Districts have incorporated social-emotional-learning principles into programs and curricula for decades as an effort to teach students how to manage emotions, achieve goals, show empathy, and build ...

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 ...

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 ...

The emphasis on teaching social-emotional learning continues to expand across K-12 schools, especially at the high school level. That is the case even though there has been significant pushback ...

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an educational process that aims to help children develop social and emotional life skills. These include managing difficult emotions, dealing with stress, ...

At Laguna Blanca School, education extends beyond academics to foster social-emotional growth at every stage. Laguna’s goal is for graduates to confidently and compassionately navigate an ...

A Tucson nonprofit brings kindness lessons to classrooms, sparking debate over what students should learn.

A groovy background with a lot of emotional faces with googly eyes. Source: Designed by Lyrica Fils-Aimé Administrators often require educators to implement social-emotional learning (SEL) in schools, ...

Confidence. Empathy. Interpersonal skills and conflict resolution. These are some of the tenets of social-emotional learning, or SEL, a decades-old framework embedded into the curriculum and practices ...

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