Middle School

Edutopia is dedicated to improving the PK-12 learning process through innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives.

Use the worksheet to discover how your child is resilient.

The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence conducts research and teaches people of all ages how to develop their emotional intelligence.

Understood is a non-profit dedicated to serving the millions of families of kids who learn and think differently.

Children need the experience of feeling emotions and practice tolerating them to develop self-control and emotional intelligence. Article by the Gottman Institute.

Kimochis® are a great tool to teach kids emotional literacy. Get a bag of Kimochis, put them in a bowl, and pick 1-2 every night at dinner to discuss. Website has free resources.

Flexible thinking is a skill that lets kids look at situations in different ways and find solutions to new problems.

Article on Healthline by Rebecca Joy Stanborough, MFA about the pros and cons of concrete thinking. 

Watch Disney's movie Inside Out to teach kids about emotions. Website includes activities to download.

Teach children how to identify and label their emotions by first finding the primary, then refining their emotion to the secondary and tertiary definitions.