Series

Big Ideas by ClassDojo

27 episodes

Short animated SEL videos built around Mojo, a monster who is usually the one struggling, and Katie, who talks him through it. They run in arcs: growth mindset (made with Stanford's PERTS lab), mindfulness (with Yale's Center for Emotional Intelligence), empathy (with Harvard's Making Caring Common), plus perseverance, moods, and big challenges. Each arc hands a class one shared word, whether that is the Dip, the Beast, the Maze, or the power of yet, that a teacher can point at later without re-explaining. Three of the 27 are follow-along breathing, movement, or yoga, short enough for a transition.

what this series covers

What Big Ideas by ClassDojo covers

27 episodes in the library, tagged for Pre-K–5th. Heaviest coverage: Social-Emotional Learning and Brain Breaks. Between them they line up with 19 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

Pre-K: 4
K: 27
1st: 27
2nd: 27
3rd: 27
4th: 26
5th: 26

Episodes per subject

Social-Emotional Learning: 27
Brain Breaks: 3

CASEL (Social-Emotional) 19

CASEL.SA.6Hold a growth mindset: treat effort, practice, and mistakes as how ability grows.
CASEL.SM.3Show self-discipline and self-motivation — keep working when a task gets hard or boring.
CASEL.SA.2Connect feelings, thoughts, and actions — notice what set a feeling off and what you did next.
CASEL.SM.2Use calming and stress-management strategies (deep breaths, a break, asking for space).
CASEL.SM.1Manage strong emotions and impulses instead of acting on them right away.
CASEL.RS.2Build and keep positive relationships and friendships.

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CASEL.SA.1Name your own feelings and notice how they change during the day.
CASEL.SA.5Show self-confidence — believe you can do hard things and take on a challenge.
CASEL.SOA.1Take another person's perspective — describe a situation as they would see it.
CASEL.SOA.3Show concern for other people's feelings and respond to them with care.
CASEL.SM.5Use planning and organizational skills to break a task into steps and manage time and materials.
CASEL.SOA.2Demonstrate empathy and compassion for others.
CASEL.RDM.3Make a reasoned judgment after looking at the information, facts, and evidence.
CASEL.RS.1Communicate clearly and listen actively.
CASEL.RS.3Practice teamwork and solve problems collaboratively.
CASEL.RS.7Seek help when you need it and offer help when someone else does.
CASEL.SA.4Show honesty and integrity, including admitting mistakes.
CASEL.SM.4Set personal and group goals and track progress toward them.
CASEL.SM.7Demonstrate personal and collective agency — recognize that your choices, alone and with others, change outcomes.