Key Points Back to top When students take a field trip in their own city, it can be a learning experience in more ways than one—especially when they have the opportunity to design the outing themselves. Every year, Harlem Academy’s middle school unit, “Explore,” challenges students to create their own day-long field trip in New […]| CASEL
Key Points Back to top Anyone who’s done student theater knows the worst part: that fateful moment when the cast list goes up, and you have to walk up—in public —to see if you got your dream role. Or any role. There, in front of everyone, for all to see, and for all to see […]| CASEL
Key Points Back to top I recently retired from the public school system in Texas after 26 years as a high school social studies classroom teacher. Throughout my time in the classroom, I experienced the tremendous value of social and emotional strategies, and employed them even before there was a common language or framework for […]| CASEL