Making Social-Emotional Learning Tangible for Students — At a Distance

Editor’s note: Learning in the Time of Coronavirus is a multi-part video interview series where, in each episode, we interview folks with a unique perspective on how Covid-19 is affecting education across the world – and how we can keep learning in spite of it.

In this episode, we talk to Steve Mesler, Olympic Gold Medalist and Founder of Classroom Champions. He talks to us about his non-profit and the work that his athlete-mentors are doing in schools across America and Canada to make social-emotional learning tangible. He also makes predictions about the lasting impacts of the pandemic on education.

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Learning in the Time of Coronavirus

See all of our interviews from the Learning in the Time of Coronavirus video interview series:

• Research tells you one thing, your emotions tell you something different
• Teaching from home: “You have to have some adult facilitation.”
• Turn off the news!
• How do I capture the presence of my classroom, online?
• Following up with Tabitha, “Teaching from home.”
• Education is changing. How am I going to change with it?
• #ParentingInTheTimeOfCovid
• Staying Resilient: The Simple Pleasures
• Across Borders: A Multi-Cultural Perspective on Responses to COVID-19
• Keeping Up the Routine for Kindergarteners
• Making Social-Emotional Learning Tangible for Students — At a Distance
• How Instructional Design Can Help Us Teach Online
• Creating "Caroline Conquers Her Corona Fears"