Yes, this is the first time that the world comes together to celebrate and recognize the critical importance of social and emotional skills in our roles as parents and educators and for raising confident kids!
Social and emotional learning is a framework for understanding and cultivating essential skills that help us come to deeply understand who we are as individuals, our thoughts, feelings, impulses, values, strengths and limitations and also, how we relate to others in ways that are meaningful, fulfilling, and sustainable. Those competencies include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
Educators have the ability to practice these skills everyday through the academic curriculum and many schools use research-based curricula and professional development to help them do that in a high quality manner. Families also have the ability to teach social and emotional skills, not through a formal curriculum but through their everyday interactions — their routines, their power struggles, and challenges. In fact, research conducted in 
Hope you’ll join the first of the CASEL Cares webinars today with author of “Permission to Feel” and Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Marc Brackett. Register here!
