Ouisi Cards

Ouisi cards promote social and emotional learning by encouraging individuals to explore their feelings and express emotions through visual storytelling and meaningful conversations.

UNEARTHING JOY: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction

Gholdy Muhammad

In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit―joy―to her groundbreaking instructional model. She defines joy as more than celebration and happiness, but also as wellness, beauty, healing, and justice for oneself and across humanity. She shows how teaching from cultural and historical realities can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and-indeed-joy for all students, giving them a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world. Dr. Muhammad's wise implementation advice is paired with model lessons and assessment tools that span subjects and grade levels.

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

Everyone is talking about this book by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness and investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how “play-based childhood” has evolved to “phone-based childhood” and offers four simple rules for parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments to restore a more humane childhood. No matter what your “position” is about the role of devices and technology in schools, homes, and childhood, this book is sure to spark a lively discussion.

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

Jennifer Breheny Wallace

There are many books on “hustle culture” and this one is written for parents and schools. “Thoughtfully, expertly and, without judgment, Wallace guides readers through the stressful terrain of our achievement culture and offers a more emotionally intelligent route forward.” –Robin Stern, Ph.D, Co-founder and Associate Director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

The Emotionary: A Dictionary of Words That Don't Exist for Feelings That Do

Eden Sher

A dictionary of words that don't exist for feelings that do written by The Middle actress Eden Sher and illustrated by acclaimed graphic novelist Julia Wertz.

The Grand Hotel of Feelings

Lidia Brankovic

A delightfully imaginative picture book that is both a fun read-aloud and also a great way to engage children in conversations about managing emotions. Welcome to the Grand Hotel of Feelings, where all kinds of feelings come and stay. Every guest has unique needs.

Sonia and the Super-Duper Disaster

Rachel Funez

When Sonia forgets Mom's birthday, she's determined to whip up a super surprise and become Mom's hero. But her ADHD foils her best-laid plans, and her anxiety multiplies as the chaos grows. Sonia has to use all her coping skills to find a new recipe for success and become her own superhero

The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us

Daniel H. Pink

Based in part on his own World Regret Survey, which collated more than 16,000 regrets from people in 105 countries, Daniel Pink employs a combination of social psychology and anecdotes to dismantle the notion of 'no regrets'. Training his insight and wit on an often-overlooked subject, he explains how reflecting upon what might have been can help us live more happily, productively and purposefully

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking

Humans Who Teach: A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools

Shamari Reid

Humans Who Teach invites readers to explore the complicated humanity of those who teach, with a focus on how we have been socialized to accept the status quo, our very real fears in disrupting the status quo, and how we can rely on our human capacity to love to engage in teaching for social justice even in the presence of fear.

The Lost Words

Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris

In 2007, the Oxford Junior Dictionary dropped around 40 nature-related words like acorn, heron, and otter, replacing them with terms like blog, broadband, and voice-mail. This shift, reflecting a move from the natural to the virtual, was seen as a symbol of the growing disconnect between children and nature. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris set out to make a “spell book” that will conjure back twenty of these lost words, and the beings they name, from acorn to wren. By the magic of word and paint, they sought to summon these words again into the voices, stories, and dreams of children and adults alike, and to celebrate the wonder and importance of everyday nature

Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout: Tools to Help You Heal and Recharge When You're Wrung Out by Stress

Kristin Neff, Christopher Germer

Each chapter in this engaging book offers an empathic story of someone stretched to their limits and an easily digestible bite of self-compassion that culminates in a simple anti-burnout tool based on MSC practices. Learn quick and powerful ways to recharge your batteries, de-stress, and, above all, be kind to yourself--so you can be there for others.

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible

Game Face

Shari Green

It takes courage to ask for help, but Jonah starts to realize that his team goes beyond the people who lace up their skates with him every week, and maybe it’s okay to look for support on and off the ice. From the adrenaline rush of sudden-death overtime to the weight of worrying about letting your teammates ― and yourself ― down, this novel in verse will hook readers from the first line.

It Won't Ever Be the Same: A Teen's Guide to Grief and Grieving

Korie Leigh

Whether teens are in the midst of their first grief experience or have experienced grief before, It Won't Ever Be the Same is designed to support them. Reflections, analogies, and suggested activities within the pages guide teens in working through and making sense of their personal and complex grief experiences, and words and artwork from other grieving teens help them feel less alone and more connected

Happy Birthday to Me

Thao Lam

How does it feel to turn a year older? A child runs through a spectrum of emotions on the best day of the year, their birthday!

Hello, Beech Tree!

Rasha Hamid

Rasha Hamid, author of How to Bird, returns with a new story that taps into the power of nature to connect and inspire children wherever they live. Incorporating creative expression, collaboration, and environmental conservation, Hello, Beech Tree! is a lyrical story that highlights student-directed community action

The Big Squeeze

Molly Harris

The little sponge has a BIG job. She washes and mops and scrubs away all the messes in the kitchen. But what happens when the mess gets TOO BIG and she just CAN’T clean anymore? Find out how far friendship, self-care, and a BIIIIIIIG squeeze can go in one sponge’s charming battle against total burnout

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus

#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD • Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love