February 01, 2023
This month, we’re celebrating influential Black leaders who have improved social emotional learning opportunities for all students. “True progress is never made by spasms. Real progress is growth. It must begin in…
September 13, 2022
In order to get a new toy pet, Megan works to earn her first shell-owance, and in doing so learns the true value of a sand dollar. Listen and subscribe on your…
September 06, 2022
A mysterious trail of sparkles leads Megan, Joey, and Penelope to new friends, and for Penelope, a new relative! But when it’s time to go home, the three friends have a big…
August 30, 2022
It’s Megan’s first trip to the dentist and she’s nervous. Thankfully, Megan has her friends and her Emogers to help. Listen and subscribe on your favorite podcast platform here. If you like…
August 23, 2022
Mika says her first word and you’ll never guess what it is! Plus, Megan and her friends go on a lagoon school field trip to the museum. Listen and subscribe on your…
August 16, 2022
It’s time for the annual lagoon school play and Megan thinks she should be the lead. But when Suzy tries out for the same part, Megan discovers there’s a lot more to…
This month, we’re celebrating influential Black leaders who have improved social emotional learning opportunities for all students. “True progress is never made by spasms. Real…
A core practice in social emotional learning is to strengthen the mind-body connection, so it makes perfect sense that health and physical education classes heavily…
This piece originally appeared in USA Today on May 19, 2020. COVID-19 will leave a lasting mark. We’re going to need support to heal and grow…
During Women’s History Month, we celebrate women who were Upstanders in their community and truly transformed our schools. Today we’re celebrating Margaret Bancroft, considered the…
As schools continue to move forward into the next phase of pandemic recovery, it is critical that education leaders place equity at the center of…
The focus of K-12 education is to educate, nurture, and prepare students for independence in adulthood. But for a system that exists to serve students,…
All learners are different. Too often, when educators discuss different learning styles they can focus too closely on visual, audio, and kinesthetic modalities. But these…
Test anxiety has often been compared to performance anxiety and can lead to negative behavior in the classroom and students making irresponsible decisions to either…
Classroom instruction has changed drastically over the last 20 years, not to mention the rapid changes that have taken place during the shift to remote…
Relationships don’t just happen out of thin air – they take time! Think back to the relationships you had with your classmates when you were…
It’s no secret that teaching is hard. The teaching profession requires a thick skin, resilience, and determination. Even pre-pandemic, under “normal” conditions, teaching was a…
This piece was originally published in EdWeek Market Brief on March 10, 2021. Last spring, no one knew how much chaos the pandemic would impose…
This article was originally published in EdWeek Market Brief on Nov. 22, 2021. By Move This World Founder & CEO Sara Potler LaHayne — The…
Tough conversations are unavoidable. As adults and inherently social human beings, opportunities for meaningful and complex dialogue present themselves in our daily lives almost constantly.…
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In part one of our article on social emotional learning and effective teamwork, we explored why SEL is the key to highly effective teams and…
When a building has a flaw in its foundation, it doesn’t really matter whether you fix the roof or not. Unless you address the real…
This piece originally appeared in Fast Company on Feb. 3, 2021. At some point in the last 12 months, every parent had the same realization:…
As schools prepare for the 2022-23 school year, the mental health crisis is top of mind for administrators. Students and staff continue to be impacted…
According to the 2015-2017 California Healthy Kids Survey, 3 out of every 10 high school students “appear to suffer from chronic, debilitating sadness or hopelessness.”…
South Carolina has adopted social emotional learning skills for early childhood development, but the most recent results from the High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey…
During SEL Day 2021, we hosted a conversation on Clubhouse about supporting children through grief and loss, featuring our Founder & CEO Sara Potler LaHayne…
How often a day do you check your phone? Is it Instagram notifying you that you have 250 likes on your selfie rather than 249?…
October 10th is World Mental Health Day, a day meant to raise awareness and help advocate against the social stigma that is often associated around…
Photograph by Lynn Johnson This is part four of our series on Brain Health based off an interview with Jeremy Richman, a neuro-pharmacologist who runs…
Photograph by Lynn Johnson This is part three of our series on Brain Health based off an interview with Jeremy Richman, a neuro-pharmacologist who runs…
What is parent engagement? There is a wide spectrum of ways that parents can engage with their child’s education. Without even stepping foot in the…
Move This World is excited to partner with Sparkler Learning to support the Big Heart World initiative to keep young learners engaged all summer! Big…
During SEL Day 2021, we hosted a conversation on Clubhouse about supporting children through grief and loss, featuring our Founder & CEO Sara Potler LaHayne…
Research has shown that an SEL Toolkit has overwhelmingly demonstrated that social emotional learning and parent engagement in a child’s education and school community has…
With school out for summer vacation, students have hours of free time on their hands everyday – and some parents may be wondering how to…
After over 2 years of a global pandemic, the continued national and global tension continuing to escalate, and economic strain impacting the livelihood of families…
Move This World named as a Finalist for The EdTech Trendsetter Award Sara Potler LaHayne, Founder & CEO of Move This World, named as a…
We’re excited to announce that Move This World was named a winner of two Tech & Learning Best of 2021 Awards of Excellence! Our programs…
Move This World partners with SEL assessment provider Aperture Education to give Aperture’s customers a sampling of our evidence-based, engaging multimedia experiences that help develop…
We’re excited to announce that Move This World has been named a Tech & Learning Primary (K-6) and Secondary (6-12) Winner at the 2021 Awards of Excellence…
Distinctive Schools have made the social-emotional needs of their students and staff their top priority. It’s highlighted in their Strategic Plan, and it’s visible daily…
In our SEL Ambassador Spotlight Series, we’re highlighting the incredible work of educators and education leaders who prioritize, implement, and advocate for social emotional learning…
Our partners at IDEA Public Schools are integrating SEL throughout the network, prioritizing social emotional learning for students‘ grades PreK-12 as well as educators and…
This article was originally published in ABC 7 News/WJLA-TV on November 18, 2019. — Teachers at Indian Head Elementary want every child to feel like…
In this series, we’ll be spotlighting SEL Ambassadors from the Move This World community. We are excited to introduce to you Principal Jessica Drzewucki from…
To my Move This World Friends, Family, and Partners: When we send our students off to their places of learning, we expect them to feel…
To my Move This World Friends, Family and Partners: Sara and the girls are looking ahead to big things in 2022 I’ve never been more…
To my Move This World Friends, Family, and Partners: For the second time in a week, our country is grieving a mass shooting. When combined…
To my Move This World Friends, Family and Partners: Despite the start of a new year, it seems that we will be continuing on the…
The word “judgement” is prevalent in schools, especially high schools. As young adults grow into themselves, every quirk can become subject of teasing or questioning.…