Low financial literacy is a growing problem in young adults, which has effects throughout adulthood (Amagir et al., 2018). Record low personal savings rates, a shift toward increased personal responsibility for retirement, and increasing student loan balances put financial decision-making demands on young adults that have lifelong impacts (Lusardi…

Social-emotional learning (SEL) allows students to develop core skills of self-management, self-awareness, social awareness, responsible decision making, and relationship skills, which in turn enhances children's abilities to successfully engage in these behaviors (CASEL, 2013). Educators are seeing a rise in negative behaviors, emotional issues…

Identifying specific leadership behaviors of elementary school principals that create conditions for positive change is critical to implementing educational reform. The purpose of this research is to identify specific leadership behaviors of principals that have positively impacted the implementation of the Common Core State Standards through the…