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Smart Hearts: Social and Emotional Learning Overview

In school districts from New Haven to Anchorage, social and emotional skills are being taught and assessed just like skills in math and reading are.

December 7, 2007

Editor's Note: Linda Lantieri, featured in this video as the co-founder of Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), is now director of the Inner Resilience Program and a program consultant with CASEL. (Read an Edutopia.org interview with Lantieri about defusing stress in children.)

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