The exercise is part of a larger push this school year in the Storm Lake Community School District to incorporate social-emotional learning into the first 15 minutes of elementary students’ day.

Nationwide, school and district spending on SEL grew roughly 45 percent between November 2019 and April 2021, according to a report by Tyton Partners, an education consulting and investment firm. The ...

Vanessa Drumm-Canepa. Vanessa Drumm-Canepa is principal at Langley Elementary in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Duke University in 2004 with a major in history and minor in English, and during ...

The site includes guides for integrating SEL into curricula, policy recommendations, and real-world case studies showcasing the benefits of SEL in schools. 2. Greater Good in Education. Created by the ...

An updated meta-analysis was published in July 2023 in the peer-reviewed journal Child Development. It was conducted by 14 researchers, the majority from Yale University, and it also found good ...

Traditionally, SEL implementation has lagged in middle and high schools, due in part to a perception that it is more developmentally appropriate for elementary students.

SEL in the district — where 55 percent of students are on free or reduced-price meals — is taught through explicit instruction, some of which targets social media use, especially in middle and ...

An image of fourth-grade students at Timber Ridge Elementary School engaging in a SEL (social and emotional learning) program. The program aims to promote positive mental health among its students.

Erin Crosby doesn't recall social-emotional learning (SEL) being part of her student experience. Crosby, now a special education teacher at an elementary school in Massachusetts, was in college by ...

SEL had already been politicized by an education establishment that, most charitably, was not and still is not capable of recognizing its own far-left bias — or, less charitably, that is ...

Throughout the state, “there are a lot of conversations going on” about the future of SEL, Florida Education Association's Andrew Spar said. “In some schools, there’s talk of stopping the ...