Family Activities
Parents, guardians, and caregivers are key contributors to children to soaring high! Help your children build emotional and social skills that will strengthen them for a lifetime with these fun, easy-to-use activities.
Family Activity
Responsible Decision-Making; Relationship Skills; Self-Management
Community Contributions
Community Contributions
As a family, observe, appreciate, and contribute to your community in a positive way! Families are tasked to explore their community, brainstorm ways that they could give back and ultimately, work together to create a goal to make a difference in their community.
Family Activity
Self-Awareness; Social Awareness
Who Are We?
Who Are We?
In this activity, your family will brainstorm what makes each person—as well as your whole family—unique. You will then create and share a poem that showcases your family identity!
Family Activity
SELF-AWARENESS; SOCIAL AWARENESS; RELATIONSHIP SKILLS
In Your Shoes
In Your Shoes
The activity provides an opportunity for your family to reflect on the life changes you have experienced due to COVID-19 and consider how all family members have been affected in both similar and different ways.
Family Activity
SELF-MANAGEMENT; RESPONSIBLE DECISION-MAKING; SOCIAL AWARENESS; RELATIONSHIP SKILLS
The Family Diner
The Family Diner
As a family, work together to transform a family meal into a special experience at your very own “restaurant”! Working together as a team, your family will explore how managing emotions, doing your best to understand others, and making positive decisions are all important parts of being a good team member.
Family Activity
Self-Management; Responsible Decision-Making
Zen Zone Family Activity
Zen Zone Family Activity
As a family, talk about what you do when you feel angry, upset, sad, frustrated, or other strong emotions and how you use self-management and responsible decision-making to keep your emotions in check.
Family Activity
Self-Awareness; Self-Management; Responsible Decision-Making; Social Awareness; Relationship Skills
Dinner Discussion Family Activity
Dinner Discussion Family Activity
Ignite family conversation by bringing provided discussion starters to your next family meal. As a family, take turns selecting and reading aloud your discussion starter and share your thoughts, answers and experiences.
Soar with us as we introduce students to the key pillars of emotional intelligence through the eyes of their peers with SEL Skills for the Classroom and Beyond.
Learn from leading social and emotional learning (SEL) experts how weaving SEL skills throughout your class day can boost achievement, reduce discipline issues, and prepare your students for bright futures.
Why Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)?
SEL prepared students to succeed in future careers! A bipartisan working group of experts recommends teaching SEL competencies as critically important for the long-term success of all students in today's economy.
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research & the Brookings Institution, 2015
