Six Seconds: Emotional Intelligence Network
This organization is committed to helping people improve emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to tune in, connect, and respond. The organization offers training and tools to measure and improve EQ. Six Seconds The Emotional Intelligence Network offers measurement tools, applications, games, and organizational metrics to better understand emotional strengths and weaknesses. Of interest is the The… Read More ›
School-Family Partnership Strategies to Enhance Children’s Social, Emotional, and Academic Growth
This article provides an overview of five essential social emotional (SEL) competencies. The authors assert the importance of family-school partnerships in the development of a positive culture of learning. Whether social or academic, students’ skills grow when they are supported and reinforced both at home and at school. This article presents ways schools can involve… Read More ›
American School Counselors Association
This organization, the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), represents professional school counselors in all school settings from elementary to college campuses. ASCA focuses on providing professional development, enhancing school counseling programs and researching effective school counseling practices. The website includes Position Statements on a variety of topics relevant to counselors. The site provides many resources for… Read More ›
Education World Counseling Corner
This section of the Education World website is designed for counselors. The Counselors Corner includes links to articles and additional tools and resources on topics important to the work of counselors, including academic development, career and college, assessments, and counseling techniques. Source Organization: Education World Visit the Resource
ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success: K-12 College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Every Student
This set of standards from the American School Counselors Association describes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes students need to achieve academic success, college and career readiness, and social/emotional development. The standards draw from a wide array of educational research, best practices, and existing standards. The 35 standards are divided into mindsets and behaviors counselors should… Read More ›
The Librarians Active Learning Institute at Dartmouth College
The Librarians Active Learning Institute (LALI) is a two-day institute held yearly at Dartmouth College. The institute works to help teaching librarians develop and refine their skills as learner-centered teachers, instructional designers, and collaborators. Participants spend two days exploring evidence-based practices that maximize student learning, and they come away with new approaches and ideas to… Read More ›
Instructional Strategies for Library and Information Professionals
This online course was designed as a graduate course offered at Indiana University-Indianapolis, but all of the online videos and class materials are available free to anyone wishing to learn more about information inquiry and learner-centered instructional strategies. The course is divided into 15 sessions. Each session includes a 15- to 20-minute recorded presentation and… Read More ›
American Association of School Librarians
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is the only national professional membership organization focused on school librarians and the school library community. AASL has more than 7,000 members and serves school librarians in the United States, Canada, and around the world. The website includes materials to facilitate school library program advocacy and research on the importance of… Read More ›
21st-Century Libraries: The Learning Commons
This article describes the shift in the role of libraries in the 21st century and the corresponding shift in the design and use of the physical library space. With increasing access to technology in schools, students no longer need the library simply as an archive of information. Instead, libraries can become spaces that encourage participatory,… Read More ›
Engaging Students: What I Learned Along the Way
In this article a veteran educator shares insights about the importance of creating a positive classroom culture. The author encourages novice teachers to work to understand students’ perspectives to build relationships and foster engagement and learning. She asserts that through knowing students well educators can personalize the classroom experience and reflect on classroom activity to increase student… Read More ›
Finding the Right Fit: 6 Things to Look For in Districts Ripe for Community Engagement
When the Nellie Mae Education Foundation launched its regional school-community engagement initiative in July 2014, we made an important decision: instead of selecting districts through a traditional request-for-proposals (RFP) process, we developed—in collaboration with the Great Schools Partnership, our intermediary partner—a comprehensive “engagement process” that entails a series of conversations, interviews, and in-person meetings with… Read More ›
Smithsonian Learning Lab
The Smithsonian Learning Lab is an interactive website for the discovery and creative use of the Smithsonian’s digital collections and tools – more than one million images, videos, texts, audio recordings, and activities. The Learning Lab invites users to explore interests, discover new ideas and knowledge, and create personalized collections and resources. Source Organization: Smithsonian Learning… Read More ›