Do you feel EMPOWERED in your classroom? Woah, that's a loaded question, right? Well, that's what this 30 minute mini-workshop teaches us. It was originally given live on Facebook to help teachers understand how they can effectively empower themselves.  If you missed...

How exciting to hear from my own friends and colleagues at my school when they find success and JOY after trying out some of my SEAL ideas!  This happened just about a week ago when, after watching the Facebook Live focusing on Friendly Friday, my friend,...

NEW! Let me read this article TO you!   Click the play button below or follow the link to SoundCloud and listen in!  There are 3 main things you need to remember if you want to be a SEAL Teacher.  Do you know what it means to be a SEAL Teacher? Teacher...

While we may be teaching remotely in the next few weeks due to the Coronavirus, it will still be important to sooth our students' anxiety - maybe even more important!  As we transition to remote teaching and learning, connecting with and assisting our students will be...

Bulletin boards!  Maybe you love 'em... Maybe you hate 'em...  But if you are a teacher or you work in a school, you probably have had to make a few. Now, there are many ways you can go about creating and designing these wall attractions and so many ideas out there on...

For the last two months, my class has been doing something special each Friday: Friendly Fridays.  These are small activities that build on Social Relationships between classmates.  In the past they have made notes and pictures for each other and practiced writing and...

My students LOVE Friendly Fridays™! What are they?  They are a consistent time during our week when we can focus on SEAL (Social-Emotional Artistic Learning).  We create, we share and we work on our social-awareness and relationship skills. Today, I'm sharing 3...

As with any method you adopt or course you take, you want to make sure it is worth your time, energy and effort.  I get it!  I'm a practical girl and if what I'm doing isn't really helping me personally or professionally, then I don't really want to spend the time on...