Educator Notes
Ideas from the Maple Forest desk
Short essays on SEL rhythm, classroom use, and why Rex & Dino carry big ideas in kid-sized stories. No fluff — practical notes you can use this week.
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Training Data in kid-sized language
How Unit 1 of Rex & Dino's Big AI Ideas introduces AI learning without coding — and why teachers asked for it.
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Why story-first beats worksheet-first in K–2 SEL
SELKID's classroom rhythm — Story → Discussion → Activity → Reflection — and why Rex & Dino carry the skill before the worksheet does.
Put ideas into practice
Get the free Unit 1 comic sample and classroom downloads — then browse SEL stories matched to your students.