It’s Time to Stop Calling SEL Soft Skills video from Edutopia
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Confident Parents, Confident Kidsby Jennifer Miller Year Published: 2019Jennifer S. Miller, MEd., is the founder of the site Confident Parents, Confident Kids and has twenty years of experience working with parents, educators, and other adults to help them become more effective with children through social and emotional learning. |
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Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxietyby John Duffy Year Published: 2019Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion that they are developmentally unprepared to process. As a result, saving the typical “teen parenting” strategies for thirteen-year-olds is now years too late. |
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Permission to Feelby Marc Brackett Year Published: 2019More than any other book on human feelings, Permission to Feel integrates psychological research, educational practice, and compelling stories, including Marc Brackett's own life experiences, to make emotional intelligence come alive. |
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UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me Worldby Dr.Michele Borba Year Published: 2017Hailed as “an absolute must-read” (Jean Twenge) and a book that “will change your kids’ lives” (Jack Canfield), UnSelfie by Dr. Michele Borba explains what parents and educators MUST do to combat the growing empathy crisis among children today—including a 9-step empathy-building program with tips to guide kids from birth through college, and beyond. |
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The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured Worldby Jamil Zaki Year Published: 2019In this groundbreaking book, Jamil Zaki shares cutting-edge research, including experiments from his own lab, showing that empathy is not a fixed trait—something we’re born with or not—but rather a skill that can be strengthened through effort. He also tells the stories of people who embody this new perspective, fighting for kindness in the most difficult of circumstances. |
Students at High Achieving Schools at Risk - Washington Post
Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids, Start Raising Kind Ones - The Atlantic
Why SEL is Essential (references to CASEL framework) - Edutopia
Promoting Prosocial Behaviors in the Classroom - Edutopia
Interpersonal Skills and Today’s Job Market
7 Skills that aren’t about to be automated, Harvard Business Review
The Importance of Social Emotional Learning for All Students in All Grades. - NEA
Friendship is Crucial to the Adolescent Brain - The Atlantic
December 3, Introduction to SEL: Self Awareness and Self Care