Coronavirus is inflicting trauma on our children. Here’s how schools can help.
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…
May 20, 2022
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 are just various ways that we can…
May 20, 2022
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 relieve stress or increase their performance during…
May 09, 2022
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 learning and continued adaptation to the COVID-19…
May 05, 2022
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 growing up. Perhaps you formed friendships with…
May 01, 2022
May is Mental Health Awareness Month May 1 marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Month. We’ve created a calendar featuring one activity that you can do each day of the month…
April 21, 2022
One reason why schools and districts prioritize social emotional learning is to give students the tools they need to understand who they are, regulate their emotions, build healthy relationships, achieve their goals,…
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…
May is Mental Health Awareness Month May 1 marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Month. We’ve created a calendar featuring one activity that you…
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.…
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…
We’ve all been on a bad team. A team where mistakes are laughed at or shrugged off. “Not my problem.” A team where dropping the…
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…
Students in Texas need social and emotional learning support, not just in early childhood development but throughout their adolescence. Texas has adopted SEL guidelines for…
According to the 2017 Colorado Healthy Kids Survey, 34% of 12th graders reported feeling sad for 2 or more weeks in a row within the…
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…
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…
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…
Summer vacation is a great time to reinforce the social emotional learning done in school at home. Problem solving, community building and self-management are…
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…
Move This World’s curriculum is expanded each year to include new videos and supplementary resources to support students and staff. The expanded content is developed…
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: 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.…
Growing up, I didn’t really understand the power of rituals. Take religion, for example. I never considered myself a particularly religious person. I didn’t attend…