Character Building Implementation Guides

Teacher Implementation Guide Creating Classroom Cultu

Creating Classroom Culture helps to foster a positive clas that values teamwork, understanding, and inclusivity in the first few weeks of school. Ice Breakers, Collaborative Protocols, and Community Builders invite students to collaboratively share ideas, discover shared interests, and build respectful relationships.

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Foster strong relationships: Fun, multimodal activities help students get to know each other on- and offline. These lessons create a relaxed and inclusive environment, allowing students to form connections and discover shared interests. Use throughout the year to reinforce powerful relationships!

Promote collaboration and respect: Encourage a collaborative and respectful classroom culture with these ready-to-go activities. Students work together, share ideas, and solve problems collaboratively.

Encourage active participation: Ensure all students have an opportunity to engage and share about themselves using the Seesaw Creative Tools. These lessons can be taught in any order and revised throughout the school year to reinforce relationships and create a strong classroom community.

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Daily Feelings Check

Teacher Implementation Guide

Daily Feelings Check In provides teachers with the opportunity to their students each day. This collection also provides students with different ways to express their feelings whether that be through drawing, writing, speaking, or more. Teachers have the ability to use these check in activities to provide students with extra support, build meaningful routines and provide students with a necessary outlet.

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Morning Routine: Check In activities are designed to be completed independently by students for 5 minutes at the beginning of the day. Integrating check ins into morning routines allows teachers to provide timely targeted support for any students who need it.

Expression: Students process and share their feelings differently, and teachers should expect to receive a wide range of responses. The advantage of completing Feelings Check In activities on a regular basis is that teachers may be able to ascertain patterns in their students’ feelings that can further inform how they can support their students.

Support: Please note that Seesaw is not responsible for the outcome of student responses. It is the responsibility of the teacher to determine how to respond to student submissions. Teachers should always reach out for support if they find a student response concerning.

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Feelings Every Day

Teacher Implementation Guide

Feelings Every Day provides students with an opportunity to deepl various feelings and emotions they might experience. Each book discusses when a feeling might arise, how it may manifest, and strategies one can try. The books are followed by activities that encourage students to reflect on how they experience a feeling and opportunities to practice different strategies when managing a feeling.

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Introduce: These illustrated books are a great opportunity to introduce to the class at any point of the school year and can serve as a wonderful resource to ground discussions in normalizing the wide range of feelings students may feel.

Support: Use the Practice, Connect, and Show What You Know activities to allow the class to explore each feeling in more depth. These activities provide opportunities for students to recognize how they may experience a feeling, identify ways they can support a classmate, and come up with a plan for themselves when they experience a stronger feeling.

Choose: The Choose section features an interactive choice board designed to walk individual students through various strategies to help manage some of their stronger feelings. Assign this portion of the lesson individually any time you feel a student can use help reaching their calm center.

Remember, if you find that a student needs extra support please reach out to school counselors, and utilize any other school resource needed.

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Teacher Implementation Guide Caring Community Song

Caring Community Songs is a collection of catchy tunes designed their feet while learning key character-building skills. These songs p actionable relationship-building strategies, emotional regulation, and more. Play them repeatedly for whole-class instruction, brain breaks, transitional periods, and even clean-up time. Songs can also be assigned for at-home enjoyment, to get the whole family dancing while reinforcing character-building strategies and routines throughout students' day.

Best Practices

Introduce: Introduce the topic of the song to the class and why you are listening to it. Take the opportunity to build on prior knowledge and make connections to the topic.

Repetition: Have students listen and sing the song again and again. Repetition is key to comprehension in early childhood. Repeat songs during routines or in situations in which the character-building focus skills is applicable. Share each song's lyrics sheet or classroom poster to build student independence.

Learning Outcomes: After each song and depending on the topic, students are encouraged to discuss as a class what they learned about or heard in the song. Did certain words stand out? Do additional learning opportunities present themselves as a result of the discussion?

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I Am a Learner

Teacher Implementation Guide

I Am a Learner empowers students to build key character skill become strong and motivated learners. Students explore character-building themes through videos, podcasts, discussion scenarios, and journal prompts. Themes include empathy, accountability, gratitude, persistence, courage, and more. These scaffolded, multimodal activities help students develop healthy self-esteem and positive emotions to build strong relationships.

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Friends Making Frien

Teacher Implementation Guide

Friends Making Friends invites students to befriend five chara and learn about healthy friendships through a series of fun comics. In partnership with Dr. Marisa Franco, this collection has been designed so that students learn how to manage conflict, show and receive affection, establish boundaries, and more before applying key skills to their own friendships.

Best Practices

Role-play in a safe environment: Assign the graphic novel characters' dialogue for students to take turns reading. Students practice empathy as they reflect and help a character in each friendship scenario.

Flexibility: Tailor the lesson to meet the needs of your class by assigning activities for students to respond to independently before sharing with the whole class.

Extend Learning With Families: The Seesaw Creative Tools empower students to capture the friendship skill-building process, providing families with opportunities to reinforce at home.

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SEL Stories

Teacher Implementation Guide

Students co-write SEL Stories to learn and practice impo emotional learning (SEL) skills. Each story follows characters through situations students might face in their everyday lives. Students write dialogue, add their own voices, and decide how each story ends. Each SEL Story also gives students opportunities to apply their learning in collaborative games, because SEL is best in connection with others.

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Best Practices

First, complete the story as a class. Project the Lesson and read the story together. Look for Discussion pages and use the prompts to discuss as a class.

Next, students complete the story. Students read the story again and complete interactive activities on the green pages. Students can complete the stories on their own, with a partner, or in small groups.

Assign the Connect activity to build home-school connections. If students do not have access to Seesaw at home, students can complete the Connect activity with a partner at school.

Use with or without Second Step. SEL Stories are aligned closely with Second Step but can be used independent of the curriculum. The main SEL skill is highlighted at the end of each story on the Rainbow page.

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