By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) continues to receive increasing attention in the world of education. In our informal conversations with principals and teachers and parents, we hadn’t discerned any particular patterns or consensus in approaches, and it made us curious to explore the subject a bit more broadly. We ...

By Tamara Fyke Whether you are aware of it or not, you are teaching social-emotional learning (SEL). Your students are watching and learning from everything you do and say. They are learning how to deal with stress and conflict, how to relate to others similar and different, how to organize their tasks and time and so much ...

By Tamara Fyke One of our chief American ideals is self-reliance, as Ralph Waldo Emerson discussed in his famous essay.  The great author encourages us to be fully ourselves, trusting our own instincts.  However, our students must grow into this space of self-confidence.  By nature, they do not have the knowledge and experience that engenders ...

  By Chad Berger After experiencing two student suicides within a three-year period, our small district of 250 students and our staff members weren’t prepared to endure another devastating trauma like that. Knowing that social emotional learning (SEL) has become an integral part of the K-12 experience, the district started looking for support in this ...

By Anita Mattek After several years of using a homegrown social emotional learning (SEL) approach, our district decided it was time for a more official curriculum that would support our middle and high school students’ mental health, academic achievement, and overall well-being.  With about 840 students in grades 8-12, we’d already developed a homeroom/advisory period ...

Students to receive tools on how to cope, deal and manage their time By Tiffany Huertas A Texas school district is implementing a program this new school year to help support students academically, socially and emotionally. Pleasanton ISD is adding social emotional learning or SEL, and they hope it helps students manage their feelings, show ...

7 Mindsets, the leading provider of online social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum and professional development to K-12 districts and schools, has partnered with middle-market private equity firm Gauge Capital to provide growth capital and to recapitalize the company for rapid expansion. This capital investment will further accelerate 7 Mindsets’ plans to develop additional SEL offerings and ...

By Lane Jabaay Editor’s Note: This is part two of a series about how findings and solutions from Applied Educational Neuroscience are necessary in improving our approach to the social and emotional development of children.   Educational Neuroscience (EN) and Applied Educational Neuroscience (AEN) are complex studies of the brain processes – all things centered ...