The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the work of teachers across the world. Educators’ access to students, technology use, and instructional priorities shifted seismically in spring 2020.

Many programs still teach debunked myths in emotion science that suggest there is a right or wrong way for students to feel. Some only teach students to down regulate (using the age-old phrasing of ...

(TNS) — Social media, generative artificial intelligence, and other advances in digital technology are already dramatically influencing how kids develop social-emotional skills. A majority of ...

There’s a growing trend among both states and school districts to outline their vision of what, exactly, a successful high school graduate looks like. These so-called “portrait of a graduate” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is nothing new in schools. Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is nothing new in schools. Amid ...

A student at an Alabama elementary school completes a social and emotional learning exercise. “If you aren’t implementing SEL practices throughout the day, you aren’t fully committed to SEL at all.” ...

The pandemic has caused trauma for people of all ages, including — and especially — our youth. These challenging circumstances have forced students nationwide to pursue their education in entirely new ...

One night when I was in graduate school, I stayed up late talking with a friend. Our conversation meandered from one topic to another, and I ended up telling her about my family: my parents who came ...

Editor’s Note: This story is the first in a series looking at ways we can help our children restore, with patience and love, some of what the pandemic has taken away. I used to be a bit cynical about ...

Adapted with permission from Roderick, T. (2023). Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education, (pp. 13–20). Harvard Education Press. For the culminating project of their ...

As the pandemic continued, social-emotional learning (SEL) took center stage as many educators realized teaching SEL could do a lot for students suddenly forced into remote learning. Teachers have ...