Teaching students how to successfully navigate complex emotional and social situations is at the heart of Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Noting the successes of existing SEL programs, school districts are committing more time, money, and resources into integrating SEL into classroom curriculum and the school environment.
2. Our Speakers
Maureen Hance
Market Insights Product
Manager, MDR
Andrea Lovanhill
VP Marketing & Client Relations,
Committee for Children
Anne Snyder
Senior Learning Scientist,
McGraw-Hill
3. Agenda
• SEL Research Overview
• Key Findings from Social Emotional Learning in
Schools MDR Insights Report
• Supporting Schools with Implementing SEL
• McGraw-Hill and Sesame Workshop
Collaboration
• Q&A
4. Recent News Headlines Point to SEL
New Research Shows Social Emotional Learning Afterschool
Program Boosts Students’Academic Performance and
Classroom Behavior April 2, 2019
Should Schools Embrace Social and Emotional Learning?
April 1, 2019
Nearpod Launches Social Emotional Learning Curriculum in
Partnership with Common Sense Education March 28, 2019
4 Ways Social-Emotional Learning Can Create Safe School
Spaces for All Students March 14, 2019
The Allstate Foundation Announces Five-year, $45 Million
Commitment to Empower Millions of Youth to Build Social
and Emotional Learning Skills October 17, 2018
5. Benefits of SEL Instruction
Short-term
✓ Improved academic performance
✓ Improved school culture and social behaviors
✓ Decreased school suspensions and negative
behavioral incidents
Long-term
✓ Higher graduation rates
✓ Improved workforce readiness
✓ Higher income levels as adults
8. Research on SEL Integration
University of FL awarded $3.5M research grant
“Evaluating a Social-Emotional Learning
Curriculum for Children At Risk for Emotional
or Behavioral Disorders”
10. MDR Insights Report: Social Emotional Learning in Schools
Survey Objective:
✓ To explore the current perceptions
related to social and emotional
learning in K-12 schools.
Methodology:
✓ Online survey that fielded Nov-Dec
2018. The first 500 respondents
received a $5 Amazon gift card.
11. Profile of Respondents
• Over 1,000 teachers and support staff
entered the survey.
• 530 indicated SEL in their schools. The
report is based on these respondents.
28. Our SEL Journey Continues
What’s on the SEL horizon?
• Culturally responsive SEL
• SEL for teachers
• Measuring SEL
• SEL in middle and high school
• Discipline-specific SEL skills