From members of the EASEL Lab, this response piece in Education Next highlights the misfocus of concerns raised about current approaches to social and emotional learning in an article by Grover Whitehurst, and further describes the strong evidence behind school-based SEL interventions.
From the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, read a summary of responses and follow up conversations to a request of design concepts in writing, math, and executive function...
Stephanie Jones is one of three editors of a new special issue of the journal Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, focusing on the development and promotion of self-regulation.
In a recent article in Phi Delta Kappan, Rebecca Bailey, Laura Stickle, Gretchen Brion-Meisels, and Stephanie Jones propose a new approach to SEL in schools and in out-of-school setting that is developmental, flexible, and responsive to local needs, and provide a program utilizing this approach.
State boards can do much to embed high-quality SEL in K-12 classrooms. Read more from Jones, Bailey, and Kahn in the latest issue of NASBE’s State Education Standard.