Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is nothing new in schools. Amid the attacks on critical race theory and legislation banning classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, a ...
Charleston County School District (CCSD) has been a leader in the state’s implementation of Social Emotional Learning (SEL), with 80 percent of elementary schools and 100 percent of middle schools ...
Empathy may be at the core of social-emotional learning curriculum but the curriculum, which traces its roots to the 1960s and has grown in popularity in recent years, nonetheless drew opposition from ...
On a recent morning at School 30 in Yonkers, Afsaneh Parandian held a Clifford the Big Red Dog puppet up to her class of pre-K students and posed a question: “What sort of feelings are there?” Her ...
It's hard to pinpoint when exactly the questions started coming in. Angelyn Nichols, an administrator for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, thinks it was sometime in early 2021. What she does know ...
In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms, enthusiasms, and fads that permeate education. In a field with more than its share of vague ...
A few weeks ago, I was working with a group of school leadership teams. Part of the process is to engage in collaborative inquiry focusing on a problem that the team is trying to solve. We were on day ...
At Valor Collegiate Academy in Nashville, helping students thrive personally and academically through a weekly social-emotional learning practice called Circle is central to their values. The school ...
They could be learning the best possible math curriculum from the best possible teacher. But if that student is feeling ...
Principal Erika Pasieczny (center) instructs second-grade students at Ascher Silberstein Elementary School on how to pet Larry, a bearded dragon in the school’s animal-care critter room in Dallas on ...
Across the United States, children spend more than 1,100 hours in school each year—time that shapes not only their academic ...