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key to solving inequity
Blog 3 minutes | June 20, 2018

Report: Can SEL Solve School Inequity?

Social-emotional learning (SEL) experts espouse the approach’s ability to improve student performance and behavior. But can SEL also boost equity i...

students with book
Blog 3 minutes | March 1, 2018

Students Find Their Voice During Read Across America

It’s Read Across America week. In classrooms across the country, students, teachers, and special guests are celebrating the fun and importance of r...

child technology addiction
Blog 3 minutes | February 12, 2018

Screen Time Warnings: Addressing Child Technology Use in Schools

The time  of ”no phones in class” may be coming to an end. Despite lingering concerns among some educators that smartphones and other portable comm...

nashville
Blog 3 minutes | February 9, 2018

SEL as Culture: Nashville Schools Go Beyond Strategy

Once considered an experimental approach by some, many educators and school leaders are now looking to social-emotional learning as a means to tran...

more depression in teens
Blog 3 minutes | February 8, 2018

Study: More Screen Time Linked to Increased Teen Depression

Is social media harming our children? It’s a question researchers, educators, and parents alike have been wrestling with since our cultural obsessi...

SEL a must have
Blog 3 minutes | January 25, 2018

Essential Report: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) a Must-Have for Schools

Social and emotional skills don’t just aid learning, they are inextricably linked to student success, a new study finds. The Aspen Institute’s Nati...

better school climate
Blog 3 minutes | January 18, 2018

Student Positivity: Key to Better School Climate?

An expanding wealth of research draws a bright line between student performance and school climate. One study, released last year by the U.S Educat...

Standardized testing
Blog 3 minutes | January 4, 2018

Standardized Testing Decline: Embracing Community Success Measures

Over the past decade, there hasn’t been much that policymakers and others advocating for America’s K-12 education system could easily agree on. Wit...

parent involvement money
Blog 3 minutes | September 11, 2017

When it Comes to Parent Involvement, Income Matters

Getting Parents Involved in Education Anyone who’s ever worked in schools knows that parents involved in education are key to student success. Educ...

Study Parents have mixed feelings
Blog 3 minutes | August 28, 2017

Study: Mixed Feelings Among Parents on Later School Start Times

As a new school year kicks off, students across the country are readjusting to early-morning start times. I’ve been out of high school for nearly 1...