Did you know that social and emotional learning (SEL) skills can easily be taught to students in grades K-8 right alongside core academic instruction in classrooms or afterschool programs? From ...

Districts have invested heavily in social-emotional learning in the past few years to help students recover from the trauma they experienced during the pandemic. But at the same time, some of those ...

SEL is the process by which students learn the skills they need to understand and manage their emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain ...

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, ...

In the spring, Harvard’s Jal Mehta and I discussed the frustrating reality of social-emotional learning, noting the disconnect between the promise of SEL (in theory) and the uneven quality of so many ...

If empathy were an animal, it would undoubtedly be on the endangered species list–potentially on the cusp of meeting a fate comparable to the woolly mammoth or the saber-toothed cat. Since 1973, the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed education worldwide, revealing vulnerabilities in both students' and educators' emotional health. What began as a response to a crisis has now grown into a ...

Some of the biggest companies in the world are starting to value social-emotional learning skills just as much as technical prowess. But are those skills being taught in schools? And should they?

This past fall, my 14-year-old son, Will, came home from school and told me that some of his fellow students had participated in a TikTok challenge that encouraged them to vandalize school bathrooms.