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Participants will learn how to actively engage students in mindful, relaxation through hands-on creative projects using a variety of tools. They will use a range of creative tools from classic approaches in music and theater like singing and improv with digital twists with Mote, Twitter, and Jamboard to free, online visual art apps such as Drawerings that allow students to create digital mandalas and tools like Adobe Express that allow students to create posters and videos about their mindful exercises to share with peers. In addition, we will also explore emerging technology such as AI and AR with SEL. We'll use the CASEL social-emotional learning framework as our guide and share the projects we create together as models that can be duplicated as evidence of success.
7 min: Introduction and poll on social-emotional learning knowledge/use
8 min: Social Emotional Learning models, data, and important elements for school
10 min: Mindful Meditative Drawing and Doodling project (traditional and digital)
5 min: Taking Creative Risks Together: Group singing project
8 min: The Gratitude Project: creating posters, cards, and reminders of gratitude
10 min: Emerging technology with Mindfulness: AI, AR & Gamification projects
5 min: Creative Challenges and collaboration projects
CASEL- https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-does-the-research-say/
Edutopia- https://www.edutopia.org/sel-research-learning-outcomes
Safe Schools/Healthy Students-https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505369.pdf