SEL and RP

Classroom activities that encourage students' social and emotional learning and promote restorative practices

Get students moving and and enjoying each other with one of these fun activities. 

This collection of light, fun activities invite you and your students to come together and enjoy each other’s company during these stressful times, and take a break from more serious classwork.

This activity, aimed at caregivers and their middle or high-schoolers, provides a student-driven process for young people to think flexibly and creatively about their opportunities for learning during this period, formulate ideas, and follow through on them. 

A poem, a free-writing exercise, and class sharing can provide support for middle and high school students during this difficult period.

A yoga activity and a story about change and loss can provide support for students in grades 3-5.

Sharing feelings and discussing a story about change and loss can provide support for preK-2 students during this difficult period.

This activity uses a poem and a feelings word-creation activity to engage students in identifying and sharing their feelings. 

In these stressful times, this activity encourages students in grades 3-5 to see that we all feel a range of emotions, and that it's okay to feel them and to express them.

In these stressful times, this activity encourages our youngest students to see that we all feel a range of emotions, and that it's okay to feel them and to express them.

Students explore ways to creatively connect, show each other support, and display kindness amid this pandemic.