How to Be Happy, According to Science
Here’s what the research says about the things we can do every day to improve our happiness, even during immensely challenging times. Read more >>
How Teachers Can Help Students With Special Needs Navigate Distance Learning
Distance learning is challenging for many learners, but can be even more challenging for students with learning, attention, or social-emotional needs. As educators and parents, we are tasked with an unprecedented challenge: Figuring out how to reach and teach diverse Read more >>
7 Tips to Manage Stress and Improve Your Quality of Life
As recent months have demonstrated, stress is unavoidable. Now more than ever, it’s important to understand stress and how we can manage it. While stress can be beneficial, too much of it can be harmful. Read more >>
Arthur on Racism: Talk, Listen, and Act [web resource]
Help introduce young learners to discussions around race and racism with classroom resources and support materials from Arthur. Find video clips, classroom book lists, and downloadable handouts with tips on how to make your classroom a safe space on PBS Read more >>
Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools — Online Training for Educators [web resource] [downloadable]
Schools play a significant role in supporting the health and well-being of children and youth, including those affected by traumatic experiences. In a trauma-sensitive school, all aspects of the educational environment—from workforce training to engagement with students and families to Read more >>
What Does it Mean to be Anti-Racist? [web resource]
Anti-racism is a term that’s been around for awhile but has been appearing more in conversations lately. It’s the idea that people of all races, but especially white people, need to step up when they see explicit or structural racism. Read more >>
Highly Sensitive Children Thrive in the Right Environment
Sensitive children are keen observers of the world, but tend to get overstimulated. They often live intense inner lives and are highly creative, but they are wary of new situations and of people they don’t know. They also easily intuit Read more >>
How Being Kind to Others Make You Feel Better
You know that being kind to others is good for the recipient (obviously), but did you know that it’s also good for the giver, too? Yep, that’s right. Being kind to others will improve your mental, emotional and physical well-being. Read more >>
Diverse Bookfinder — Identify and Explore Multicultural Picture Books [web resource]
Diverse BookFinder (DBF) is a comprehensive collection of children’s picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC). Read more >>
Healthy Friendships in Adolescence
Positive social connections with people at all stages in life help ensure healthy development, physically, socially, and emotionally. As children transition to adolescence and start to spend less time with parents and siblings, friendships with peers become an increasingly important Read more >>
