Teaching with Tech That Builds Belonging

Tech can do more than deliver content. It can deliver connection. In a world of screen-time isolation, this dynamic session flips the narrative, showing how to turn digital tools into engines for social-emotional learning. Grounded in CASEL's core competencies, explore ways to keep students and teachers in a safe space of belonging by blending innovation with human-centered pedagogy. Discover how to use digital platforms for safe-space journaling, whiteboarding strategies that build cognitive empathy by making student thinking visible, and private check-ins with simple form tools that amplify the quietest voices in your room. Learn to pair these intentional digital routines with micro-moments of mindfulness and grounding practices to design an inclusive classroom where technology sparks empathy, agency, self-awareness and community. This hands-on session is packed with strategies you can use the next morning to turn your existing classroom screens into digital welcome mats that help every learner feel they belong.