2026-27 TeachMeets Coming Soon

All TeachMeets offer:

  • Support and encouragement for you and your teaching practices
  • Practical ideas for nurturing SEL and connection
  • A space for peer-to-peer learning and resource sharing
TeachMeets offer a simple structure to share resources and connect with people around the world who "get it”.

Explore recordings from past TeachMeets to discover practical strategies, fresh ideas, and real experiences shared by fellow educators.

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Building a Restorative Culture in Schools
Special Guest: Emma Liliedahl-Allen

Having recently offered this workshop at the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Conference, we'll explore how proactive and responsive restorative practices in schools can: Foster a deeper sense of belonging across your school community, strengthen safeguarding, enhance wellbeing for all

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From Skills to Belonging: A Whole Community Approach to SEL
Special Guests: Natasha Bhalla & Bill McCarthy

While small gestures of appreciation matter, sustainable impact comes from systems that prioritize belonging, connection, and adult wellbeing, every day of the year. This conversation will highlight practical ways to embed self-awareness, empathy, communication, and thoughtful decision-making into the fabric of your school, so appreciation becomes part of your culture, not just a calendar event.

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Nurturing a Co-Regulated Classroom

Together, we’ll explore how co-regulation supports classrooms where students and educators can learn and teach at their best. We’ll share concrete, experience-based strategies that support emotional steadiness, trust, and conditions for meaningful learning.

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Play with Purpose: SEL in Physical Education

Come discover how physical education and play can be a powerful catalyst for school-wide culture and connection. These strategies go far beyond the gym, offering practical ways for all educators and PE Teachers to integrate movement, build relationships, and boost engagement across classrooms, advisory, recess, and afterschool programs that strengthen schoolwide culture

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Proactive SEL: Equipping Students with Tools before Conflict Arises

Conflict is a natural part of classroom life, but we don’t have to wait for it to erupt before teaching students and educators how to navigate it. We'll share a few simple ways to introduce the language and routines of repair early in the year, while relationships are still taking shape!

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Restorative Practices: A Path to Restoring Connection and Communication
Special Guests: Azra Pathan & Khairah Klein

Join IFSEL for a brief overview of the whole community approach to restorative practices. Hear from Khairah Klein and Azra Pathan as they share real-world examples of restorative practices in action at their schools.

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School-Wide Systems
Special Guest: Adam Elder

How can we thoughtfully weave SEL into school-wide systems - from the playground to hiring practices? Listen to hear powerful portraits of practice from school leaders who are doing just that. Together, we’ll explore the organizing principles, practices, and structures that help build caring relationships and boost the well-being of every community member!

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Staying Human in the Age of AI
Special Guest: Tricia Friedman

Explore how social and emotional learning can help educators keep curiosity, compassion, and human connection at the center of teaching and learning as artificial intelligence reshapes our schools, classrooms, and daily lives.

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What are Restorative Practices? Community, 80/20 Rule, and Academic Success
Special Guests: Rachel George, Jacquie Escher, & Maureen Baylis

Discover how The Bentley School and Western Academy of Beijing are using proactive and responsive Restorative Practices approaches, rooted in empathy, accountability, and repair, to strengthen relationships and culture across their schools..

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