Season 3 Featured Episode
Season 3
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Sarah Lagrotteria is the Chief Education Officer at Just Bloom School. She offers her narrative-based workshops privately through Just Bloom and via the Executive Education program at the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
1:20 - An overview
5:47 - Social and emotional benefits as a result of an improvement in creativity?
8:17 - What are good strategies when working with kids?
12:50 - How did the military take this introduction to said strategies?
20:50 How can this can help teachers and educators?
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Diane Mondoro is a CTE Coordinator/Training and Implementation Specialist.
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4:15 - Considerations of alternative pathways in education
6:35 - As high school seniors approach graduation, how can we help them prepare for the challenges ahead?
12:22 - How can parents and educators collaborate to support high school students in developing long-lasting social-emotional skills?
17:40 - How can social-emotional learning help high school students develop the resilience and adaptability they need to flourish?
21:00 - Self reflection & growth
25:30 - Final parting words
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Jim Vetter is a member of the leadership team at SEL4US and the Executive Director at SEL4MA, in addition to being the Associate Director of Health and Technology at the Education Development Center, Inc.
Fast forward to these points to hear:
1:10 - Misinformation regarding SEL
4:04 - Helpful resources for SEL fact versus fiction
10:30 How to find like-minded individuals and community
11:20 - The role of teachers and parents
15:17 - How to effectively advocate for SEL
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Dr. Julian Reed is the founder of ActivatEd and Walkabouts. In this episode, Julian and Anna-Lisa discuss the link between movement, and learning and how that relates to the Theory of Constructive Emotion. Fast forward to these points to hear:
2:40 - Physical activity and cognition
3:50 - Link between movement and development of social-emotional skills
5:50 - High levels of fitness impact with children
8:28 - Recess and behavior
14:50- Recommendation for teachers to get more physical activity into the classroom
21:43 - Takeaway points for physical activity within the classroom
Season 2
Season 2 builds off the topic of classroom reentry post-COVID shutdowns and moves on to the concept of integration. Integration of SEL, mental wellness, playfulness, educator support, justice and belonging, and much more.
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Join us for this special video episode of Social Emotional Us as Anna-Lisa and co-author Melissa Ragan discuss their new book, The Social Emotional Classroom: A New Way to Nurture Students and Understand the Brain. Sold online on Amazon, Barns & Noble, BAM, and Hudson Booksellers! Fast forward to these points to hear:
1:55 What is the central idea discussed in the book?
7:38 Who wrote what parts of the book?
12:53 What is it like working with a publisher?
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Teacher and SEL coordinator, Emily Case works at an Indigenous school in Miramichi, New Brunswick. In this episode, Emily and Anna-Lisa discuss adapting curriculum and SEL strategies into Indigenous classrooms. Fast forward to these points to hear:
• 2:01 Anna-Lisa's experiences teaching in First Nations schools
• 6:06 Lessons to share with other school leaders
• 11:10 Emily's tips to add more Indigenous resources to your classroom
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In this episode of Social Emotional Us, Julie Jones and Jed Deurybury, co-authors of The Playful Classroom, join us from their local coffee shop, which is their favorite place to play! Jed, Julie, and Anna-Lisa discuss the positive impacts of play in education and how play isn’t something that’s limited to early childhood. Fast forward to these points to hear:
4:20 Connections between play and SEL
5:20 Importance of recess during the school day
18:48 The eight different play personalities
Buy their book on Amazon or wherever you buy your books
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In this episode of Social Emotional Us, we are joined by Michael Horn, author of From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)Creating School for Every Child. Michael and Anna-Lisa discuss how to create education for every child.
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In this episode of Social Emotional Us, Dr. Tehia Starker Glass & Dr. Lucritia Berry join Anna-Lisa to discuss how educators can teach against biases and help students thrive. Dr. Starker Glass and Dr. Berry co-wrote Teaching for Justice and Belonging: A Journey for Educators & Parents, publishing this summer. Fast forward to these points to hear:
4:30 Dr. Glass & Dr. Berry’s recommendations for teachers
10:28 How teachers can support teaching for justice
23:30 Tips for our school districts can create more inclusive classrooms
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In this episode of Social Emotional Us, we are joined by Dan Ryder, author of Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom. Dan and Anna-Lisa discuss integrating SEL into different subject areas besides the stereotypical classes.
Fast forward to these points to hear:
6:45 How to integrate creativity
10:45 Why should school districts integrate creativity into their curriculum
23:00 The heart of educationDan Ryder is a veteran classroom educator and learning facilitator at CRCS Overman, a grades 7-12 project-based, student-centered public charter school in downtown Skowhegan, Maine.
In addition to his daily classroom practice, he serves as a design, development and delivery consultant for the US Department of State's Office of English Language Programs, writing PANELS & PERSPECTIVES: Creating Comics in the EFL Classroom with editor, Jacquie Gardy, and artist, Josh Alves. He also co-authored INTENTION: Critical Creativity in the Classroom with his good friend, Amy Burvall, and performs improv comedy with his team, Teachers Lounge Mafia.
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Improving Educator Support Structures featuring Dr. Lorea Martínez
In this episode of Social Emotional Us, Dr. Lorea Martinez, author of HEART in Mind, talks with Anna-Lisa about overdue improvements to educator support systems and how adult SEL can help teachers overcome burnout.
Fast forward to these points to hear:
1:45 Teacher burnout
5:45 How to best support teachers
15:45 Teacher support and staff support
17:30 How teachers can bring these topics into their schoolOnline Course
Growing Your HEART Skills is a 7-module online course that teaches the HEART in Mind model, a proven and highly effective framework that can help educators tap into the wisdom of their emotions, build strong SEL skills, and begin reclaiming their JOY as educators. Includes a pre and post self-assessment of SEL skills and a certificate of completion. To learn more and sign up, click here.
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In this episode of Social Emotional Us, Anna-Lisa Mackey and Keith Anderson discuss what makes an education space safe, healthy, and inclusive. Keith, the founder of Worth Living Co., also discusses the importance of destigmatizing mental health issues in the workplace.
Fast forward to these points to hear:
2:30 Keith’s Experience with Depression
6:10 Destigmatizing Mental Health Issues
9:30 Mental Health and School Shootings
ABOUT THE PODCAST
Hosted by Anna-Lisa Mackey, M.Ed., author of the Emozi® program and co-author of The Social Emotional Classroom: A New Way to Nurture Students and Understand the Brain.
Social Emotional Us is a podcast about the role that social emotional learning plays in the positive development of students, families, and communities.
Anna-Lisa brings teachers, educational, and thought leaders together to share SEL tips, lessons learned, parent/caregiver perspectives, classroom management ideas, and the successes and challenges of teaching SEL in the modern classroom.
This podcast is essential listening for educators, parents, and anyone interested in improving the lives of children through social emotional learning.
Season 1
The first season focuses on overcoming the effects of social isolation and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic before going back to the classroom.
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"A goal without a plan is just a wish." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In the final episode of the season Anna-Lisa talks with Dr. Heather Cruz about how to set goals when we lack motivation. Dr. Heather Cruz is the Assistant Superintendent for Educational Services for the Cartwright School District in Phoenix, Arizona. The district serves well over 15,000 pre-K-8 students and 900 teachers and is a majority-minority district with an SES approaching 90%. Dr. Cruz brings 30 years of education experience serving as a teacher, administrator, assistant superintendent, deputy superintendent, and associate superintendent at the state level. She is also the Chief Academic Officer and Co-Founder of Ribbit Learning Company. Cruz is an ongoing advocate for district public schools where she works passionately to ensure that all students achieve success.
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Understanding other people's perspective is critical to developing positive interpersonal relationships and prosocial behavior. When we are able to see something from another's point of view, we are more likely to be empathetic, experience gratitude, and find common ground. Anna-Lisa chats with Natalie Rose Luna, mother to a middle school daughter, wife, and communications professional about how her perspective has changed over time and influenced her decision to run for the school board.
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Besides the ABCs, teachers are also teaching younger students how to interact in positive social ways, make friends, share, sit during circle time, and more. In this episode Anna-Lisa talks with Head Start teacher Trena Paxton to learn how she creates engagement in the preschool/kindergarten classroom with students that have no classroom experience.
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Relationships are hard for all of us right now as we spent most of last year isolated and learning from home. Whether you spent the lockdown by yourself, with your family, or teaching/learning/working remotely, everyone's social skills are rusty. How are students adjusting to the classroom? What can we take away from this experience for future friendship building? Anna-Lisa chats with behavioral specialist Christina Wainwright about her experience helping students get back to in-person learning.
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As we’ve been navigating through the pandemic, people have experienced a lot of emotions—such as fear and loneliness. As teachers, we know that students act out their emotions differently than adults do. This is one reason that we talk about how generosity and kindness are related to gratitude in our curriculum. Gratitude can be the antidote to fear, greed, loneliness, and a host of complex emotions. In this episode, Anna-Lisa chats with Oren Shahar, a 5th-grade science teacher to learn how he's cultivating and fostering gratitude in his classroom and his life.
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“These unprecedented times” became a meme unto itself over the past few years. Students and teachers juggled daily disruptions while battling strong emotions. Anna-Lisa speaks with high school art teacher Matt Pembleton to learn how he provided a virtual haven for students to express their emotions through art so that they could process them and focus on all the other areas of their lives.
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Living Sculptures: Performance Art in the Classroom
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Join positive psychologist and life coach Andrea Zawaski and Anna-Lisa Mackey as they do a deep dive into the "pandemic state of mind.” How has the pandemic affected us? Are we languishing or flourishing? Andrea and Anna-Lisa discuss ways to bounce back from the pandemic mindset as life begins to come back to a new normal.
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What is positive psychology? (video)
What is coaching? (video)