5 Ways to Build Effective Social and Emotional Learning Environments Online

<p>The current education climate has created unique social-emotional challenges for students, parents, and teachers alike. Today, Dr. Amy Cranston helps us understand how to create effective social-emotional learning environments online. As we move forward and plan, we need to make sure that the environments we create for learning help children thrive educationally and emotionally. Here's advice to help us have these important conversations.</p> <p><a href= "https://www.coolcatteacher.com/e661">www.coolcatteacher.com/e661</a> </p> <p><strong>Sponsor</strong>: In today’s challenging times, we know how critical it is to make sure kids are equipped with social and emotional learning skills to cope with the world around them. That's why I’m excited to highlight the <a href= "https://www.we.org/en-US/our-work/we-schools/sel/"><strong>WE Schools Program</strong></a>, made possible by <strong>The Allstate Foundation</strong>. It brings social and emotional learning together with service-learning, helping children build key skills such as resilience, empathy, perseverance and problem-solving. Whether you're an educator looking for ways to integrate SEL into your lesson planning, or a parent looking to support your kid's remote learning at home, go to <a href= "http://we.org/SEL">WE.org/SEL</a> for helpful educational resources and tips. Our friends at The Allstate Foundation and WE are committed to providing you with the resources you need to get started.</p> <h2>Dr. Amy Cranston - Bio as Submitted</h2> <p>Dr. Amy Cranston is a 20-year veteran educator specializing in Social Emotional Learning (SEL). She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization SEL4CA, and the author of "Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments" (Shell Education pub, 2020).<br /> To learn more, visit <a href= "https://www.sel4ca.org">SEL4CA.org</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a sponsored podcast episode. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or somethi