A lot of lessons, strategies, and activities are done in the name of social-emotional learning. Which ones, though, are the most effective? Educators will share their opinions in this series. In ...

Social emotional learning — lessons in soft skills like listening to people you disagree with or calming yourself down before a test — has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. The conservative ...

School administrators in anti-CRT states have found a way to teach the same subjects but under a different name to avoid conflict. In Caldwell, Idaho, Melissa Langan, the chief academic officer of the ...

Wickersham Elementary School will be a model for more than 5,000 schools across the world due to its success employing a tool that helps students identify and communicate about their emotions. Yale ...

In Jill Staton’s fifth grade class, the videos playing on the classroom screen during social-emotional learning time are ones she and the students sometimes call “cringey.” Cartoon drawings of skin, ...

First it was Common Core. Then Critical Race Theory. Now, social and emotional learning. That’s the latest education jargon term to leave academic circles and fuel a culture-war controversy over what ...

Here’s the dystopian scene: Students nationwide can’t read or do math at basic levels and don’t know elementary science or history facts, but there’s a big program to rewire their brains, massage ...

Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over ...

A lot of things are done in the name of social-emotional learning. Here are some SEL strategies that teachers vouch for having worked in their classrooms. Michelle Makus Shory, Ed.D., is a career ...

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