Student Well-Being Reports

Social and Emotional Learning: Perspectives from America's Schools

June 2015

To better understand educators’ views of social and emotional learning, the Education Week Research Center—with support from the Atlantic Philanthropies, the California Endowment, the NoVo Foundation, and the Raikes Foundation—conducted an online survey of users of edweek.org, Education Week’s flagship website. More than 500 teachers and school-based administrators responded to the survey, which was fielded in April 2015. The results presented in this report address a range of topics related to social and emotional learning, including educator perspectives, school conditions and context, preparation and training, and strategies and solutions. The report also contrasts a select set of findings from this survey with the results of previous surveys that the research center administered in 2012 and 2014.