contributed by Meg Price, the ei experience Social-emotional learning (SEL) by definition is a process for learning life skills, including how to deal with oneself, others, and relationships,…
Read more Social Emotional Learning Strategies For The ClassroomAlmost every day at the public elementary school she attended in Montgomery County, Maryland, Stephanie heard comments about her weight. Kids in her fifth grade class called her…
Read more Kids with obesity do worse in school. One reason may be teacher bias – The Hechinger ReportSPOKANE, Wash. — Before giving birth to her daughter, Kaleeya Baldwin, 19, had given up on education. She’d dropped out of school as a seventh grader, after behavior…
Read more Day care, baby supplies, counseling: Inside a school for pregnant and parenting teensEvery night before going to bed, Antonio would tuck in his three younger siblings. After school, he’d tinker with toy cars, or help his dad, a mechanic, fix…
Read more As more youth struggle with behavior and traditional supports fall short, clinicians are partnering with lawyers to help – The Hechinger Reportcontributed by Beth Rush, Managing Edition at Body + Mind The image of your 5-year-old sitting serenely on a yoga mat might calm your mind if you’re a…
Read more The Benefits Of Meditation In The ClassroomLOS ANGELES — When Abram van der Fluit began teaching science more than two decades ago, he tried to ward off classroom disruption with the threat of suspension:…
Read more What happens when suspensions get suspended? – The Hechinger ReportJOHNSBURG, Ill. — A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their…
Read more Young children misbehave. Some are suspended for acting their ageI’m principal of a high school with a well-known name, only because it’s the site of one of the most devastating school shootings in recent American history: Marjory…
Read more OPINION: This cannot wait: We need concrete solutions to fight school shootings right now – The Hechinger ReportTRANSLATED BY CESAR SERGOVIA WAUKEGAN, Illinois — En una soleada pero animada tarde de noviembre dentro de la escuela secundaria Robert Abbott, seis niñas de octavo grado rápidamente…
Read more Las necesidades de salud mental de las niñas afroamericanas e hispanas a menudo no se satisfacen. Este grupo busca brindar apoyo. – The Hechinger Reportby Terry Heick So much talk about empathy in education recently. Why? What’s the big idea? The role of empathy in learning has to do with the flow…
Read more What Role Does Empathy Play In Learning?WAUKEGAN, Ill. — On a sunny but brisk November afternoon inside Robert Abbott Middle School, six eighth grade girls quickly filed into a small but colorful classroom and…
Read more The mental health needs of Black and Hispanic girls often go unmet. This group wraps them in support – The Hechinger ReportThis story was produced by The Associated Press and EdSource and republished with permission. CONCORD, Calif. – Aylah Levy had some catching up to do this fall when…
Read more Fewer kids are enrolling in kindergarten as pandemic fallout lingersAs a former public-school teacher, I know that my students sometimes acted out when they didn’t receive the additional educational supports they needed. Too often they then faced…
Read more OPINION: Halting corporal punishment in schools should be a New Year's resolutionFour Ways to Support Grieving Students Through Writing contributed by Brittany R. Collins Approximately 700,000 young people in the United States lost a parent during 2020-21, with the…
Read more Four Ways To Support Grieving Students Through WritingEditor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about…
Read more How teachers can talk about the Israel-Hamas conflictIn Newton, the liberal suburb of Boston where I live, parents of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim children gather weekly to discuss our concerns about how schools are responding…
Read more OPINION: Uplifting Palestinian American students makes everyone saferThis story was produced by The 19th and republished with permission. When Job Mayhue was a first-year student at the University of Michigan, both his girlfriend and best…
Read more ‘They’re just not enough’: Students push to improve sexual assault prevention trainings for college men – The Hechinger ReportDora Ramos is a family child care provider in Stamford, Connecticut, where the temperature climbed above 90 degrees for a few days in July. She takes care of…
Read more COLUMN: Little kids need outdoor play — but not when it’s 110 degrees – The Hechinger Report
