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Teaching social and emotional also improves grades
A newly published meta-analysis found that when schools provide kids with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs, their grades go up too. The effect size is modest but significant, roughly a five-percentile bump, or equivalent to a 0.1 GPA increase. Also, the effect size of programs longer than four months is double that of shorter programs.
Still, the idea that we can teach social and emotional skills in school—and not just academic topics—will hopefully become more common.
Researcher indicates that students’ social, emotional, and cognitive development is strongly connected and integral to students’ effective learning and positive academic outcomes…Although children and youth also develop social-emotional competencies (SECs) from their everyday life situations, they widely vary in their opportunities for exposure to such experiences that benefit their outcomes. If the goal of schooling is to support the academic achievement of all students to reach their fullest potential, then providing all students with the opportunities to access experiences that improve SECs is vital to this process.
