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Digital SEL Resources & Distance Learning

Use these digital social emotional learning resources to support students with SEL needs using Google Drive. Resources include materials for mindful breathing, managing emotions, executive functioning skills, and more.

10+ Social Emotional Activities for Home

March 13, 2020 by pathway2success 1 Comment

Social emotional learning isn’t just something that should be practiced and taught at school. SEL skills are life skills, of course! These include skills like empathy, self-control, and decision-making. Before I even get started, while I was writing this post, I decided to also create a set of SEL printables you can send home with […]

Filed Under: Social Emotional Learning

Coping Strategies

Coping strategies are the tools we use to manage tough emotions and cope with stress. While it is often an expected behavior to know how to handle emotions, it is not a skill we are born with. This is why coping strategies need to be taught and practiced on a regular basis. Strong coping strategies […]

Managing Challenging Behaviors

Supporting kids and teens with challenging behaviors in the classroom. Teachers and parents can use this guide to come up with strategies and techniques to help when kids don’t follow directions or act out in challenging ways. It also includes a link to a free cheat sheet!

SEL Curriculum

The Pathway 2 Success SEL Curriculum is a complete social emotional learning curriculum to teach critical SEL skills for the entire year. It is filled with over 180 lessons and activities targeting social awareness, confidence, SMART goals, social skills, study skills, managing emotions, understanding relationships, decision-making skills, and much more. What is Social Emotional Learning? […]

Mindful Breathing Activities for Kids & Teens

December 8, 2019 by pathway2success 4 Comments

Mindful breathing is a technique that can help improve focus and restore calm into the classroom. Best of all, it’s a strategy that helps develop self-regulation skills, something that kids and teens need throughout their lives. What is Mindful Breathing? The idea behind mindful breathing is that if we can control our breathing, we can […]

Filed Under: Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Teaching, Tips for Teachers Tagged With: mindfulness

15+ Executive Functioning Strategies Every Teacher Can Use

October 13, 2019 by pathway2success 2 Comments

Many kids and young adults struggle with executive functioning challenges. Some are easy to spot, such as when a student can’t focus on a lesson or comes to class without their entire binder. Other EF challenges are less obvious, though. A learner might take two times as long on homework because they don’t understand strategies […]

Filed Under: Back to School, Classroom Management, Executive Functioning Skills, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Study Skills, Teaching, Tips for Teachers

Strategies for Kids with Oppositional Behaviors

October 1, 2019 by pathway2success 9 Comments

Working with kids and young adults who are oppositional can be challenging. Being oppositional might mean refusing to do work, breaking rules, and engaging in other challenging behaviors. The truth is, many kids can be oppositional from time to time, so many of these strategies work with all learners. With that said, these strategies are […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Managing Challenging Behaviors, Positive Behavior Supports, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education

20+ Strategies for Teaching Empathy

August 13, 2019 by pathway2success 1 Comment

Teaching empathy is important. In the simplest of terms, empathy is the ability to notice, understand, and share the emotions of others. It is a critical social skill for all people to have. In many ways, empathy is the social skill that paves the way for all other social skills. It helps us to take […]

Filed Under: Social Emotional Learning, Social Skills, Special Education Tagged With: empathy, perspective-taking, sel, social emotional learning, social skills

Tips for Teaching Study Skills

July 22, 2019 by pathway2success 1 Comment

Good study habits and techniques are critical to help students learn more efficiently, feel more academically confident, persevere through challenges, and ultimately do their best. Sometimes, it’s easy to assume that learners already have these skills intact. The truth is that they sometimes don’t; many learners might not actually know how to study for tests […]

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Executive Functioning Skills, Special Education, Study Skills, Teaching

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Let's talk about strategy shares. They are probabl Let's talk about strategy shares. They are probably something you already do in your classroom, but being intentional about how you use them can build executive functioning skills in a powerful way!

This is a time when learners can explain to others how they have solved a problem or worked through a challenge.

By sharing their unique strategies, students get to learn from one another. The student explaining is building their metacognition skills as they think about their own thinking and the strategies they've used. 

At the same time, other students are practicing active listening, perspective-taking, and mental flexibility to consider new techniques.

To give this a try, let students be the teacher. For example, a student might show their step-by-step work on the board as they walk through how to solve a complex math problem. In other instance, a student might explain how they figure out the main idea of an article, pointing out specific points in the text.

You can also add questions to help deepen the conversation and learning like:

Can you tell me why you chose this strategy?

How did it work for you? What worked well and what didn't?

How would you teach this to someone else?

What steps were the most impactful?

What did you learn?

I hope you give this brain-boosting technique a try in your own classroom!
🧠 Integrating executive functioning skills in the 🧠 Integrating executive functioning skills in the classroom is important!

🧠 While there isn't always a ton of time to teach these skills explicitly in the classroom, there are many ways you can integrate them into what you're already doing.

🧠 I just added this article on my website filled with strategies, ideas, activities, and free materials for the secondary classroom. 

🧠 Keep in mind that these skills truly matter. They help us stay organized, meet deadlines, prioritize responsibilities, manage our emotions/stress, and meet our personal goals.

I hope some of the ideas, supports, and freebies are helpful to you!

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Being able to disconnect from our phones and devic Being able to disconnect from our phones and devices is an important skill. Reducing technology use can help teens and young adults improve focus, build relationships, strengthen social skills, and give time for new experiences.

Keep in mind that disconnecting isn’t about abandoning technology use entirely. Instead, it’s about using meaningful strategies to help us become more present, focused, and connected. It’s something we ALL can learn from.

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4 ways to start a mindful morning: Positive affir 4 ways to start a mindful morning:

Positive affirmations - Say positive statements to yourself aloud. You can start by introducing phrases and eventually kids can make their own individual lists.

Practice gratitude - Identify some things you are grateful for. Try to remember both the big things and the little things. They both matter!

Connect with nature - Spend a few minutes outside. If you can't get out there, take a moment to watch outside the window. Even just watching a bird fly by can feel incredibly calming.

Mindful breathing - Use mindful breathing activities to set the stage for a calm body and mind.

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