Arguing for a language-focused approach to support socio-emotional learning and wellbeing
Language as a critical factor in socio-emotional learning
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Tag: SEL
Beyond Academic Learning Loss: The Effect of School Closures on Students’ Socio-Emotional Skills
An estimated 26 million students missed at least five months of school as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, the majority of pupils—notably the most disadvantaged—were not reached by efforts to support students' learning remotely.
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Ahlan Simsim partnership with Ministries of Education: Supporting and scaling for school readiness and beyond
Education is the foundation for success later in life and a critical tool for reducing global equity gaps. Early education and nurturing care in a child’s earliest years (0-8) are critical, when their brains are undergoing some of the most rapid growth they’ll experience during their lives.
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The road paved with good intentions: Is social and emotional learning (SEL) safe and effective for all children affected by crises?
Over 222 million school-aged children are affected by armed conflicts and crises globally as of 2022. This number is expected to continue to rise due to ongoing crises and disasters. In the reality of the compounding trauma and protracted crises that so many children are living through, we need sustainable…
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International Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Day
International Social Emotional or Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) Day was held on 11 March. This selection of articles contribute to this important emerging evidence base.
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Measuring the dosage of brief social-emotional learning (SEL) activities in humanitarian settings
This blog was written by Zezhen (Michael) Wu, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and J. Lawrence Aber, Department of Applied Psychology, and Lindsay Brown and Ha Yeon Kim, Global TIES for...
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Socioemotional Learning (SEL) and EdTech – Opportunities for Turbulent Times
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a seismic shift in education - not only in its delivery but also its goals. Here we identify five opportunities emerging from the pandemic that can help bring socioemotional learning to the front and centre of learning goals.
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Finding synergies between socio-emotional learning and mental health and psychosocial wellbeing
In this blog I briefly explore how one might bring together linkages between those working on socio-emotional learning (SEL) and others like myself working on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing (MHPSW), and similarly how people working in these two domains might collaborate.
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