Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process of developing the ability to recognize and manage emotions, develop caring and concern for others, make responsible decisions, establish positive relationships, and handle challenging situations effectively. SEL provides schools with a framework for preventing problems and promoting students'…

This companion to "Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader's Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs" provides information on each of the 80 programs in the review. The information is intended to give schools and individuals a better overall understanding of each program. The description includes the program's…

"Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader's Guide to Evidence-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programs" introduces the concepts of SEL and comprehensive approaches to SEL, describes the value of such programming to the essential academic mission of schools, and suggests how to approach implementing such programming. This packet contains…

The current interest in values and social conventions stems mainly from an uneasy feeling about people whose behavior fails to live up to the social conventions that are upheld in society. Many people are calling for values and social conventions to be reasserted and education is expected to make an important contribution to this process.…

This report details one piece of a larger, integrated research plan to provide scientific evidence on the effectiveness of fine arts interventions in promoting positive change in youth. This report, Phase 3, states that, building on prior work, interview data were collected and analyzed from 35 arts interventions in the Los Angeles (California)…

Fourteen make and 14 female undergraduates who volunteered for a program to increase their dating effectiveness were matched for six dates, each date with a different opposite-sex subject. Heterosexual interaction frequency and subjective measures of comfort increased significantly with treatment. (Author)

Jean Reid described a recent three week tour of China, from the Hongkong border in the south, through Shanghai to Chenghow, in the centre. She took the photographs on the journey, which focused on the great social revolution taking place in China and the enormous educational development at the base of that change. (Editor/RK)

Focuses on the social functions of children's play, an activity that human beings in general create in which the person sees him or herself reflected in what is generated, which is authentic and, for the most part, presupposes equality. (Author/JM)

An experiment in home improvement shows important gains for socially deprived students. (GB)

Author describes the procedure used for designing a place out-of-doors where opportunities for learning abound. (Author/CB)

Author stresses the great need for each teacher to use all of the available resources along with his own fresh look at the child in his situation in order to discover the meaning of the child's behavior from the child's own point of view. (Author/RK)

The concept of endeavor training is that personal achievement is attained through personal effort. Endeavor courses take from one to three years and vary according to the background of the participant. They involve arduous physical activities as well as participation in cultural, human, intellectual, and spiritual activities. (MS)

Study of regular changes in an interpersonal interaction over time, and how these changes can be related to the individual development sequences of the members of the interaction. (ST)

Author attempts to find basic relationships between five major components, which end up by shaping some basic organizational patterns for educational planning. (Author/RK)

A selection from Values in Transition: A Handbook", its thesis is that formal education...has an obligation to educate broadly along lines of the intellectual, emotional, and social components, notjust the intellectual one per se." (Author)