The Circulus Institute offers the first competency based, adult social and emotional learning certification; a set of courses and coaching built around teacher well being. As CEO and Co-founder, Ellen Mahoney’s work supports teachers in order to better support children. We discuss the motivations behind their work, navigating resistance and the impact of Covid-19.

This episode is sponsored by SMART Technologies: https://www.smarttech.com/education/profile

Show Notes:

More about Circulus Institute - www.circulusinstitute.org

More about Sea Change Mentoring - www.seachangementoring.com

Mentoring work by Dr Carla Herrera - https://greatlifementoring.com/team/dr-carla-herrera/

The Hemingway scale, Dr Michael Karcher - http://adolescentconnectedness.com/

The work of Michael J. Nakkula - https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/nakkula

The abuse of Devonte Hart - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/us/hart-family-crash.html

Adultification of Black girls - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/parenting/adultification-black-girls.html

Teacher well being index - https://www.educationsupport.org.uk/resources/research-reports/teacher-wellbeing-index-2020

RAND Corporation, report on teacher related stress - https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1108-1.html

More about CASEL - https://casel.org/