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 ...

CHICAGO—For the eighth grader Kimberly Wilborn, a lesson about Nelson Mandela made it all click. “Ms. Plante was talking about Nelson Mandela and how he forgave his jailers,” remembers Wilborn, who is ...

Schools have always taken on responsibilities that go beyond teaching history, English, or math. They are an important part of the communities they serve and an integral part of the lives of the ...

If you happen to travel to conferences regularly, you know that sometimes you return back from a particularly inspiring summit thinking, “I learned more there than I ever did during training.” There’s ...

Setting aside time in the school day to teach students social-emotional skills, such as emotional regulation and perspective-taking, can substantially boost students’ grade-point averages and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wendy Turner sees social and emotional learning as central to everything she does in her classroom, from how she welcomes her second-graders each morning to how she guides them through math activities ...