The Big List of Social & Emotional Learning
Articles
- Teachers can integrate powerful lessons from the multiage classroom into their single-grade classroom.6/5/2008
- As more parents refuse vaccines for their kids, health officials worry.5/27/2008
- In the hardscrabble farmlands of rural India, dance and song help build pride for impoverished children.5/26/2008
- Kids learn to shape up, circus style.5/24/2008
- Roll over, dodgeball. Bold new activities put the fizz back in phys ed.5/23/2008
- The experts (and most kids) declare U.S. math education "broken."5/23/2008
- Garrison Keillor brings stanza and sonnet to life with the Writer's Almanac radio show.5/22/2008
- Teachers use physical activity to teach lessons.5/22/2008
When a teacher takes a stand against plagiarism, the ensuing showdown can be painful.
5/22/2008- A hip and homespun podcast about sex education is a hit with teens.3/20/2008
- Three exemplary schools reveal the shape of things to come.3/20/2008
Autistic students in the Stepping Stone preschool program get the best of both worlds.
3/19/2008Mothers got this charter school off the ground, and now it's flying high.
3/19/2008Handheld technology gives autistic students a learning boost -- and a social one.
3/19/2008A region in California combines public and private education to serve all its needy students.
3/19/2008As the number of special-needs students soars, public schools grapple with ways to offer high-quality education without going broke.
3/19/2008- Something is lost when little red wagons and mud pies make way for worksheets and tests.3/18/2008
Integrating social and emotional learning across the curriculum helps make a secure learning environment.
2/26/2008- With a presidential election on the horizon, teaching about our country takes on new importance.1/12/2008
- Canadian students are taught to look for the real meanings in the daily barrage of information.1/11/2008
- One man's simple plan to expand worldwide literacy, thousands of libraries at a time.1/11/2008
- For an American mother living in Stockholm, innovative preschool education makes the long, dark winters tolerable.1/11/2008
- A mile high in the Tyrolean Alps, a tiny school uses technology to reach out to the wider world -- and sheer pluck to keep teaching alive.1/11/2008
- In Chile, where education resists innovation, a small, determined charter school is going mano a mano with the status quo.1/11/2008
- In the Ugandan countryside, dedicated educators bring the printed word to students desperate for access to the wider world.1/11/2008
- Explore the many ways students are taught around the world.1/11/2008
- Gay students seek protection from bullies.1/10/2008
- Helping students become part of the environmental solution.11/20/2007
- A dim economic future lies ahead for high school dropouts and their communities.11/16/2007
- George Lucas and Daniel Goleman discuss the many ways that social and emotional learning enhance the education process.11/13/2007
- A controversial flood-control plan in the fabled city portends similar problems worldwide.11/13/2007
- A teacher must be bad at something to be good at teaching.11/13/2007
- A former inner city teacher reflects on a devil's bargain.11/12/2007
- While the celebrated HBO series turns its lens on the city's failing urban schools, one high school there strives for success.11/12/2007
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11/5/2007- A lesson plan for developing student awareness of their campus's degree of "greenliness."10/11/2007
- Environmental leader Bill McKibben discusses grassroots solutions to climate change, and how to involve our children in the process.10/4/2007
- Neuroscience shows that elephants are telling us a grim and vital story. Are we listening?10/4/2007
- The terrifying consequences of climate change can spur student action, and not just despair.10/3/2007
- A teen activist takes on the cosmetics industry and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.10/3/2007
Calculate your impact on the climate and learn how to tread lightly.
10/3/2007- Our first environmental issue includes a roster of green heroes, plus lesson plans, service-learning opportunities, our Go Green Database, and more.10/2/2007
- Turn fear to hope and action when discussing climate change with the next generation.10/1/2007
- Extended classes enhance learning and achievement.9/1/2007
- Disabled teachers bring a unique perspective to the classroom.8/31/2007
One mother’s continuing education in letting go.
8/14/2007- How the dedication of one teacher helped a child learn to love education.8/8/2007
A Los Angeles theater group helps kids in the juvenile-justice system and foster care create dramas of their own design.
7/3/2007The wounds cyberbullies cause can run deep.
6/14/2007- The Smithsonian editor learns in the marines that he could go the distance.6/11/2007
A man with autism explores the treacherous landscape of his native language.
6/11/2007The scramble to get kids to return to high school is on.
5/29/2007Reluctant readers thrive when they read with Rover.
5/29/2007Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.
5/8/2007Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.
5/8/2007Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.
5/8/2007Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.
5/8/2007- Guide Dogs for the Blind and Braille Is Beautiful team up to teach elementary schoolers about visual impairment.5/1/2007
- In the age of cyberbullying, a Stone Age tormentee looks back.4/19/2007
- As more and more teens are diagnosed with mental illness, schools and health professionals struggle to hone a response.4/19/2007
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- Kids don't have to squirm to learn.3/28/2007
- The People's Grocery links gardening, nutrition education, and after-school learning in a low-income neighborhood badly needing all three.3/13/2007
- A dynamic online program brings puppets (and play) to the classroom.3/12/2007
- In the muddy Vermont woods, teens discover science, community, and a newfound love of learning.3/9/2007
- National Public Radio reporter Claudio Sánchez seeks out small trenches to tell the big stories of public education.2/26/2007
- An autistic savant offers insights on his disorder, which more and more children are being diagnosed with each year.2/23/2007
- Encouragement, learning, and teaching should always be interwoven.2/2/2007
- Nilaja Sun's hit play No Child . . . brings the urban classroom to the stage -- and leaves the old clichés behind.2/1/2007
- Today's over-scheduled kids could use some true play time.1/24/2007
- Through dramatic work, students acquire tools for forming clear personal objectives, learn rhetorical strategies to achieve those objectives, and recognize when those strategies have succeeded or failed.1/24/2007
- Evoking a personal style that is part saucy, part proper, and totally brilliant.12/11/2006
- San Francisco's colorful murals are stories of grace and struggle writ large.12/6/2006
- What if it is a small world after all?12/6/2006
- For one veteran photographer, all the world's a learning experience.12/6/2006
- A German exchange student reflects on what she learned, and loved, at an American high school.12/6/2006
- In the frenetic Mideast, Israel's schools have developed a new approach to ADHD.12/6/2006
- The world is filled with great ideas about education. Take a look.12/6/2006
- The author explores the concept and methods of cooperative learning.10/19/2006
- Taking one's own life is no longer a taboo subject in school.10/19/2006
- Ten years ago, musician Dolly Parton launched the Imagination Library, which each month sends a new book to preschoolers. Today, it reaches more than a quarter-million children.10/19/2006
- Security work is social work at a Boston-area high school.10/19/2006
- Cooperative learning helps create the essential skill of working (and compromising) within a group.10/19/2006
- Children learn they hold an important place in this world, and that they can make a difference.10/19/2006
- A teenage Kimi Kean felt no connection with school. Now she runs one.10/18/2006
- Sometimes all you need is a visual blast to get you going.10/18/2006
- This school's Community Circle builds much more than a sense of community.10/18/2006
Media
- A second-grade class stretches to start the day at San Francisco's Dianne Feinstein Elementary School. More to this story.6/4/2008
Collaborative games, zip lining, and classroom aikido are part of a new physical education movement that makes kids smarter. More to this story.
5/28/2008- The internationally renowned innovation consultant calls for transformation, not just reformation, of public education. More to this story.5/22/2008
The director of Rutgers University's Social and Emotional Learning Lab talks about why SEL should be an integral part of academic life.
3/6/2008Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain.
2/27/2008A master teacher in Anchorage, Alaska, establishes a cooperative-learning environment in an upper-elementary classroom. (See teacher tools and student self-evaluation samples below.)
2/25/2008The author of Emotional Intelligence speaks on the value of social and emotional learning.
2/25/2008- The president of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) discusses the effects of social and emotional learning on academic achievement. More to this story.2/25/2008
At this elementary school in Brooklyn, fourth and fifth graders help younger students resolve conflicts.
1/21/2008In school districts from New Haven to Anchorage, social and emotional skills are being taught and assessed just like skills in math and reading.
12/7/2007The Anchorage, Alaska, school system's investment in social and emotional learning is paying off both socially and academically.
11/19/2007At Heifer International’s re-creation of communities in developing countries, in Perryville, Arkansas, Colorado middle school students experience firsthand how to survive in substandard living conditions.
6/7/2007The cofounder of the Wilderness Awareness School, an innovator in combining native mentoring techniques with the tools of modern field ecology, offers some antidotes to nature-deficit disorder. More to this story.
5/1/2006An elective class in Seattle’s AS-1 school where students from every grade come together to discuss and resolve their differences. More to this story.
4/3/2006Hudson High School has become a laboratory of democracy, challenging widely held assumptions about how schools can and should operate. More to this story.
11/16/2005Former probation officer and award-winning stand-up comic Michael Pritchard, a champion of social-emotional learning, believes that "no matter what we teach kids, love is more important than any knowledge we give them." More to this story.
5/17/2005At San Francisco's Gateway High School, a diverse group of students learn how their brains work and how to accommodate their learning styles. Most important, they discover that there is no one "right" way to learn.
More to this story.12/16/2003Many innovative school programs integrate social and emotional learning with more traditional academic areas, providing students with skills they'll need throughout their adult lives. More to this story.
2/22/2001New Haven, Connecticut, school district officials have created a separate curriculum department devoted to social development. More to this story.
2/22/2001This emotional-intelligence initiative is as relevant to children in rural Oregon as it is to Brooklyn inner city students. More to this story.
2/21/2001Social and emotional learning permeates every aspect of classroom and extracurricular life at this school in in Ridgewood, New Jersey. More to this story.
2/21/2001At Sherman Oaks Community Charter School, a teacher's attention and positive influence keeps a promising student on track. More to this story.
10/1/2000At this school in San Diego, California, school leaders place equal emphasis on the social, intellectual, psychological, and physical needs of their students. More to this story.
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