The application of skills to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
Created by teaching artists and educators at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), along with classroom teachers, Social and Emotional Learning through Art contains 30 lesson plans that strengthen social and emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom, as well as evidence-based reasoning and critical thinking, through art.
Penguin Random House (PRH) invites teachers and students to travel around the world through the pages of fiction and nonfiction books set in countries across the globe.
The nonprofit Urban Assembly (UA) promotes economic and social mobility by innovating in public education, both in its network of career-themed schools in New York City and in school districts nationwide.
Young people face an increasingly complex world with global conflicts, social injustices, and mental health challenges shaping their realities. Teaching students about peace helps them develop problem-solving and social–emotional skills and promotes compassion, critical thinking, and collaboration—essential tools for navigating and solving the complex challenges they face and becoming impactful and engaged global citizens.
#HalftheStory (#HTS) is on a mission to empower the next generation’s relationship with technology. The nonprofit creates programs such as Social Media U, which helps teens take control of their tech use. Social Media U focuses on teaching digital metacognition to improve overall wellbeing.
Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day and KidsGardening share a belief that gardens have the power to do more than grow flowers and herbs; they can grow people, communities, and even kindness. Together, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day and KidsGardening designed the Lots of Compassion Grant to support local leaders looking to transform vacant lots into gardens to help grow compassion in their community.
Every student has the potential to succeed, but many feel disconnected from their learning. This disconnect shows up in many of the challenges we see in today’s schools: chronic absenteeism, lower engagement, growing mental health concerns, and a lack of preparedness for college, career, and life.
Cooperation Island is a platform designed to help researchers better understand how children across the world make decisions. The platform is created and run by researchers in the Cooperation Lab at Boston College.
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool from the nonprofit Digital Promise and edtech company Learning Innovation Catalyst (LINC) applies education research to generate different lesson plans for meeting the unique learning needs of each student.
On November 14, 2024, PBS KIDS premiered Carl the Collector. Produced in English and Spanish, the show follows a raccoon with autism, and his friends as they solve problems and embrace their differences.