Tag: SEL
COVID’s Literacy Fallout
The metaphor “summer slide” has been used for decades to describe the essential skills that children lose over the summer when they’re out of...
Creating Contentment
In our media-saturated environment of ubiquitous devices, streaming video, and the pressure to keep up with instant messages and social media, students are often...
Back-to-School Guide Designed to Help Teachers Support SEL
Aperture Education has released a 2021 Back-to-School Guide designed to help teachers and administrators support students and families as schools resume. The Guide contains...
Managing Reunions
This fall, many educators across the U.S. will be welcoming students back to brick-and-mortar classrooms for the first time in 18 months. Along with...
How to Best Support English Learners at Home
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, English learners (ELs), like many students, already faced challenges at school. How to engage and teach ELs when they’re learning...
Needs Attention
When we have a chance to look back, many in education will recognize 2020 as the year that learning radically changed. The impact of...
Helping Students Find Their Voices
Imagine being a student whose family has recently immigrated to the U.S. Your family is often struggling to make ends meet, is undocumented, and...
Bilingual Children Adapt to Others’ Needs Better
Bilingual children adapt to the needs of their communication partners better than monolingual children, according to a study published in Child Development, because children...
Making Connections That Count
Roberto Rivera explores the vital connection between social and cultural competence—for both students and teachers
My father is from Nicaragua, and when I was growing...
