In 2023, the Yale School of Medicine released a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of SEL on more than half a million K-12 students around the world. The findings showed that SEL produced students ...

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 ...

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a structured approach to helping students understand and manage their emotions, build empathy, strengthen relationships, and make responsible decisions. At Chicago ...

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 ...

A new peer-reviewed analysis shows K-12 students who got regular access to social and emotional learning had better test scores and better grades. There's been some debate about whether schools should ...

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 ...

A lot of things are done in the name of social-emotional learning. Here are some SEL strategies that teachers vouch for having worked in their classrooms. Michelle Makus Shory, Ed.D., is a career ...

Here’s the dystopian scene: Students nationwide can’t read or do math at basic levels and don’t know elementary science or history facts, but there’s a big program to rewire their brains, massage ...

Enter a school of education today and you’re likely to hear a phrase like this: “IQ is good, but EQ [emotional intelligence] is essential.” This reflects a profound shift in how we think about ...