Life Tools for Social, Emotional (and Intellectual) Development

The longer I work at this whole teaching (and parenting) thing, the more convinced I am that it's (almost) ALL about social emotional development. I think great teachers have known this all along, and now the emerging field of neuroscience can overwhelmingly support this notion.

So this year I finally decided to do something about it. I decided I'm no longer okay with leaving SEL up to chance, fitting it in occasionally during a morning meeting, or thinking of it as something that gets in the way of the other more important stuff. As a kindergarten teacher I have firmly committed to the notion that it IS the important stuff.