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Developing Classroom Values
Article
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My Powerful Hair: A Picture Book
Book - Student
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10 Summer Activities to Help Teens Stay Healthy and Engaged
Article
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Compelling Resources to Support Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in the Library
Article
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The Day the Crayons Quit
Book - Student
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Sometimes I Need
Book - Student
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Supporting Parent and Caregiver Well Being in the Workplace
Article
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Under Pressure
Book - Adult
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Book - Adult
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What Does Peace Feel Like?
Book - Student
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The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us
Book - Adult
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Check-In Slide Show & PDF
Materials, Icebreakers & Games
PDF
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Speaking with Nature
Book - Adult
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My Magic Breath
Book - Student
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The Sunbearer Trials
Book - Adult
Book - Student
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That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
Article
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Educating for Youth Voting & Civic Participation with CIRCLE
Video
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Six Tips on Building a Strong Advisory Program
Article
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Teaching During an Election Season
Article
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The Anxious Generation
Book - Adult
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Breathing Exercise Cards for Kids
Materials, Icebreakers & Games
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A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Book - Student
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Emotions, Learning, and the Brain
Book - Adult
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Why Do Boys Engage in More Risk Taking Than Girls? The Role of Attributions, Beliefs, and Risk Appraisals
Research
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Dream Big, Little One
Book - Student
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Personal Space Invader
Book - Student
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Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain
Book - Adult
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My New Best Friend
Book - Student
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Why Am I Like This?: My Brain Isn't Broken (and Neither Is Yours)
Book - Adult
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The Problem with Problems
Book - Student
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Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout: Tools to Help You Heal and Recharge When You're Wrung Out by Stress
Book - Adult
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Why Not You
Book - Student
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SEL Cast: Restorative Practices in Schools: Building Equity and Belonging - with Motoko Maegawa
IFSEL Podcasts
PDF
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The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Book - Adult
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TableTopics Kids to Go
Materials, Icebreakers & Games
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Teaching During a Tumultuous Election Year
Article
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Positive Discipline for Preschoolers
Book - Adult
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Supporting Parent and Family Engagement to Enhance Students’ Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
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The Empty Pot
Book - Student
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The Recess Queen
Book - Student
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9 Ways To Teach about the Election: A Social Justice Approach
Article
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Health advisory on social media use in adolescence
Article
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Today I Feel Silly
Book - Student
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Social and Emotional Supports for Educators During and After the Pandemic
Research
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Lola Levine is Not Mean!
Book - Student
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The Courage to Teach
Book - Adult
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Stolen Focus
Book - Adult
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Waiting is Not Easy!
Book - Student
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Hundred and Six Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Article
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My Mixed Emotions
Book - Student
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The Poet X
Book - Student
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The Other Side
Book - Student
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Fostering Civil Discourse
PDF
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Someone Like Us: A Novel
Book - Adult
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Developmental relationships and school success: How teachers, parents, and friends affect educational outcomes and what actions students say matter most
Research
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Lessons in Chemistry
Book - Adult
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Writing to Heal
Article
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The Artificial Intelligence Playbook
Book - Adult
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El Deafo
Book - Student
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The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens
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Laughter Boosts Our Mental and Physical Health
Research
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One Love - Couplets (That's Not Love)
Video
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Building Advisory Buy-In
Article
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World Book Day - April 23rd
PDF
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A House for Everyone
Book - Student
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Book - Adult
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Each Kindness
Book - Student
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The Lemonade Hurricane
Book - Student
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What Does It Mean to Be Kind?
Book - Student
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One
Book - Student
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Finding Wild
Book - Student
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The quality and effectiveness of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) intervention studies in Korea
Research
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Are Advisory Groups Essential?
Article
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Social-Emotional Skills for Conflict Resolution
Article
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The Success of Social-Emotional Learning Hinges on Teachers
Research
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Eagle Eye Agency
Materials, Icebreakers & Games
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Invisible Things
Book - Student
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Let's Get Real
Video
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All Work and No Play
Research
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Why We Sleep
Book - Adult
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Zoo Games
Materials, Icebreakers & Games
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Release
Book - Adult
Book - Student
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Reclaiming Possibility
Article
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Holes
Book - Student
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Potential risks of content, features, and functions: The science of how social media affects youth
Research
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Ways to Foster an Inclusive and Autism-Affirming Approach to SEL
Article
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Why Should I Recycle?
Book - Student
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Warriors Don't Cry
Book - Student
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Closing the Year
PDF
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What Is Beautiful?
Book - Adult
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Silver Bullets
Book - Adult
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Teaching Controversial Issues
PDF
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Fatima's Great Outdoors
Book - Student
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Families Are Students’ First SEL Teachers.
Article
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Debunking the Myths about Boys and Emotions
Research
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From a Mountain In Tibet: A Monk’s Journey
Book - Adult
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School Connectedness
Research
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The Social Neuroscience of Education
Article
Research
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A New REALM: IFSEL’s Tips for Distance Learning
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The God of Small Things
Book - Student
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The above links take you to Amazon, but that is just one option. We encourage you to support your independent bookseller or purchase wherever you feel most comfortable.

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