually told me he had been playing “coronavirus tag” with his friends at...