The past couple of years has seemed like a quiet revolution in education, built on the need to keep education alive for our students and keep some normality in their lives. As ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
So it’s that time of year again when we all sit with family and friends and talk about being thankful for different things. Should it just be once a year with only family or ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
As the 2021-2022 school year begins, we are more aware than ever of the need to support our students with social emotional learning (SEL). But why is it so important that we ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
I’ve been tasked with the job of getting interventions up and running virtually whilst schools are shut again. We use the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) approach for ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
This week, I spent a lot of my Tuesday working with a new student. I had worked extensively with her when she was five and six but it was her birthday on Monday, so now seven ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
The Wallace Foundation along with the RAND corporation conducted a teacher survey in Spring 2019 into the area of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and teachers’ wellbeing. ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
I was on yard duty yesterday and a hula hoop got ‘snatched’ from a first grader who couldn’t cope, floods of tears, not making much sense and a welling up of anger ready to ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
We all had that student who comes in looking disheveled, hungry and not in a learning state of mind. We’ve made all the referrals to everyone we know, to help that child and ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
I could ask a popular question during this time of year, “What are you thankful for?” If you ask me this I would talk about health, family, having enough, surviving COVID-19 so ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford
So you’ve attended some social emotional learning training and there was a big emphasis on the CASEL framework, yet you were unsure what was being talked about. Here is a quick ...
author: Nicola Jones-Ford