What if you discovered that there’s a way to help students become more well-rounded, self-controlled and responsible, thus allowing them to progress socially and academically? And what if those gains ...

First it was Common Core. Then Critical Race Theory. Now, social and emotional learning. That’s the latest education jargon term to leave academic circles and fuel a culture-war controversy over what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parents are strongly in favor of schools teaching the skills promoted in social-emotional learning. Things like setting goals, controlling emotions, and being informed citizens. However, if you ask ...

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 ...

Wendy Turner sees social and emotional learning as central to everything she does in her classroom, from how she welcomes her second-graders each morning to how she guides them through math activities ...

Fourth-grade teacher Emily Stamp is helping students at Washington Elementary School in Mount Vernon to identify their feelings, and teaching strategies they can use to manage those feelings to be ...

The recent box office smash hit Minecraft is based on a very popular video game by the same name. It's known for its block graphics, calming music that set the vibe for players to "mine" for building ...

When Sarah Kaka started teaching future social studies teachers about a decade ago, she talked about featuring diverse perspectives and strategies for addressing hard history—the more complicated and ...

A large coalition of educator organizations, parents groups and researchers is coming together like Voltron to fight against conservative restrictions on lessons that help students better cope with ...