Students spend seven or more hours in school a day. It is unreasonable to expect them to sit quietly throughout their lessons and classwork. When you remove the chairs, you instantly provide freedom of movement. You instantly open up whole
Sarah is a third-grader who has strong math skills but struggles with spelling and reading. She reads at a first-grade level and struggles to write simple sentences with complex words. Sarah is an active child and loves to play the
Mary works hard to provide appropriate services to her 2nd graders in an inclusion general education classroom. She spends most of her lesson planning modifying material and developing personalized resources for specific students. Looking out at her students, she wonders
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence. It provides students with the tools to build confidence, courage, and emotional awareness through play, work, cooperation, and be productive in their studies. During these challenging times, SEL has been a