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Moving to Learn: The Embodied Teen through Social-Emotional Learning

April 19, 2025 – 11:06 am

Judy Duren, Exceptional Children, Mallard Creek High School

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Synopsis: This curriculum unit will make a significant contribution to educators seeking strategies that contribute to the well-being of their students. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has made strengthening mental health support and resources a priority for school systems throughout the country and should not be underestimated. In this unit, students will focus on body-mind awareness skills and strategies that will embody lifelong social-emotional learning (SEL) skills through movement and expression. Students will develop the five pillars of social-emotional learning: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making through engagement and movement in and out of the classroom. In addition, this unit will support teachers in restoring balance to the classroom through design and structure. As I have utilized SEL strategies in the classroom with my students we have begun to build stronger relationships through trust.

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2022 Vol 4: What is Identity?

How Has COVID Affected Me?

April 19, 2025 – 9:47 am

Amy Stonehouse, English as a Second Language, North Mecklenburg High School

Curriculum Unit (PDF)

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Synopsis: In this curriculum unit, I will provide students with the opportunity to reflect on how COVID has changed them because it is clear in the work that they complete and the behaviors in class. Over the past two years, we have gone from in-person, normal school days, to virtual learning, to hybrid learning, and back to in-person, albeit far from normal. We would be naive to think that this drastic shift in learning has not changed our students and how they see themselves. I’ve learned a great deal about myself through the process. I have learned that virtual teaching is not one of my talents. I’m willing to be that my students have discovered similar things about themselves.

My unit will focus on self-reflection and discovery, from who my students were before the pandemic and how they have changed. I plan on incorporating a personality test to help students discover characteristics about themselves that they may not have thought about before COVID. I will also incorporate journaling and time of reflection throughout the unit.