So relatable. 🛍️🚗

Same! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

#Culture #Climate

Shout out! 📣 📷 Unknown

JUST ANNOUNCED: All WCSD secretaries, admin support, and administrators (approx. 250 employees) will now be allowed to WORK FROM HOME when school is closed due to winter weather. While this may seem small ... we believe this will be BIG for employee engagement and retention!!

We are preparing for a study of our CharacterStrong middle school program. If you are a middle school educator and looking for free access to CharacterStrong curriculum, professional learning, and other resources, contact me. Please RT

Correlations btw students' perceptions of the relevance & benefits of teaching social-emotional competencies and character strengths AND teacher engagement is .68 and .72, respectively. As teacher engagement goes up, students' perceptions of relevance & benefit go up.

On the plus side, I haven’t seen a single mosquito out this morning

Introverts don't dislike people. They spend plenty of time with others—and enjoy it as much as extraverts. They just seek different kinds of interaction. Extraverts are energized in rooms full of strangers. Introverts prefer small groups of familiar faces. #WorldIntrovertDay

#SELmatters #emotionalregulation #SEL #zonesofregulation #socialemotionallearning

"The biggest mistake they make is equate Tier 1 with the program that they buy." - Kent McIntosh via CharacterStrong #MTSSSummit23 #CharacterStrong characterstrong.com/mtsssummit/

Professional development is defined by its impact. When was the last time you attended/designed/facilitated a transformative PD? What made it so impactful?

Looking to the future of social and emotional learning (#SEL), there are four key pivots that the field must make to continue to advance and meet the needs of students, according to CASEL President and CEO, Dr. Aaliyah A. Samuel (casel.org/blog/state-of-…):

Are we still so focused on learning losses that we have unintentionally reverted to survival states when addressing the behavioral challenges in our schools and districts?

We’ve launched a free, 60-minute online learning experience designed to introduce you and your community to SEL. Discover more about what it is and why it is important. 👉 Take the course: leadingschoolwidesel.casel.org/pages/sign-in-… casel.org/an-introductio…

Love this quote “We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.” - James Clear As we like to say at CharacterStrong: Systems over goals. Too often we set goals in education without creating the systems that enable the attainment of those goals.

Happy #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth! All month long, we will be sharing resources, stories, and ways you can #BeTheDifference every day. Keep an eye on our blog and social media channels throughout May!

Exactly what we say in MentalHealthFirstAid: "You take your car in for a check up, why wouldn't you take your spirit in?" --Rob Lowe #NatCon23 #MHFA

Our hope is that #RandomActsOfKindnessDay inspires the masses to adopt the intentional practice of kindness into their lives daily. Kindness is too important to limit to a “random act” or a single day. Get our kindness resources here: www1.characterstrong.com/kindness_resou…