Tag: social emotional learning
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Feeling Overwhelmed by Teaching? Try These 8 Small Resets
September can be a strange month. There’s the excitement of a new school year, new students, new routines, and the feeling that everything is starting fresh. But there’s also the sheer amount of stuff that comes with being back at school. There are names to learn, emails to answer, lessons to plan, paperwork to complete,…
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8 ways to end a yoga class for teens
When I started teaching yoga to high school students, I was uncertain about best practices for ending the class. Should I stick with namaste, the closing from classes I’ve gone to for years? Or would that be cross over into cultural appropriation? I scoured the internet for advice, reading article upon article that advised for…
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Teaching Chakras in Schools: A Practical Approach for Teens
There is so much focus in schools on performance, grades, deadlines. And very little space is for teens to understand themselves. That’s one of the reasons I teach the chakras. Not in a mystical, abstract way; but in a grounded, practical way that can help students reflect on their feelings and experiences. Because teenagers are…
