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 ...

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How much time should educators spend during the school day helping students develop healthy social and emotional skills? It’s an important question as school districts across the country invest more ...

Jared Braun, a fifth grade teacher at Spring Branch ISD, has noticed a measurable shift in the mental wellness of his students in recent years. "Leading into the pandemic, our kids had the best mental ...

When educating today’s youth, it is no longer enough to teach reading, writing and arithmetic. National statistics show that there is an increased need in teaching our youth about their mental health, ...

Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over ...

Teacher Jamalia Sheets watches a child model the emotion “surprised” during an activity in the infant classroom at Ellis Early Learning. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

Principal Erika Pasieczny (center) instructs second-grade students at Ascher Silberstein Elementary School on how to pet Larry, a bearded dragon in the school’s animal-care critter room in Dallas on ...

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, ...

Florida made national headlines when it announced its rejection of 54 math textbooks, claiming, without evidence, that some aimed to indoctrinate children with “critical race theory” and other ...

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