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Hills I'd Die On as an Elementary Music Teacher & SEL Advocate
New music teachers save this! Here are some of my biggest SEL tips and lessons from 14 years of teaching!

Narwhals & Waterfalls
Sep 242 min read


My “Why”: SEL before there was SEL
Hey, I’m Adrien Palmer, half of Narwhals & Waterfalls. I currently live in Dallas with my wife Lizbet , my son “O”, and my dog, Tyler. I do all kinds of things, odd jobs here and there, but my main work is writing music and managing communications for a nonprofit here in Dallas. After being forced to take a summer job at McDonalds when I was 18, I was determined to do anything but that the next summer. I ended up working at a summer camp in Gaston, a small town 20 minutes out


Why I Started Using SEL in the Classroom, by Paige Bell
Hey, I’m Paige and I’m half of Narwhals & Waterfalls. I live with my husband Matt, two kids Ezra and Zoey, & my blue-heeler dog, Luna.I love songwriting, journaling, being outside and reading books about self-growth and business. I am a K-5 Music Teacher in Dallas, TX. I can still remember the first day I stepped into my elementary school campus. As a baby-faced 23-year-old who was fresh out of student teaching, I was scared and unsure of how I was going to manage 700 student
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