Here’s another great SEL resource. This article shares one school’s experience with using Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to close equity gaps. In the words of the author, “Teaching SEL skills helps us address lack of motivation, problem behavior, and academic failure” (DeMarzo, 2022).
The article also includes a link to 10 ways for Schools to Gain Traction with SEL which outlines “best practice” recommendations from the experts.
Previous posts on this topic can be found here, here, and here.
Back in the late 1960s, many schools explored the concept of “open classrooms.” According to a recent article in the Hechinger Report, a similar idea is now making a comeback … primarily from “a desire to create a collaboration-minded workforce that will thrive in the open office spaces being built by companies such as Google and Facebook” (Iasevoli, 2019). Revisiting and expanding Herbert Kohl’s ideas (Kohl, 1970) is an interesting concept. Was Kohl was simply ahead of his time?
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