Social and Emotional Learning: Volume 1
We must help students develop the skills to manage their emotions, resolve conflict nonviolently, and respect differences. These documentaries look at the important part that social and emotional learning plays in reducing negative behaviors and improving academic achievement.
Edutopia videos on this DVD:
A Principal Promotes Emotional Intelligence Schoolwide
Social and emotional learning permeates every aspect of classroom and extracurricular life at this school in in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
About the George Lucas Educational Foundation: An Overview
An introduction to The George Lucas Educational Foundation, its mission, and its projects.
Districtwide Commitment: Socializing Students
New Haven, Connecticut, school district officials have created a separate curriculum department devoted to social development.
Emotional Intelligence: An Overview
Many innovative school programs integrate social and emotional learning with more traditional academic areas, providing students with skills they'll need throughout their adult lives.
First-Class Citizens: Civics Isn't Just a Class
Hudson High School has become a laboratory of democracy, challenging widely held assumptions about how schools can and should operate.
Michael Pritchard: Lessons from the Heart
A champion of social and emotional learning reaches out to students.
Selling SEL: An Interview with Daniel Goleman
The author of "Emotional Intelligence" speaks on the value of social and emotional learning.
Social and Emotional Learning in Action
The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program helps develop emotional intelligence in Brooklyn inner-city students.
The Collaborative Classroom: An Interview with Linda Darling-Hammond
The Stanford University education professor says social and emotional learning is a crucial part of teaching the whole child.
Comments
Social-emotional
EQ is just as, if not more important than IQ.
emotional intelligence
As a school board member, I'm always interested in methods to improve emotional intelligence, whether by using a standard curriculum, such as Second Step or Peacemakers, or by using other methods.
There is so much that we know about the improved life skills and academic achievement associated with improved emotional intelligence. There is so much we know about decreasing problems that lead to school suspensions by teaching emotional intelligence.