2025 Exchange speaker Katherine Prince of KnowledgeWorks offers a sneak peek of the issues she’ll be exploring in her breakout session, An SEL Blueprint for the Future of Learning. As the education landscape undergoes profound transformation, social and emotional learning (SEL) stands at a pivotal crossroads. Educators need to evolve in response to the sweeping […]| CASEL
Key Points Back to top Regardless of what might be going on in the wider world, schools must strive to be places where understanding is elevated and hate is minimized. We know children cannot learn effectively in an environment characterized by antipathy. Incidents impacting specific groups, such as Jews, Muslims, LGBTQ+ populations, Asians, Blacks, Latino/as, […]| CASEL
Key Points Back to top The authors of “Using Social and Emotional Competency Assessments for the Continuous Improvement of SEL,” a chapter within the second edition of the Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning, are sharing a blog series that extends their chapter to include additional examples of how to engage in continuous measure improvement. […]| CASEL
Key Points Back to top Growing up, I never experienced social and emotional learning (SEL)—and especially not at home. The idea that my parents might use SEL techniques with us was out of the question. In our household, as in so many, the approach to parental guidance and discipline was punitive and limiting. With that […]| CASEL
Key Points The authors of “Using Social and Emotional Competency Assessments for the Continuous Improvement of SEL,” a chapter within the second edition of the Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning, are sharing a blog series that extends their chapter to include additional examples of how to engage in continuous measure improvement. In this first […]| CASEL
Key Points Back to top As a community school practitioner and advocate for the past 30 years, I didn’t think I would live to see the day when the U. S. Secretary of Education would announce the federal government’s support for a major Full-Service Community Schools Initiative. But it happened—and that event was no fluke. In […]| CASEL
Key Points Back to top CASEL’s series of Innovations reports share innovative conceptions, methods, and practices that embody the principles of social and emotional learning (SEL), along with aligned strategies that maximize learning and well-being for students in each setting of CASEL’s systemic SEL framework. In this blog, we share one of the case studies […]| CASEL
Key Points Back to top I recently retired from the public school system in Texas after 26 years as a high school social studies classroom teacher. Throughout my time in the classroom, I experienced the tremendous value of social and emotional strategies, and employed them even before there was a common language or framework for […]| CASEL