This research shares best practices in promoting social and emotional learning in preschools.
Angela Lee Duckworth in her TED Talk "GRIT: The power of passion and perserverance, talks about what it means to exhibit GRIT and how get there.
This TED talks features Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as he asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
Temple Adat Elohim, Thousand Oaks, CA. Families come together twice a month, once to experience Shabbat as a B’Yachad community and another time to help heal the world by participating in Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) projects
A guide that provides ways to respond (and how not to respond) when someone comes out to you as transgender.
A set of conversation topics, activities and conversation guides to accompany a Mental Health Shabbat.
This resource explores how traumatic events impact students' learning, behavior, and relationships.
This Candian site is short and relevant, with a great graphic on the bottom to guide educators on their roles and responsibilities vis-à-vis mental health (“Aligned and Integrated Model”).
This is a model policy (from Virginia) from 2013, which is a 14-page document (+ 25 pp appendix). The chapters include: 1. Defining Bullying 2 .Prevention and Intervention 3. Reporting, Investigating and Recording Incidents
This article is a comprehesive resrouce from a journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children published in July 2017.