Watch, Care, Respond
What are Positive and Negative Emotions and Do We Need Both?
Emotion Monitoring Resources:
Yale Child Study Center Mood Meter
CLOSEGAP How are you Feeling
Empathy is the ability to share someone else’s feelings or motivations and to understand their perspective. Affective empathy is the ability to emotionally relate to someone else’s feelings. Cognitive empathy is the ability to imagine what someone else is feeling.
Empathy Worksheets and Resources (Teachers Pay Teachers)
5 Tips for Empathy-Building in Youth (including video game resources)
Make Caring Common Project: Resources for Educators
How to Help your Child's Compassion Grow
How One School is Teaching Empathy After the Election
If You’re Stressed, You Need Empathic Friends
Three SEL Skills You Need to Discuss Race in Classrooms
How to Stay Empathic without Suffering So Much
Three Ways for Schools to Help Kids Cultivate Kindness
How to Listen with Compassion in the Classroom
Building Empathy in Classrooms and Schools
Five Ways to Help Teens Think Beyond Themselves
The HEROES Project: Building Movement Toward Creating an Emotionally Wise World
Behavioral Self-control is the capability to control one’s behaviors or thoughts, particularly in difficult situations, in order to obtain a reward or avoid punishment.
Self-Control Worksheets and Resources (Teachers Pay Teachers)
Breath-Counting Mindfulness Practice for Tweens and Teens
Four Ways to Gain Perspective on Negative Events
Five Tips for Helping Teens Manage Technology
Five Ways to Help Misbehaving Kids
Can Mindfulness Help Kids Learn Self-Control?
Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, and Plan" WOOP builds self-control
Self-Regulation in the Classroom (games and exercises)
Self-Regulated Learning for Academic Success
Emotion Regulation refers to how we manage our emotions and our efforts to control what emotions we feel, when we feel them, and how we experience and express them.
Emotion Regulation Worksheets and Resources (Teachers Pay Teachers)
Yale Child Study Center RULER Program
How to Help Teens Handle the Loss of Proms and Graduation
SEL for Students: Self-Awareness and Self-Management
Nine Things Educators Need to Know About the Brain
Four Lessons from “Inside Out” (the movie) to Discuss with Kids
How to Help Teenagers Manage Risk
Nine Tips for Teaching Emotional Regulation (Improve Classroom Behavior at Same Time)
Zones of Regulation® /Emotional Regulation Activities
30 Games and Activities for Self-Regulation
Universal, Tier 1, wellness screening informs school-site care teams about its students' mental wellness... AND... very importantly, it provides information about ALL students' life satisfaction and emotional wellbeing... which, in turn, provides guidance about needed prevention and intervention services. This section offers information for school-site care coordination teams as they care for their children.