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  • When You’re Overlooked or Disrespected in Front of Peers

    INTRO: There are few workplace moments more frustrating than being overlooked in front of peers. You’re…

  • Teaching Kids: From ‘What’s Wrong with Me?’ to ‘What Do I Need?’

    Teaching Kids: From ‘What’s Wrong with Me?’ to ‘What Do I Need?’

    This post is written for parents, coaches, and teachers — the adults who show up every…

  • Podcast Episode: SEL Is Not One More Thing—It’s the Thing Underneath Everything

    Podcast Episode: SEL Is Not One More Thing—It’s the Thing Underneath Everything

    Pip: There is a site out there built on the idea that children's stories are not…

  • The Importance of SEL in Youth Sports

    The Importance of SEL in Youth Sports

    Why social-emotional learning belongs on the field, court, track, and in the dugout There is a…

  • This Space Is for the Adults Too

    This Space Is for the Adults Too

    Children are not learning emotional skills in isolation. They are learning them from us. Parents. Teachers.…

  • SEL Does Not Mean Making Children Happy All the Time

    One of the biggest misunderstandings about social-emotional learning is that its purpose is to create children…

  • SEL Is Not One More Thing—It’s the Thing Underneath Everything

    SEL Is Not One More Thing—It’s the Thing Underneath Everything

    Social-emotional learning — SEL — is one of the most researched, most discussed, and most misunderstood…

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