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EQ Education News: Learning from Loneliness

In this month’s newsletter, we dive into Loneliness, bringing you research and tips so you can better manage feelings of loneliness

How Do You Want Your Students to Feel? Emotional Intelligence Tips for Teaching in 2023

Learning is both an emotional and rational process. How do we blend the two? Here is a map teachers and trainers can use to bring head and heart together in learning.

Comparing the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence and CASEL Wheel

The Six Seconds EQ Model moves the CASEL competencies into action. Learn about both frameworks and how they complement each other.

Improve your Virtual Classroom with Social Emotional Learning: 10 Tips for Teachers and Students

Get practical tips and activities to teach social emotional learning virtually.

Why SEL Matters Even More in the Pandemic – and How

Education is stressed. Teachers, administrators, kids, parents are struggling – so why should we focus on social emotional learning (SEL) at a time like this? And for remote or hybrid teaching, is it even possible?

EQ for UNICEF World Children’s Day (#28)

It’s time for POP-UP Festival in partnership with UNICEF World Children’s Day! While we’ll need to adapt to the challenges of 2020, THIS is the moment for this project: Children around the globe are struggling with loneliness and uncertainty. We can help.

Learning & the Brain: Neuroscientist Immordino-Yang

At a neurological level, how does the brain actually learn, and what’s the role of emotion? What’s the implication for education and training?

Social Emotional Learning & Equity in Education

Is education the path to a just and equitable society, or part of systematized racism – or both? If all change starts within, then how can we grow the emotional intelligence skills needed to shift the systems and build communities of equity?

SEL for Teacher Education (#19)

Why do educators need social emotional learning? SEL in Higher education is essential for students, but how can we teach what we don’t know? What are the essential skills aspiring educators must develop in order to be effective at the “people side” of education?

SEL & Equity in Higher Education (#18)

For equity in college and higher education, what social emotional learning skills are needed? What will support the dialogue, awareness & empathy needed to build communities of equity?

Social Emotional Learning in Higher Education (#17)

Why is social emotional learning taking center stage at colleges and universities around the globe? How can SEL play a role in building communities of equity? How are teacher colleges bringing SEL into their programs?

Self-Science: Classroom Emotional Intelligence

I first thought it must be some new laboratory class — I soon learned that the scientific study of self changes everything… and enables us to change anything.

POP-UP Movement: Emotional Intelligence Everywhere

POP-UP Festival in partnership with UNICEF World Children’s Day brought EQ to every corner of the world, activated 15k volunteers in 3900 Cities, reaching 1.67 million people.

Lessons from EQ.EDU Higher Ed Conference

How do we bridge the gap between childhood and the workforce? How can Higher Ed use EQ to improve outcomes? EQ.EDU Moving SEL into Higher Ed conference explores these topics.

Research: Growing an Emotionally Intelligent School

What does research show about using assessments to guide effective implementation of social emotional learning? Here are highlights from a new journal article.

First Nations Youth Finding Wellbeing with Emotion, Spirit, Body & Mind

For teens struggling with a brutal addiction to solvents, hope and healing seem far away. Traditional culture & the Medicine Wheel combine with emotional intelligence to support a path forward for the children, and their counselors.

Dragonfly: Social Emotional Learning Goes Outdoors

For kids across Asia, Dragonfly’s outdoor ed and service learning program is all about self-discovery through EQ. Find out how this unique model is helping kids develop their interpersonal skills.

Improving School Leaders’ Effectiveness Through EQ

Principals have a special role in promoting social emotional learning. Find out what the research shows works best.

Teaching Emotional Intelligence Like a Snake Charmer

Like charming snakes requires special skills, teaching EQ in schools gives students training for life to help make positive choices and healthy relationships.

Studying EQ in a Rural Appalachian Highschool

Can a 10-week EQ Course change the Emotional Intelligence scores of students in a rural Appalachian high school class? Eastern Kentucky is comprised of tiny towns tucked into valleys between the steep Appalachian Mountains in the heart of coal country. The region has some of the highest drop-out rates in the nation, as well as […]

The Case for Social Emotional Learning

What is emotional intelligence and why does it matter in education? What does current research say about “social emotional learning”?

Mindful Insights into Student SEL Development

Six Seconds Co-Founder/President, Anabel Jensen, Speaks at NAIS Conference Yesterday, I shared the stage with one of my heroes—Denise Clark Pope, author of Doing School: How we are creating a generation of stressed out, materialistic, and miseducated students. She is also co-author of the recently released Overloaded and Unprepared: Strategies for Healthy Schools and Healthy, […]

Bully-proof Your Kids with Emotional Intelligence

Teachers Learning EQ: An Arizona Success Story

Emotional Intelligence Is Key to Teacher Education at ASU It seems a given that all teachers colleges would teach emotional intelligence, but that is not the case. Now, with the help of Six Seconds, Arizona State University is pioneering a teacher training program that places EQ front and center. As it grows, it will become […]

Healthy Classrooms, Emotional Intelligence, and Brain Research

Research shows social emotional learning improves classroom performance. How does it work & what does brain research show about emotion in learning?

How Should Educators Respond to Tragic Events?

How should educators respond to tragic events that enter our classrooms and schools? I was reading a blog post this morning that made me think about this question. The author, a 7th grade teacher in Boston, received emails from her students asking if they could change their ” current events research topic” assignment of the week […]

Three Traps for Teaching EQ, Especially for Teens

Recently a student told me that she dreads the “SEL” class in her school because, “the teacher is so fake.” There are three key traps that lead to this kind of failure in social emotional learning, and some simple-but-challenging solutions to find a balance in inquiry, planning, and power.

Sociograms: Mapping the Emotional Dynamics of a Classroom

A sociogram is a useful tool for educators who want objective data on a classroom’s social dynamics – here’s how they work.

Developing EQ Smart School Counselors: A Case Study

Emotional Intelligence: A Key to Positive Change

In this speech, Six Seconds’ Chairman Karen McCown shares the definition, process, and purpose of teaching emotional intelligence. Karen founded the renown Nueva School in 1967 as a laboratory for integrating academic and emotional development for gifted children (it went on to win two Federal Blue Ribbon Awards for Excellence in Education).

Vigilance and Violence Prevention

EQ Reflection: Vigilance and Prevention April 27, 1999 I know we’ve all heard and thought a lot about Columbine. Rather than going over the same ground about what happened and why, I’d like to consider my own role in this kind of violence, and ask you to do the same. Like all of us, I […]

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