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Boston Public Schools Receive Grant to Teach Kids Social and Emotional skills

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Boston Public Schools and Boston After School & Beyond have been awarded a grant by the Wallace Foundation to teach SEL to kindergarten through fifth grade.

Social And Emotional Skills: Everybody Loves Them, But Still Can't Define Them

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A follow up piece from NPR to a story from two year ago describing the ongoing problem of how to define social and emotional skills.

Executive Function and Self-Regulation in Context: The Role of Stress and Vulnerability and Opportunities for Intervention

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A webinar from Dr. Stephanie Jones on the influence of stress on executive function and self-regulation and the opportunities for skill development.

Executive Function and Self-Regulation in Context: The Role of Stress and Poverty

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A webinar by Dr. Stephanie Jones on executive function and self-regulation, and the influences of stress and poverty. She presents strategies for skill development for those children affected by these influences.

The Evidence Base for How We Learn

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A new brief released by the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development provides a set of consensus statements and supporting research that affirm the importance and interconnectedness of social, emotional, and...

What is the Same and What is Different? Making Sense of the "Non-Cognitive" Domain

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With increasing attention focused on the "non-cognitive" domain, this paper, written by Stephanie Jones and the EASEL Lab, highlights the importance of providing greater clarity about the words we use to describe and define the constructs within this...

When the Naughty List Isn't So Bad

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As the holidays approach, learn how to use misbehavior to build skills and establish trust in this Usable Knowledge article.

Social and Emotional Learning in Out-of-School Time Settings

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From the EASEL Lab, as a part of series commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, learn about out-of-school SEL programs and way to adapt school-based SEL programs. Download the report here.

Kernels of Practice for SEL: Low-Cost, Low-Burden Strategies

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Part two of a series of briefs commissioned by the Wallace Foundation based on an analysis of wide-used SEL programs, this paper introduces the concepts of kernels, or low-cost, targeted strategies that represent "active ingredients" of comprehensive SEL...

The Evidence Base for How Learning Happens

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In this brief from the Washington Educational Research Association, the Council of Distinguished Scientists of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development releases a consensus statement on the importance of healthy social and...

The Evidence Base for How Learning Happens

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Using research from a range of disciplines, Stephanie Jones and Jennifer Kahn of the EASEL Lab describe the urgency needed in integrating social and emotional learning development into K-12 education in this article from American Educator.

For a New Approach to Social Emotional Learning, Look to Kernels

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Learn more about new kernels of practice being piloted by Stephanie Jones and the EASEL Lab, with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in this article from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.