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The Best Social Emotional Learning Resources Of 2026 – So Far
I publish a regular series called SEL Weekly Update, and I thought it would useful to readers and to me to review them and highlight the ones I think are the best of the year. You might also be interested in “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources. All my “Best” lists related to SEL, including previous editions of this Best list, can be found there. Here are my choices from the past six months: The Best Resources For Using “Vision Boards” In Class An Epidemic Of Uncurious People Who Think They’re Curious District Superintendents, Principals & Teachers Might Want To Consider Emulating Coach Mike Brown Recommendations For Teachers From A Study On How To Enhance Student Motivation I Really Like This Strategy For Talking With People You Disagree With No Shocker To Teachers, But New Study Finds SEL Helps Students’ Academic Achievement New Study Finds That Peer & Self Assessment Helps Create The Conditions For Student Motivation Shocking (NOT) Research Result – SEL Can’t Mitigate The Affects Of Poverty On Academic Achievement Why listening may be the most powerful medicine is from Science Daily. How to resist everyday temptations is from Psyche. I’m adding it to Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control. Can persistence and openness reduce inequality in schools? A little bit is from Experience To Meaning. I’m adding it to The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn’t Enough. 5 ways to help students develop a growth mindset in math class is from Teach Learn Grow. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset.” I’m adding this next post to The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn’t Enough:
COMIC: 7 signs it’s time to call it quits is from NPR. I’m adding it to The Best Posts On Students Setting Goals. What can we learn from Steph Curry about leadership? Our 4 favorite lessons is from The Athletic. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Use Stephen Curry & The Warriors For Teaching Social Emotional Learning Skills. The point-guard mentality didn’t just make Sam Darnold better. It’s a useful mental trick is an excellent New York Times article. It reviews evidence showing the advantages of focusing on helping others look good, instead of just yourself – in athletics and in other parts of life. I see it often on the basketball court. The guys who are most highly thought of and who everyone wants to play with are the ones with that attitude. This article could be the basis of a very important classroom lesson, with students sharing their own related experiences. I’m adding it to The Dangers Of “Zero Sum Thinking” In The World, Including In Schools. 4 Ways to Use the Fresh Start Effect to Motivate Students is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students. Building and Sustaining a Sense of Belonging During the Transition to High School is from Stanford. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING HOW TO PROMOTE A SENSE OF “BELONGING” AT SCHOOL. Building Strong and Positive Teacher-Student Relationships in the Classroom: A Systematic Literature Review and Strategy Guide is a useful study. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On The Importance Of Building Positive Relationships With Students. Playing the Long Game: The Power of Self-Control is from Angela Duckworth. I’m adding it to Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control. Practical Ways to Support Students With Adverse Childhood Experiences is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Ways For Responding To Student Trauma – Help Me Find More. How to Help Kids Succeed is from Freakonomics. I’m adding it to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students. New Research on How to Get Workplace Rituals Right is from Harvard Business Review. I’m adding it to The Differences Between “Rituals” & “Routines” In The Classroom, & Why We Need Both. Great Leaders Make People Feel Noticed is from The Harvard Business Review. It offers good ideas that teachers can use in the classroom. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On The Importance Of Building Positive Relationships With Students.
     Ed Tech Digest
Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in checking out all my edtech resources. Here are this week’s choices: This first resource comes from Wonder Tools: I love minimalist tools like the free Kraa, a wonderful new digital writing surface. I’ve started experimenting with creating quick, simple pages, which Kraa calls “leaves.” The example pages shared by Kraa’s founding team will give you a feel for it:
3 Tech Tools to Promote Elementary Students’ Oral Fluency is from Edutopia.
I’m adding these posts to The Best Posts & Articles Highlighting Why We Need To Be Very Careful Around Ed Tech:
 Interesting Survey Results – Teachers Think Aides & A Searchable Data Base For Lessons Are The Two Best Things That Could Save Them Time
Some researchers asked teachers to rank five reforms that could save them time. It should be noted that teachers couldn’t suggest anything else – they just had to rank those five. This is the article: Time well spent? Teacher perspectives on time-saving reforms Interestingly, here is the order of preference, with the top two very close: Additional support from paraprofessionals
No surprise, at least to me, on the top one – having a paraprofessional is wonderful! Also, not at all surprised that the flipped classroom is last. A bit of a shocker that a searchable data base of lessons came in second – it seems like most teachers have that now due to the Internet.
Having more prep time wasn’t an option to choose, but I bet if it had been, it would have won by a mile…..  Sentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: He presents American history as a perpetual struggle between a Puritan North dedicated to liberty and equality and a Cavalier South predicated on hierarchy and domination. Many kids “do not care about the things we are teaching them,” Justin Reich, the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, told us. Instead, he said, they care about impressing their teachers and cooperating and competing with their peers. “They care about the people.” A 2025 paper in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that several large language models had a low opinion of text written by humans, creating a “potentially consequential form of implicit ‘anti-human’ bias.” One brilliant feature of the Costco experience is, paradoxically, the constraint: as opposed to Amazon, with its near infinite assortment, or even Walmart, which has approximately 130,000 SKUs (stock keeping units, or distinct items) in the average Supercenter, any given Costco will only hold 4,000 SKUs to choose from. Civic education at its best cultivates a disposition of curiosity and friendship that invites disagreement: asking thoughtful questions, listening carefully, evaluating evidence, considering competing viewpoints, and learning how to disagree without questioning another person’s dignity. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. The real question isn’t, “How much screen time is okay for kids?” but, “How can we make children’s screen time more meaningful?” In Lampedusa, island gateway to Europe, the U.S.-born pope stressed human dignity and told America: “in every generation” immigrants “helped to shape the nation’s character.” A recent study found that research subjects were speaking tens of thousands fewer words a day over time.
 It’s Malala’s Birthday – Here Are Learning & Teaching Resources
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