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6 ways to optimize your school’s SEL curriculum

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Having used the 7 Mindsets SEL curriculum for roughly six years at my prior school, I knew right away that I could help my new school optimize its SEL curriculum, which had been in place for about a year. The committee works with the curriculum team to make sure we’re weaving the 7 Mindsets into our classroom language and lessons.

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Using comics across the curriculum

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While it might be easier to see how comics would fit into an English language arts class, there’s no great trick to incorporating them across the curriculum. Why comics? The most obvious reason to have students create comics in class is because they’re fun.

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How to find language learning opportunities for students

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There has been a steady decline in language learning in schools. According to the Pew Research Center , only one in five K-12 students in the United States now learns another language, and just 10 states and the District of Columbia make world language learning a requirement for graduating from high school.

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Reimagining attendance: A curriculum approach for K-12 students and parents

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But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy to enforce, but as an essential part of the curriculum for both students and parents? Here’s why we should consider attendance as part of the curriculum. By treating attendance as a curriculum topic, we open up new avenues for engagement and learning.

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How to integrate environmental concepts into every subject

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My goal became connecting students to nature through their passions and connecting teachers standards-driven curriculum to nature through environmental literacy. One of my earliest projects as the Director of Environmental Education for a public school district in New York was in a middle school English Language Arts classroom.

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An OER curriculum brings my students’ lives into our classroom

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Teaching in this way requires a good deal of flexibility—including in your curriculum. I’ve been using an OER science curriculum called OpenSciEd for five years, and it has completely revolutionized the way I teach. Our student population represents more than 30 languages, and many of them are new to learning English.

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How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum

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It’s possible to combine PBL and maker education across the curriculum–and during a must-see ISTELive 24 session , Nicholas Provenzano , a teacher, technology coordinator, and makerspace director at University Liggett School in Michigan, demonstrated just how to do it. The best part? Why maker education?