The Education Week Spotlight on Student Well-Being is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on how educators are teaching SEL skills during COVID-19, how teachers can help students grieve from a distance, and how classrooms can maintain student connection virtually or from six feet apart.
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Student Well-Being
Teaching the 'New' COVID-19 Social-Emotional Skills
Helping students develop critical social-emotional skills in a socially distanced world will require rethinking existing approaches.
Student Well-Being
A New Layer of Trauma for the Nation's Children: Dangerous Wildfires
Amid the continued threat of COVID-19, fires are now roaring across 10 states, causing experts to worry about how much stress children can handle.
School Climate & Safety
Triaging for Trauma During COVID-19
Even with remote learning, there are steps schools can take to reach stressed-out students without pathologizing them.
Student Well-Being
Helping Students Grieve From a Distance
As fatalities from COVID-19 rise, so does the likelihood that schools will have to help students cope virtually with the loss of a beloved teacher, staff member, or student.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
A Back-to-School Plan Built Around Student Connection
There's a lot we can't control this year, writes principal Jill Gurtner. Here's what we can.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Here's How to Protect Students' Mental Health
Teacher-student relationships matter a lot. Research suggests a number of ways to strengthen them, writes Heather C. Hill.
Education
Opinion
First Things First: Trauma Sensitivity Before Initiatives
Isn't it time we make mental health and the healing of childhood trauma a priority in schools, asks guest blogger Matthew Fleming.