How to Do a Back-Spin: Discussion Guide

This discussion guide for the story How to Do a Back-Spin (The Battle Within) focuses on Social-Emotional Learning skills for Self-Management and related Executive Function. It addresses planning, practice, patience, perseverance/grit, pride in achievement, following directions, and helping others.

When Embl is having a tough time learning his favorite dance move, his close friend Rodro refuses to let him give up.

The story How to Do A Back-Spin (The Battle Within) puts a new spin on the old saying, “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again.” It addresses overlapping and interrelated aspects of Mindfulness, Social-Emotional Learning, and Executive Function. The benefits of the interactions between two friends are a perfect example of the benefits of the interactions of these three disciplines.