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SEL & Mindset
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is the deliberate commitment to including a framework of essential skills and dispositions that complement academics but historically have not been a part of curricular design. Learners acquire and effectively apply the skills necessary for self-regulation or managing and talking about emotions, forming relationships, setting goals and demonstrating empathy during their learning.
Competency-Based Education
How to Design Schools to Grow Thriving Adults: A Provocation
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Equity & Access
What is Belonging, and Why Does it Matter in Schools?
Explore the importance of cultivating belonging in education. Discover the challenges and opportunities of demographic change in the United States.
Equity & Access
How Educators Can Help Students Understand Their Own Neuroscience, and In Turn, Foster Positive Classroom Behaviors
Reagan Rogers shares how with insights into how students' brains develop and respond to experiences, educators can cultivate self-awareness and positive behavioral change, fostering nurturing environments conducive to emotional well-being and academic success.
Difference Making
At-Risk Youth Discover Support, Healing With Wolves
Wolf Connection is a unique 165-acre educational sanctuary in southern California that brings people together through direct relationships with rescued wolves for the purpose of empowering the next generation to become authentic leaders and stewards of the earth.
Ed Policy
Beyond Bans: Schools’ Role in a Hard Reset on the ‘Phone-Based Childhood’
Responding to Jonathan Haidt’s recent claims about phone-based childhood, Julia Freeland Fisher argues that schools must play a core leadership role in phone use and artificial intelligence.