BERLINER, BEN. “Social and Emotional Learning Are Vital to Education.”
The Aspen Institute, 28 Mar. 2019.
The time has come to look beyond the “Three Rs” and embrace a teaching style that links social and emotional wellbeing to academic achievement.
That was the takeaway earlier this year when the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development met to release their report, “From a Nation at Risk to a Nation at Hope.” Experts from the fields of neuroscience, education research, medicine, economics, and psychology forged a consensus that affirms “the interconnectedness of social, emotional, and cognitive development as central to the learning process.”