24 Oct 2016
Video

Social and Emotional Learning Explained: How SEL Helps Students in College, Career, and Life

Social and emotional learning (SEL) develops people’s ability to make successful life choices, to achieve academically, and to be college and career ready. In this video, Nick Yoder, AIR senior technical assistance consultant, explains how SEL can help students and what research says about its effectiveness.

Social and Emotional Learning Explained: How SEL Helps Students in College, Career and Life from American Institutes for Research on Vimeo.

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Related Work

4 Oct 2016
Video

AIR Whiteboard: Keeping Social and Emotional Learning at the Center of Teaching and Learning

Have you ever wondered what social and emotional skills look like in practice? If so, watch this whiteboard animation that follows a student throughout her day and ways in which she applies her social and emotional skills.
Topic: 
Social and Emotional Learning, P-12 Education and Social Development
19 Sep 2015
Toolkit

The SEL School: Connecting Social and Emotional Learning to Effective Teaching

Great teachers do more than promote the student's academic learning–they teach the whole child. The Center on Great Teachers and Leaders' Social and Emotional Learning School helps teachers, school and district leaders, and state education agencies collaborate in connecting social and emotional learning to effective teaching.
Topic: 
Social and Emotional Learning, P-12 Education and Social Development, Teacher Preparation and Performance
10 Jul 2015
Podcast

EdCast: Social and Emotional Learning #1 - A Head and Heart Issue

What is social-emotional learning and what does it look like in practice? David Osher and Cleveland Public Schools' CEO Eric Gordon discuss.
Topic: 
Social and Emotional Learning, P-12 Education and Social Development
5 Oct 2015
Podcast

EdCast: Social and Emotional Learning #2 - A Key Ingredient to School Transformation and Success

In this podcast, Kim Kendziora talks with Melissa Schlinger of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), lead partner in an eight-district demonstration program that aims to establish whether and how large urban school districts can systematically implement social and emotional learning into their work, which AIR has been evaluating since its inception. The results provide insight on how SEL can be a key ingredient to school transformation and success.
Topic: 
Social and Emotional Learning, P-12 Education and Social Development

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