Social emotional learning is becoming more and more of a focus in modern education. Even the Target Dollar Spot is littered with emotion identification products this season, among other SEL manipulatives! And this is for GOOD reason. Over the past four years that I’ve been in this profession, there has been a shift, one that veteran teachers who are much more knowledgeable than I can undoubtedly see. For one, there’s a push to bring more rigor into the classroom. We’re asking kids to perform greater and greater tasks (some that arguably aren’t developmentally appropriate). Many of us are also working to bring STEM related studies into our rooms, because we…
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