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Ask anyone who oversees social-emotional learning for their school district, and they will tell you that professional development is a key part of that work. Teachers and principals need training on ...

CINCINNATI – A study published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found one-third of high school students experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic – an ...

This is a pivotal moment for social-emotional learning in K-12 schools. On the one hand, interest in building or expanding SEL programs is surging among educators and parents, supported by an ...

The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) sector has grown dramatically in a very short period of time. From November 2019 to April 2021, SEL spending grew by 45% to $765 million. It is likely to soon ...

People routinely think of STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math) and Social-Emotional Learning as two very separate subjects. Fractions over here, mindfulness over there. However, there are many ...

When challenging student behavior arises, the instinct in many schools is to turn to discipline: assigning detention, suspension, or removal from class. But John Gasko, chief well-being officer at ...

Over the past few months, we’ve all witnessed heated debates on issues both large and small play out on TV screens and at school board meetings across the country. I’m all for vibrant civic engagement ...

A protest outside the New Mexico Public Education Department’s office in November 2021 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The education department proposed changes to the social studies curriculum that ...

California’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing approved long-awaited revised Standards for the Teaching Profession on Thursday that emphasize culturally responsive teaching, social-emotional ...

Last Friday, Florida’s Department of Education — which, along with Gov. Ron DeSantis, has been setting the agenda for conservative attacks on education for the last two years — announced that it had ...