At the end of a recent professional training, I had a rather candid conversation with an assistant principal. He was frustrated with his school’s sole focus on enhancing academic rigor at the cost of ...

More schools are now investing in social-emotional learning curricula than were just a few years ago, concludes a new report. Eighty-three percent of principals reported that their schools use an SEL ...

The “rebranding ” of social-emotional learning and other programs to avoid controversy for being branded as “woke” ideology highlights a real challenge in education today: Political pushback at the ...

Social-emotional learning can help kids thrive, but programming may not be inclusive of students with disabilities. Credit: Inside Creative House / iStock / Getty Images Plus Erin Crosby doesn't ...

Seventeen years ago, best-selling author Daniel Goleman and a group of education leaders and researchers tried to instigate a sea change in the American educational system by launching the ...

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