How Learning Happens Video Series Edutopia – the brainchild of award-winning filmmaker George Lucas – is a trusted source shining a spotlight on what works in education. Showing people how they can adopt or adapt best practices, Edutopia tells stories of innovation and continuous learning in the real world. In their video series How Learning Happens, Edutopia … Read More
New Partners, Wide Reach During Virtual Learning Last fall, WINGS partnered with Discovery Education – the global leader in standards-based digital content for classrooms worldwide – to help us create a social emotional learning program centered on our evidence-based afterschool curriculum. Generously sponsored by the Allstate Foundation, this program – Soar with Wings – provides FREE standards-aligned … Read More
Empowering Others with Social Emotional Learning Best Practices Built for 2020 and Beyond To meet the needs of today’s educators and students, we updated our workshops and trainings with you in mind. Can we help you build your own social emotional skillset, reconnect or reengage with students, or build a better foundation for the new, … Read More
Virtual Programming for Schools & Families Like most, we spent the summer reimagining and plotting what the school year would look like and quickly recognized the urgent social emotional needs our schools, classrooms, students, and households are experiencing during this new normal. Through WINGS-Led Virtual Activities for teachers/classrooms and WINGS-Led Virtual Student & Parent Support for … Read More
The social emotional skills we teach don’t just benefit WINGS kids. Hear from Leaders across the Southeast on how they’ve grown, stretched, and blossomed because of WINGS. If you’re interested in joining our team for the 20-21 school year – or know someone remarkable who is – visit wingsforkids.org/careers for more information.
We’re six-weeks into our “new normal” and what a rollercoaster of emotions! We’ve been experiencing a full-range of highs, lows, and everything in between. This complicated, uncertain time means that we have to lean hard on social-emotional skills like stress-management, cooperation, self-confidence, problem-solving, and empathy. And for kids, we’re trying to create as much consistency and … Read More