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Free Friendship and Empathy Kit from Red Nose Day & Six Seconds
In a time where so many children feel disconnected and alone, it’s time to share skills for being and making friends!
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How does social emotional learning improve educational effectiveness? How can students, teachers, parents, and administrators use the skills of EQ to get better results?
How Do You Want Your Students to Feel? Emotional Intelligence Tips for Teaching
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.
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Igniting Hope in our Students: Three Sparks
Educators and parents are concerned about children and youth becoming cynical about making the world a better place. They seem to be losing hope. Dr. Maurice Elias offers three strategies to change that.
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5 SEL Check-In Activities for Your Classroom
Social emotional learning is essential for academic and life success. Here are 5 quick, easy check-in activities to bring SEL to life in your classroom.
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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.
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3 Tips to Unleash Motivation – Even When Remote
How do you use emotional intelligence to fuel lasting motivation? The Motivation Iceberg is a simple, clear model for understanding how to motivate – even in WFH during a pandemic.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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IQ vs. EQ: Why it matters what we measure
The progress and problems that define the Digital Era are the logical conclusion of 100 years dedicated to cognitive intelligence. What would emerge from 100 years dedicated to emotional intelligence?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Educating Antiracism for Teachers and Kids (#11)
Between the pandemic and antiracist uprising, education is in a deep challenge. Educators, children, parents are suffering. Can emotional intelligence help? How? We’re joined by some of the world’s top experts on these topics for an honest and uplifting look at the emotional world of education in 2020
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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.
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Investing in Girls’ Wellbeing Together
POP-UP Festival and Girls’ Festival San Francisco team up to inspire and empower more than 5,000 young women and their families.
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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.
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Yale’s Marc Brackett Shares Personal Healing Story
Marc Brackett says the process started by liberating himself from judging his own emotions, giving himself permission to feel.
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Case Study: EQ Declines During Medical School
Recent research at Liberty University finds that medical students’ emotional intelligence scores declined across the board during their training – even as a growing body of evidence points to the importance of EQ in modern healthcare.
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United Nations Emotional Intelligence Conference
Emotional intelligence steps onto the global stage at the United Nations’ first EQ conference. What happened there?
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9 Ways to Teach A Growth Mindset to Kids
Cultivating a growth mindset has been strongly linked to greater happiness and achievement in life. Here are 9 tips + strategies to give your kids the gift of a growth mindset.
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Growing Courageous Leaders for the Future
To create an environment that’s fit for the future, we need to help children grow the internal leadership skills that will allow them to build that reality. Here’s how.
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Back to School with Hope and Maybe Something More?
Heading back to school, mixed with hope & fear. How can we help students (anyone) feel belonging and acceptance as they are — while also supporting them to keep growing?
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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.
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Revitalizing School Community
How do schools become vibrant, joyful, inclusive communities? School leaders intentionally build them with teachers, students and family collaboration.
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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.
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8 Practical EQ Tips for Moving Collaborations Forward
Feeling stuck in your collaboration? Here are 8 tips for harnessing your emotions to create your ideal collaborative outcome.
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Talking with Kids About Tragic News
After horrific events in the news, do you share your feelings w kids/students… or try to reassure by hiding your feelings? How can we talk with children about these difficult feelings?
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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.
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How to Increase Empathy in Children
The key to happiness is strong, lifelong relationships – and you build those with empathy. Here’s how to increase empathy in children.
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Research Study: School Burnout in Adolescents
They’re unmotivated, cranky, and stressed… What’s going on with youth these days? New research says teens are even more stressed than adults — and burnout is on the rise. Here’s the story, straight from those in the middle of it.
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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.
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Improving School Leaders’ Effectiveness Through EQ
Principals have a special role in promoting social emotional learning. Find out what the research shows works best.
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How to Understand People: Ask, Listen, and Get Real
Do you want to know how to understand people more easily? A starting point is a wide-spread lie we tell others — and ourselves. Here’s how to connect on a deeper level.
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Teaching in the Age of Selfies
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How to Teach Children Emotional Intelligence for a Better World
When feelings run hot, how can we use emotional intelligence to fuel our commitment for positive change… and support children to create a better world?
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Supporting Children’s Rights through Strong Relationships
Mutually respectful relationships are a foundation for human rights. So how can children & adults use emotional intelligence to strengthen relationships?
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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.
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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 […]
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