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Oakland Schools has released their Social Emotional Thinking Routines webpage. This site features over 20 ready to use thinking routines for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in classrooms, small groups and individual encounters. Teachers, social workers, counselors, psychologists and other educators can easily start using them today. The website URL is https://tinyurl.com/SELRoutines SEL has been making the education news lately to help create positive school cultures, decrease bullying and improve academic learning. Thinking Routines are one of the 8 cultural forces of Cultures of Thinking (CoT) to help students engage in deeper learning and critical thinking. Using CoT routines with SEL creates deeper student engagement and helps develop empathy, appropriate behavior and personal expression. Most routine lessons require only markers and paper and can be easily modified depending on student age and ability. The lessons can also be used with existing curricula such as Why Try?, Michigan Model, Second Step or Zones of Regulation. The website not only has ready to use lessons, but presents in depth understanding of some of the most frequently used routines for easy adaption to create new learning activities. Classroom teachers and behavior interventionists may use these routines with who classrooms. Social workers, counselors and psychologists will find them useful use in small groups and individual sessions to help their kids express their thoughts, feelings and needs. This website is a result of many CoT for SEL seminars taught in Oakland County, MI by Huron Valley Schools' social worker, Jennifer Hollander, LMSW. Steve Whitmore, LMSW has created the website to curate artifacts from this powerful professional learning.