Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) for Everyone!

“One day . . . or day one.” -- Anonymous December: Cherokee Month of the Snow Moon SEL: #4 Relationship Skills                     Digital Learner: #4 Creative Communicator   A kind word to one in trouble is often like a switch in a railroad track. . .an inch between wreck and smooth sailing.                                                                                                                                                             – Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) When we read a story to a child, it is a gift of time ...

  “One day . . . or day one.” -- Anonymous December: Cherokee Month of the Snow Moon SEL:  #2 Social-Awareness SEL:   #5 Responsible Decision Making      Digital Learner:  #6 Computational Thinker Moving is disorienting to me. After I discovered one-half of my land had been sold, at age 67 (my retirement), my attorney advised me to sell it and move before winter set in, or spend $60,000 and the next five years in a lawsuit. I moved. My outdoor cat became an indoor cat in my new apartment. He was not happy with me, nevertheless, he began to explore his new digs. I was in the living room one evening minding my own business. Bam! Bam! Bam! What on earth? I had no screen doors or blinds to blow and it wasn’t windy. Nothing in the garage. I finally went upstairs and the cat was trapped in the cabinet under the bathroom sink. I opened the door, he looked at me with total disgust, and stomped away, tail held high. I bungee-corded all of th...