Adolescence is a time of heightened emotion. Stress, excitement, anxiety, frustration, and joy flow through classrooms every day. But how do these emotions affect how students learn and connect with ...

When we educators fail to appreciate the importance of students' emotions, we fail to appreciate a critical force in students' learning. One could argue, in fact, that we fail to appreciate the very ...

Providing a suitable learning environment is of paramount importance for anyone, but it's even more crucial for young schoolchildren taking their first steps at school, given their inability to ...

Revisiting a book repeatedly helps children develop a sophisticated understanding of what emotions look and feel like.

Slumberkins is the culmination of more than 20 years of friendship and a shared life passion for promoting early emotional learning. As mothers with family therapy and early education backgrounds, ...

The school curriculum has changed a lot from when many parents and grandparents were at school. Alongside new approaches to learning math and increasing attention on technology, there is a compulsory ...

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As K–12 educators seek ways to help students develop social-emotional skills, they are finding that some of the same tools they use in modern learning environments can also facilitate collaboration, ...

Several years ago, educator Kareem Farah traveled to 15 districts around the country to observe student-centered instruction in action. Amid the inspiring examples of innovative teaching practices, he ...

Emotion regulation should never mean silencing anger. Anger is not a problem to be eliminated—it is crucial data which tells us we believe something unfair has happened. Outrage tells us our moral ...