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How SEL and achievement lead to academic equity

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As schools reckon with academic equity, they’re often focused on academic progress. In Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens , from The Education Trust, researchers found most families of color don’t think schools are set up for their students to succeed.

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3 ways to combine trauma-informed teaching with SEL

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When trauma goes unacknowledged by caring adults, students can feel suffocated by the burden of their experience.

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3 critical attributes for any edtech ecosystem—and where to find them

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Together, they formed a powerful ecosystem through which Lake Washington’s students could feed their natural curiosity as they continued their academic development. . These learning experiences were delivered by educators using a variety of digital tools chosen by our school district.

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Digital tools are a vehicle–not a standalone solution–for trauma-responsive care in schools

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When a teacher is invested in their students’ social, emotional, and academic development, it results in reciprocity, meaning children who feel supported by others will then become more invested in themselves. Also, when an educator understands the way trauma affects children, the more they will be able to help them cope.

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Are educators using SEL to empower or to manipulate?

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However, the current level of thinking about SEL in education is primarily focused on producing academic outcomes. An example of this level of thinking is The Aspen Institute-sponsored National Commission on Social Emotional & Academic Development report, From a Nation at Risk to a Nation at Hope , published in January.

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Occupational therapy is the antidote for pandemic skill loss

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Research shows that the average student lost approximately one-third of a school year to the pandemic, leading to academic setbacks and missed opportunities for building skills fostered in school settings, such as learning to form routines and study habits, solve problems, and follow directions.

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11 educator perspectives on post-COVID learning

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We hope that as the pandemic effects ease, as well the corresponding constraints around social distancing, the return to normal allows us to reinvest in the type of instructional interactions the facilitate social emotional and academic development of our students.

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