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POPSSocial-Emotional Learning Boosts Academic Achievement ? Yoga Calm Blog
<p>Since we started Yoga Calm more than ten years ago, an impressive body of research has been published on the positive impact of yoga and social-emotional learning on academic performance. It supports what we?ve seen in practice and what we?ve heard from hundreds of educators, counselors, parents and others. ?My students are staying on task much more consistently,? says a teacher. ?I?m getting fewer reports of classroom disruptions; disciplinary referrals are way down,? says a principal. A parent says, ?My child?s grades have really gone up!?</p> <p>But administrators tend to want more than anecdotes when teachers and staff recommend bringing Yoga Calm into their schools. They need more than observations that emotionally intelligent children do better in school. They want data that demonstrate efficacy ? especially of programs that are both cost-effective and support meeting academic mandates.</p> <p>So we were excited to read a new study in <i>Child Development</i> on ?The Impact of
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POPSTeachers Can't Coast All through our lives, we are at various stages of interest and commitment to our work and personal lives. When you teach, you must be on target, and there is no room for coasting. This is this issue discused here in our PLN. I like the idea that Sharon Elin shared that possibly the "coasting" teacher may need some assistance to get back on track. Sometimes, personal or family illness can put a strain on a teacher's ability to respond in a robust manner to their students. As I always say, let's check out the antecedents, before we throw the baby out with the bath water. If assistance doesn't help, the "gold-bricking" teachers may need to work somewhere else where they may have better results with this behavior.
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POPSSurveillance in eLearning food for thought. The student, supposedly the centre of learning, is a second class citizen when using institutional learning environments. Whilst more information may be available about them via social networking sites, the sense (and reality) of better control over data ironically may provide more privacy. People value privacy, even if only to be in control of who they give it away to. Institutional oversight of learning (probably) impinges on educational efficacy.
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