Why We Need to Support Social-Emotional Learning for All Our Students! At a recent parent teacher conference a passionate teacher found herself explaining why she dedicates daily instructional time for activities to address topics of social and emotional learning (SEL), with the goal of strengthening her students’ overall emotional health and ability to interact socially […]
By Tom Whitby How do we pair up students to a relevant and meaningful career path, when there are so many choices? In fact oftentimes we pose the question in education about how best to prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist? This challenge to educators to pair students with the best career […]
Did you miss our @edwebnet edWebinar? Not too worry, you can catch the FREE archived copy here… Best Practices for Managing Differently Abled Students in your Inclusion Classroom. Best Practices for a Successful Inclusion Classroom – edWeb About the Presenter. Eleazar “Trey” Vasquez III, is Director of the Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute and […]
“Thank you for the opportunity to pilot use of “Social Express” with our special education students during the 2016/2017 School Year. During the year we had the opportunity to utilize the program in a variety of settings and despite some technological issues on our end, we found the curriculum to be engaging and interesting to […]
“A cross-sectional research design was employed because of the reliance on existing group differentiation (i.e., disability vs. no disability) and the geographic diversity across research locations. This design is beneficial for measuring differences rather than causal changes, which might be found in an experimental study, and is therefore appropriate for phase II product testing.” Read […]
An old friend returns….Marc Zimmerman of The Social Express, and now Teen Career Path and Cool School…great products for special children grown out of a life experience.
Highlights and insights from my personal adventures at the epicenter of edtech. UNPACKING EDTECH | by Mark Gura I’m back from this year’s FETC in Orlando, just a few miles from Florida’s Space Coast. While my colleagues back in the trenches in many parts of the country were shivering and hunkering down to weather a […]
“MANOVA, revealed increases in prosocial behaviors (DMean -.06, t(202) = -2.17, p = .031), decreases in victimization (DMean .12, t(205) = 2.92, p = .004), and increases in academic self-efficacy (DMean -.15, t(206) = -2.80, p = .006) on student self-report measures (3rd through 5th).” Read The Full Report Cool School Poster 2019-04 […]
“Independent Research at the Tier 1 level, pre-post (immediate) comparisons on a social skills rating scale indicated statistically significant differences by groupstudents with disabilities indicated a statistically significant improvement in social skills when the program was used for at least ten weeks (Krach, McCreery, Miller Doss, & Highsmith, 2020).” Read the Full Report
Many children and adults who have difficulty with social interactions and developing and maintaining friendships can benefit from social learning training. Some of these individuals may have a diagnosis such as autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, non-verbal learning disorder, pragmatic language disorder, and/or ADHD, to name a few. There are other individuals with social-emotional challenges who do […]
