MYTH: Social Emotional Learning and Character Education is “fluffy” and don’t help me hit my mandated state standards. There’s no time for it.
FACT: Social Emotional Learning, if taught the correct way, helps improve your students’ academic success. It teaches them necessary skills like problem solving, self-regulation, responsiblity, and critical thinking skills.
And if your students are being bullied, teased, or targeted by mean kids, there’s no way your lesson, no matter how amazing, will ever get through to them. They’ll be too worried about their emotional or physical safety to concentrate or try their best.
When you create an emotionally safe learning environment for your students, they will show up to school ready to learn, excited to learn, and won’t be scared to be wrong, won’t be teased for always being right, laughed at for their “weird,” out-of-the-box idea.
You can feel empowered and confident you’re truly setting your students up for success.
Your classroom can be an emotionally safe, kind, inviting, welcoming place to learn when you use the proven strategies and resources in The Teaching Kind Kids Movement because it sets your kids up for success: to speak and act with kindness more often…with less refereeing and reminders from you!