April 30, 2026 - Students at college campuses across California recover hundreds of pounds of unserved food from dining halls to serve to their hungry classmates. California’s Commission on Teacher ...

Immerse yourself in the world of social-emotional learning, and one thing quickly becomes clear: What, exactly, social-emotional learning is can be hard to pin down, and people often resort to ...

Ask anyone who oversees social-emotional learning for their school district, and they will tell you that professional development is a key part of that work. Teachers and principals need training on ...

People routinely think of STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math) and Social-Emotional Learning as two very separate subjects. Fractions over here, mindfulness over there. However, there are many ...

Bad things happen to all of us. You open social media and learn that a good friend is moving out of town. Or you trip as you walk down a busy sidewalk. Or realize you included someone in a work email ...

CINCINNATI – A study published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found one-third of high school students experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic – an ...

With a noticeable increase in stress, anxiety and depression among students, private schools are implementing new approaches to help address the issue. Wellness programs and counseling services ...

Rarely a week passes now without the publication of a new finding or statistic regarding the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student learning and overall well-being. While the initial ...

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 ...

Confidence. Empathy. Interpersonal skills and conflict resolution. These are some of the tenets of social-emotional learning, or SEL, a decades-old framework embedded into the curriculum and practices ...

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 ...