Virtual Learning and Learning Disabilities – How SEL Helps
The rapid move to virtual learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many challenges for our education system. Educators and students alike had to quickly adjust to virtual learning, which brought many challenges of its own. But one unexpected side effect of the move to remote learning was its effect on teachers of […]
Tips and Resources for Educators Teaching SEL During COVID-19
With their students, classrooms, and administrative systems upended by COVID-19, social-emotional learning (SEL) is proving to be a challenge for many educators. According to a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s 2020 Educator Confidence Report, only 7 percent of 1,400 educators surveyed said they were prepared to address students’ social and emotional needs during COVID-19. Only 10 percent surveyed reported […]
Virtual Learning & SEL: Impacts on Children and Teens
According to the Center on Reinventing Public Education, about twenty-five percent of U.S. school districts have started the year fully remote. If not wholly virtual, many schools are doing some form of hybrid or staggered in-school learning. However, with this shift to online instruction, social and emotional learning (SEL) practices have been disrupted. Some children and […]