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Special Report
Making Social-Emotional Learning Work for Teens
Chances are teenagers are not getting the social emotional learning they need, especially now. This report shows how schools can help.
How to Help Students Recover From a Broken Year
What schools do to help students bounce back from stress, trauma, and disrupted schooling—and whether retention helps or hurts kids.
Special Report
Student Mental Health: Helping a Generation Cope With COVID-19’s Fallout
The pandemic's toll on student mental health may not be fully understood for years. Here's how educators are responding.
- Student Well-Being & Movement K-12 Essentials Forum How Schools Are Teaching Students Life SkillsJoin this free virtual event to explore creative ways schools have found to seamlessly integrate teaching life skills into the school day.
Student Well-Being & Movement Leader To Learn From Meet the ‘Sports Lady’ Reenergizing Her District's AthleticsThis athletics leader is working to reverse post-pandemic declines, especially for girls.
Student Well-Being & Movement Download Want to Start an Intergenerational Partnership at Your School? Here's HowPartnerships that bring together students and older adults benefit both generations.
Student Well-Being & Movement Opinion Trump Cut—Then Restored—$2B for Mental Health. Is It Money Well Spent?Awareness programs have not fulfilled hopes for reductions in mental health problems or crises.
Student Well-Being & Movement Opinion Doing the Nearly Impossible: Teaching When the World Delivers FearVideos of Renee Good and Alex Pretti's killings are everywhere. How should teachers respond?
Student Well-Being & Movement How This District Is Shrinking Students’ Screen Time—After the School Day EndsEngagement navigators in this district help students take advantage of the many available extracurriculars.
Special Report Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in 2026: New Challenges, Creative SolutionsSchools are incorporating opportunities to teach and model social skills throughout and after the school day.
Student Well-Being & Movement Q&A Why This Expert Believes Social-Emotional Learning Will Survive Politics and AIAs the head of a prominent SEL group steps down, she shares her predictions.
Student Well-Being & Movement ‘Great Lifelong Habits’: How This District Is Keeping Young Kids Off ScreensCan a massive expansion of extracurricular activities help build social-emotional skills in early grades?
Student Well-Being & Movement One District's Battle to Curb Cellphones and Get Kids to Engage in Real LifeSpokane's leaders are pushing extracurriculars to help students strengthen in-person social skills.
Student Well-Being & Movement Want to Improve Tweens' Social Skills? Enlist Older Adults' HelpWhen a middle school was built adjacent to a retirement community, unlikely friendships grew.
Student Well-Being & Movement How Do Teachers Rate Their Students' Self-Regulation Skills?Students’ poor self-regulation skills hurt their ability to learn.Student Well-Being & Movement Spotlight Spotlight on The Science of Self-Regulation: The Missing Foundation of Academic SuccessThis Spotlight focuses on ways to build students’ self-management skills, a foundational predictor of academic success.
Student Well-Being & Movement Trump Admin. Pulls Student Mental Health Grants, Restores Them a Day LaterThe Trump administration abruptly canceled a slate of mental health grants, only to reinstate them the next day.Student Well-Being & Movement Whitepaper The Chronic Absenteeism Today GuideSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.Address the root causes of chronic absenteeism, boost student success, and build belonging across campus with the Chronic Absenteeism Tod...
