AL.com’s Education Lab team is supported by individual donors and grants. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter. Experts say that as the pandemic continues, schools are facing more ...

Immerse yourself in the world of social-emotional learning, and one thing quickly becomes clear: What, exactly, social-emotional learning is can be hard to pin down, and people often resort to ...

Ask anyone who oversees social-emotional learning for their school district, and they will tell you that professional development is a key part of that work. Teachers and principals need training on ...

Empathy may be at the core of social-emotional learning curriculum but the curriculum, which traces its roots to the 1960s and has grown in popularity in recent years, nonetheless drew opposition from ...

In 2021 DeSantis banned the teaching of critical race theory. On March 25 of this year, he approved bill HB1467, requiring transparency from school districts in the selection of instructional ...

People routinely think of STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math) and Social-Emotional Learning as two very separate subjects. Fractions over here, mindfulness over there. However, there are many ...

CINCINNATI – A study published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found one-third of high school students experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic – an ...

Bad things happen to all of us. You open social media and learn that a good friend is moving out of town. Or you trip as you walk down a busy sidewalk. Or realize you included someone in a work email ...

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 ...

Teacher Jamalia Sheets watches a child model the emotion “surprised” during an activity in the infant classroom at Ellis Early Learning. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

A protest outside the New Mexico Public Education Department’s office in November 2021 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The education department proposed changes to the social studies curriculum that ...