In the spirit of gift-giving for the holiday season, Norton is offering a discount on some popular titles for educators. Please enjoy!
We will be taking a vacation for the holidays, but K-12Talk will be back with new posts from your fellow educators in January. With best wishes for a restorative and joyful break,
Carol Collins
Education Editor, Norton Professional Books
In celebration of the first day of summer, we are happy to announce the winners of the Norton Books in Education Social and Emotional Learning Solutions Series book giveaway!
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Love is at the root of everything, all learning, all relationships, love or the lack of it.
Fred Rogers
After giving birth to my son, Kailash, in the spring of 2018, I was in a heightened state in which I became radically more aware of the importance of human relationships. Emerging from my cocoon, I was lucky that the first film I went out to see as a new mother was Won’t You Be My Neighbor, which explores the life and contributions of the host of the popular PBS children’s program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. For many of us, Rogers demonstrates what being a great teacher is all about. After seeing this inspiring movie, I realized that long before we had the term “social and emotional learning,” Fred Rogers was teaching SEL and reinforcing in each episode that our sense of connection affects how we learn. Through his television program, he was in fact sharing the message that the network of human relationships we live in—let’s call it love—is the fabric of our lives.
Continue reading “With Appreciation: For the Love Teachers Bring to their Work”
