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Summarizes, in a four-part review series, the benefits of social and emotional learning (SEL) in early childhood, and identifies the characteristics of SEL interventions that are effective in school contexts. The review identified effective SEL programs, strategies, and implementation practices.
Provides guidance for the types of measures related to social and emotional learning and development and school climate available for states and districts to use. This guide shares important factors to consider when deciding on a resource or tool for measuring social and emotional learning and school climate.
Includes a presentation to the state superintendent, describing the work of the MI S3 grant, including their “Think Respect motto, student outcomes, and information on Michigan’s Socal Emotional Learning Standards drafted during the grant period.
Identifies the instructional practices that promote student social-emotional learning, which in turn are critical for student academic learning. The brief also showcases how three popular teacher evaluation frameworks embed practices that influence not only student academic learning but also student social and emotional competencies.
Promotes the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) framework through interviews and focus groups with state policymakers, educators, and students. This study provides policy opportunities to better integrate the WSCC framework and highlights elements of a healthy school environment.
Paint the picture of what hardening of schools is looking like, school active shooter drills, metal detectors, clear back packs, school security officers etc. How do we soften the hardening?
Transforming learning environments to support whole child approaches to education is essential to meeting the full scope of students’ social, emotional, and academic needs and to prepare them to succeed in our global economy. Shifting towards a whole child approach has far-reaching implications for our education system and requires practice and policy approaches informed by the science of learning and development (SoLD).
Explores how engaging with the creative arts can help reduce adverse physiological and psychological outcomes, assist in the development of social and emotional competencies and resiliency, and garner hope for the future.
Discusses a persistent barrier to supporting social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools—the lack of high quality, reliable, and valid SEL assessments—and the innovative research supported by IES to tackle this challenge.
Identifies “bright spots” among Michigan districts implementing SEL practices to improve outcomes for children, including four key evidence-based strategies.