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As social and emotional learning takes center stage, professional learning plays an important supporting role.
By Elizabeth Foster
December 2017
Learning Forward is exploring ways to deepen our collective understanding about social and emotional learning and, in particular, its implications for professional learning. How can educators best be supported to assess and promote the development of students’ social and emotional skills? To that end, Learning Forward has joined with The Wallace Foundation as a dissemination partner to increase awareness of and share resources about the research, strategies, and professional learning supports related to social and emotional learning. We will explore a variety of resources in future issues of The Learning Professional to help members and colleagues understand social and emotional learning, starting with a new Wallace Foundation-commissioned report about a critical first step: how to meet federal evidence and funding requirements. Simply put, social and
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For more about the Wallace Foundation social and emotional learning efforts, visit www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/social-and-emotional-learning/pages/default.aspx.
References
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. (2017). About CASEL. Available at www.casel.org/about-2.
Durlak, J.A., Weissberg, R.P., Dymnicki, A.B., Taylor, R.D., & Schellinger, K.B. (2011). The impact of enhancing students’ social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions. Child Development, 82(1), 405-432.
Grant, S., Hamilton, L.S., Wrabel, S.L., Gomez, C.J., Whitaker, A., Tamargo, J., Unlu, F., & Ramos, A. (2017). Social and emotional learning interventions under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence review. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. Available at www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/Documents/Social-and-Emotional-Learning-Interventions-Under-ESSA.pdf.
Elizabeth Foster is the senior vice president of research and strategy at Learning Forward. She leads the organization’s research efforts for partnerships, programs, and fundraising. Elizabeth co-wrote the Standards for Professional Learning (2022) with Tracy Crow and now facilitates learning sessions about the standards and develops resources that support their use and implementation.
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