Leaps is particularly well-aligned with the CASEL core competencies, in fact our tools extend even beyond this...
Understanding Psychosocial
How is Leaps different from other K12 resources?
Leaps is different because it is born out of psychosocial remediation training. We are sometimes called an SEL...
Making Time For Other People
There are just too many people in this world for anyone to have to feel alone. Maybe we can take being nice, add listening to it and make loneliness a lot less consuming.
SEL is Behavior – Connecting the Dots
For some reason when people talk about behaviors and behavior programming at school, there is an automatic default to exceptional and alternative education. It is as if the word behavior is a pejorative that means “anywhere but the classroom”. But what is really interesting is that, while behavior solutions, behavior programming and behavior modification are getting relegated to the specialties within the educational array, we are seeing a mainstreaming of social and emotional learning (SEL).
Back to Basics: Teaching the Important Lessons
Kids who get in trouble do so again and again. Why is it that the same kids seem to always be in trouble no matter what is tried? Schools have ISS, alternative schools, codes of conduct contracts, and so on. When I went to school we had Coach Velasquez and his paddle. That didn’t work either.
Changing Behaviors: Easy As A-B-C
Over the last several weeks we have spent a lot of time describing and defining behaviors. After all, our words and...