If the devastation of the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that governmental ill-preparedness can lead to unnecessary loss of life. We need a national task force to explore the most effective ...

The social side of work is in short supply these days. Post-pandemic, many organizations have turned to some form of a hybrid approach: employees splitting their time between remote work and commuting ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you happen to travel to conferences regularly, you know that sometimes you return back from a particularly inspiring summit thinking, “I learned more there than I ever did during training.” There’s ...

Students nationwide can’t read or do math at basic levels and don’t know elementary science or history facts, but there’s a big program to rewire their brains, massage ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that SEL competencies are not incorporated into official state policy in every state. Some states have adopted SEL competencies as guidance or ...

Albert Bandura, a Canadian-American psychologist, discovered that a patient’s observation of former patients in handling snakes was an effective therapy while working with patients on snake phobia.

The basis of social learning theory is simple: People learn by watching other people. We can learn from anyone—teachers, parents, siblings, peers, co-workers, YouTube influencers, athletes, and even ...

Mark S. Reed, Anna C. Evely, Georgina Cundill, Ioan Fazey, Jayne Glass, Adele Laing, Jens Newig, Brad Parrish, Christina Prell, Chris Raymond, Lindsay C. Stringer ...