Social-Emotional Development

Inclusion Lab readers: Today, we're sharing 19 practical tips you can start using right away to support your students' positive behavior and social skills. These behavior tips come to you…

Meltdowns. They can derail the best-laid lesson plans and dishearten even the best, most patient teacher. We know so many teachers who've been there. You want your inclusive class to…

October is National Bullying Prevention Month, a nationwide campaign founded in 2006 by PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center. To help support your anti-bullying initiatives this month, here are 13 practical suggestions from our…

If you teach in an early childhood classroom that welcomes all learners, you probably have a couple students who keep you up some nights. Not because they're not wonderful kids,…

Today's guest post is by Dr. Kristie Pretti-Frontczak and Dr. Teresa Brown. It's part of our Language & Literacy Development blog series.   *Want to listen to this post instead? You…

  This post is part of our Social-Emotional Development blog series.   Feelings are complicated, and sorrow is one of the most intense and individualized. Processing grief, expressing emotions, and…

  This post is part of our Social-Emotional Development blog series. Stay tuned for more posts in the series, and follow the blog so you don't miss a thing!   Conflicts between classmates are…

On Tuesday, the Inclusion Lab welcomed Ondine Gross, author of the excellent book on mediation in schools, Restore the Respect. Ondine introduced her mediation technique and shared a success story…

If you're a teacher or other education professional, you've probably seen firsthand how unresolved conflicts in schools build barriers to learning. Traditional disciplinary actions take students out of the learning…

Group time in your classroom is an ideal time to teach early literacy and math concepts, but it's also a perfect opportunity to teach stress-reducing strategies to your young learners.…