I’m excited to hear more about how this is going! It’s such an important topic and I’m sure those of us in middle school would be curious to see how it’s going. Just curious – has there been any resources or PD made available for teachers? As a specialist teacher, sometimes we get forgotten in these conversations as it centres around…Read more

I love the idea of using the reflection to help build their self awareness – sometimes it really takes them writing it down and reading it back to realize the impact of their words.

Have you thought about doing some spontaneous reflections around interactions that haven’t been brought to you attention and how they navigated those…Read more

This is so amazing! I can also relate with the “is this going to be graded?” questions from students. The approach you have laid out is great. In my classes, I have them do “shout outs” or “put up’s” – it’s more informal but also celebrates growth and being acknowledged by their peers and it’s great to build into the classroom…Read more

You are addressing such an important topic – as a mostly middle school teacher I can tell you that what you’re aiming to do here will have such amazing benefits as your students will get older.

You said you were looking at starting small with finding a pop-up calming room a could times a week – at my previous school one teacher…Read more

I think it would be very interesting to see this being…Read more