Educators talk a lot about kids being ready to learn when they go to school. Now an innovative program in the Allentown School District aims to make sure kids are emotionally ready for the classroom.

Social emotional learning — lessons in soft skills like listening to people you disagree with or calming yourself down before a test — has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. The conservative ...

Nuñez is a counselor at Monarch School. She lives in Otay Ranch. My mission as a newbie school counselor was to be able to walk into a room and know exactly what to do in any situation. Luckily, I had ...

School districts can help students understand and process their emotions while keeping them engaged in learning activities thanks to modern classroom designs. While emotion plays an important role in ...

Districts have incorporated social-emotional-learning principles into programs and curricula for decades as an effort to teach students how to manage emotions, achieve goals, show empathy, and build ...

Social-emotional learning can help kids thrive, but programming may not be inclusive of students with disabilities. Credit: Inside Creative House / iStock / Getty Images Plus Erin Crosby doesn't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shambra Watkins reads a book about emotions to her kindergarten class. ASHEVILLE - Marianne Simmons' first-grade students at Hall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Learning the emotional lessons of life can be like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces. It doesn’t matter how much you ...

Florida made national headlines when it announced its rejection of 54 math textbooks, claiming, without evidence, that some aimed to indoctrinate children with “critical race theory” and other ...

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ASHEVILLE - Marianne Simmons' first-grade students at Hall Fletcher Elementary start their days off by singing. "Good morning, good morning, it's a good, good, good, good morning, we say hello and how ...