Policy Brief: Advances in Social Emotional Learning: Current understanding, research and practice

This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum.  After more than 30 years of research on social emotional learning (SEL) in classrooms, scientists and practitioners, recognizing that social emotional learning is foundational to all learning, have agreed on the core skills of social emotional learning. Cutting edge research on SEL is discovering ways schools can improve implementation of evidence-based SEL programs to enhance not only SEL skills, but also students’ academic outcomes.