Our charge now as educators and school leaders is to ensure our SEL practices are Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) rooted; trauma-informed; culturally competent; anti-racist and anti-bias. To do this, we must cast a wide lens looking at the entire school community.
To ensure that aspirations for healthy EQ across a community are realized and sustained over time, a whole community lens, looking beyond just the curriculum, is essential.
This brief explores some of the current mental health needs of school-age children, their families, and the OST workforce. In addition, this brief discusses the social and emotional constructs that promote resilience.
This guide outlines a four-step program evaluation process that provides a consistent framework for coordinating SEL programs that are feasible, appropriate, and effective.
Watch this video to go inside a new “Wellness Center” at a San Jose high school, which offers students a relaxing place to take a mental health break.
Calming spaces in schools and classrooms are just that—spaces that allow students who are feeling stressed or emotionally dysregulated to practice self-regulation and coping skills so that they can return to learning with minimal disruption to themselves or others.
Strong majority of parents believe recent state laws banning books or making it illegal for teachers to talk about LGBTQ or racial issues are about politics, not what is in the best interest of children.
This latest issue brief from Penn State’s Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center looks at the ways in which policymakers are in a unique position to support social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools.
FutureEd analyzes the Covid-relief spending plans of 5,000 school districts and charter organizations representing
74 percent of the nation’s public-school students.
The Advisory includes essential recommendations for the institutions that surround young people and shape their day-to-day lives—schools, community organizations, health care systems, technology companies, media, funders and foundations, employers, and government.
Working for social emotional learning for all of California