When challenging student behavior arises, the instinct in many schools is to turn to discipline: assigning detention, suspension, or removal from class. But John Gasko, chief well-being officer at ...

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a structured approach to helping students understand and manage their emotions, build empathy, strengthen relationships, and make responsible decisions. At Chicago ...

Project TOMiM, an all-encompassing social-emotional learning curriculum based on teachings in Torah and Chassidus created by ...

Emotional awareness is an important step in helping children thrive—but it’s only one of a set of skills many children will go on to develop to understand and regulate their emotions. Once children ...

In today’s polarized educational climate, many educators feel caught in a bind: They want to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students and foster inclusivity but fear ...

Pediatricians operate in a developmental world. Peter, a little bundle of joy I first met in the newborn nursery, was now a four-year-old tornado trying to whack me with my own stethoscope. How did ...

Teachers can leverage students’ interest in Greek mythology to explore emotions and topics like overcoming obstacles.

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 ...

A few weeks ago, I was working with a group of school leadership teams. Part of the process is to engage in collaborative inquiry focusing on a problem that the team is trying to solve. We were on day ...