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Flush with COVID-19 relief aid and scrambling to meet students’ soaring emotional needs at the height of the pandemic, many school districts invested heavily in social-emotional learning. And that ...

NEWMAN LAKE, Wash. - The pandemic has impacted all aspects of our lives, but for kids in school it has changed the way they approach not only academics and learning but also the social and emotional ...

Jared Braun, a fifth grade teacher at Spring Branch ISD, has noticed a measurable shift in the mental wellness of his students in recent years. "Leading into the pandemic, our kids had the best mental ...

Kasey Curmode, a second-grade teacher at Enterprise Elementary in Wichita, helps lead a social-emotional learning lesson during a summer school program. Wichita — On the first day of school at ...

First it was Common Core. Then Critical Race Theory. Now, social and emotional learning. That’s the latest education jargon term to leave academic circles and fuel a culture-war controversy over what ...

Greenville County Schools continues to shift focus on implementing more mental health resources for students upon parents' request. The school district announced Tuesday through a Parent Backpack ...

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 ...

A politician in the Midwest recently told a state committee that schools shouldn’t be allowed to teach kids about feelings or emotions. A group of Virginia parents demanded to review their school’s ...

First came the denouncements of school district diversity, equity and inclusion programs and critical race theory. Now, suspicions are being directed at social and emotional learning, which helps kids ...

Wendy Turner sees social and emotional learning as central to everything she does in her classroom, from how she welcomes her second-graders each morning to how she guides them through math activities ...