This Edutopia video provides teachers with five practical ways to prioritize students’ social and emotional needs before getting into the day’s lessons. In addition, the video demonstrates how teachers can use various strategies to check in on students’ well-being at multiple points during the school day. The video is accompanied by an article, “How to Maslow Before Bloom, All Day Long,” which provides some research background on the benefits of attending to students’ social emotional experience as well as additional check-in strategies.