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Supporting SEL During STEM

Supporting SEL During STEM

By Gabrielle DeLoach and Gabriella Hall Social-emotional learning (SEL) often authentically occurs throughout the learning environment during all sorts of learning experiences. It can be explicitly taught during its own focus lesson, but more meaningfully, it can be...
Joy in Teaching

Joy in Teaching

By Gabrielle DeLoach This year has been hard. The kind of hard that only feels recognized as you pass your fellow teachers in the hall and you share a nod of knowing. Right now it’s like being a dough that gets stretched from every direction. Continuing to be pulled...
Enhancing Block Play

Enhancing Block Play

The unit block has been a staple material in American kindergarten and preschool classrooms for well over one hundred years.  In fact, educators from as early as the late 1700’s suggested that play with blocks was valuable for children to experience gravity,...
Introducing Simple Machines: Low-Tech Tools

Introducing Simple Machines: Low-Tech Tools

When we think of technology, tools, and machines, we often think in terms of computers and electric or gas powered machines. Many tools we use in everyday life are low-tech tools called simple machines. Humans have used simple machines for thousands of years! They...