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Creating brave spaces for all adults and students is so important. In sport, a huddle is an action of a team gathering together, usually in a tight circle, to strategize, motivate or celebrate. Similarly before or after an event a huddle may take place to congratulate one another for the team's success, or to commiserate a defeat. The term "huddle" can be used as a verb as in "huddling up."


Here are some ways you can allow everyone to enter the conversation during whole group sessions:

1. Share about a time you were pulled over by law enforcement. Briefly share your story include whether or not you received a ticket. Share how you communicated with the officer. Did you laugh or cry. Share why having good communication skills are important. 2. Share your favorite comfort food. Who cooks it best? Share why learning new skills is important. 3. Share the name of your favorite team. Share favorite team win. Share similarities and differences between a winning sports team and school team. (5 dysfunctions of a team) 4. Share a time you were interviewed on TV. Local or out of town. Share why this was a memorable moment. Share ways you can allow your stidents to shine. 5. Share in the chat your favorite quote, song lyrics or poem. Share why this inspires you to be great. 6. Share your favorite celebration. Share your memories and thoughts. 7. Let’s hav a chat box dance off. Share your dancing GIF in the chat box. 8. Being thankful has benefits for you and the people you are around. It creates a sense of appreciation and willingness to grow. In the chat share one reason why you are grateful. 9. It is so important to tell your colleagues thank you. Write a thank you note to a faculty or staff member. In the chat share one thank you and include a colleague name. 10. Share a positive affirmation for your students today. 11. Share your favorite movie. Who is your favorite character. Share similarities between you and your favorite character. 12. Share the last concert you attended virtual or person. Share your favorite memory. 13. Enter your responses in the chat box. I'm looking for a chat box response from each of you. 14. Share about a time you were pulled over by law enforcement. Briefly share your story include whether or not you received a ticket. Share how you communicated with the officer. Did you laugh or cry. Share why having good communication skills are important. 15. Share your favorite comfort food. Who cooks it best? Share why learning new skills is important. 16. Share the name of your favorite team. Share favorite team win. Share similarities and differences between a winning sports team and school team. (5 dysfunctions of a team) 17. Share a time you were interviewed on TV. Local or out of town. Share why this was a memorable moment. Share ways you can allow your stidents to shine. 18. Share in the chat your favorite quote, song lyrics or poem. Share why this inspires you to be great. 19. Share your favorite celebration. Share your memories and thoughts. 20.. Let’s hav a chat box dance off. Share your dancing GIF in the chat box. 21. Being thankful has benefits for you and the people you are around. It creates a sense of appreciation and willingness to grow. In the chat share one reason why you are grateful. 22. It is so important to tell your colleagues thank you. Write a thank you note to a faculty or staff member. In the chat share one thank you and include a colleague name. 23. Share a positive affirmation for your students today. 24.. Share your favorite movie. Who is your favorite character. Share similarities between you and your favorite character. 25. Share the last concert you attended virtual or person. Share your favorite memory.


26. Post your pet picture in the chat.


27, Share

Monday Motivation

Tuesday Tasteful Selfie

Wednesday Wisdom

Thursday Throwback Thursday Picture

Friday Self Care Weekend Plans


28. If you choose 2 people to zoom with who would it be? & why?


29 Who was your favorite childhood teacher? Why? Share in the chat.


30.If you had a chance to invent anything what would it be? Share in the chat.


31 If you could create a menu item for McDonald's. What would it be and what would your slogan be. Share in b the chat box.


32. Share your favorite landscape photo.


33. Share your favorite celebration phone.


34, Share a thank you note. Include the person's name.


35. Share ways you like to relax and reset





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Adults in our organizations are experiencing life differently. Adult SEL is the process of helping educators build their expertise and skills to lead social and emotional learning initiatives. It also involves cultivating adults' own social and emotional competencies.


There are many streams of thoughts on what constitutes adult SEL. Some examples include:

- the ability to positively model prosocial behaviors, label emotions, and demonstrate empathy, positive relationships, social awareness, and self-awareness to students.

- Adult self care practices to help educators cope with stress and manage their emotions.

- Environmental supports and leadership investment to allow educators to cultivate and practice their own SEL skills while feeling supported, empowered, and valued.


SEL tactics and strategies that you- as a district elder, school leader, educator, partner in education or staff member - can use on a daily basis.


1. Continuously build expertise on SEL (lots of new research)

2. Use staff meetings or PLC's to create shared agreement around adult SEL while also prioritizing relationship building.

3. Create initiatives - such as peer mentorship programs - that provide safe spaces for educators to practice modeling SEL skills


Click the links below to increase your knowledge level.


Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources for Staff

SEL Check-In Resources

Social Emotional Learning Articles/Resources

SEL Elementary Websites

SEL Secondary Websites


SEL School Counseling Websites

Social Emotional Learning Books

  • Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers with Pete Hall

  • Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation, Kristin Van Marter Souers, Pete Hall, et al.

  • Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum -- An RTI Approach for Nurturing Essential Life Skills (Transform Your Differentiated Instruction, Assessment, and Behavior-Management Strategies), Chris Weber

  • Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes., Jimmy Casas

  • Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom, Heather T. Forbes

  • Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, Violence and Chronic Stress, Debbie Zacarian, Lourdes Alvaraez-Ortiz, and Judie Hayes

  • All Learning is Social and Emotional: The Hidden Curriculum

  • The Formative Five: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs, Thomas R. Hoerr

  • The Morning Meeting Book, Roxann Kriete, and Carole Davis

  • Taking Social-Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff, Thomas R. Hoerr

  • Teaching to Empower: Taking Action to Foster Student Agency, Self-Confidence, and Collaboration, Debbie Zacarian and Michael Silverstone

  • Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm, Hamish Brewer

  • Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management, Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, et al.

  • Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice, Nathan Maynard, and Brad Weinstein

Social Emotional Learning PD

Thank you for engaging and inspiring others to engage.


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