Cloudy with a Chance of Feelings

Public Education Matters · Oct 29, 2026 · 25m · transcript

For students to be successful in the classroom - and in life - they need to learn to identify and manage their emotions. But, teaching about abstract ideas like emotions with abstract concepts like color-coding just wasn't working for the students in Erin Nusker's Lake County kindergarten class. So, she got creative and came up with a new system - and a whole research-backed book series - to turn emotional regulation into something young learners could actually understand. In this episode, the Madison Education Association member shares how she brought her lovable weather characters to life…