Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
Morningside’s Winter 2008 edition of Action News tackles issues of Social and Emotional Learning, conflict resolution, and more.

The Positive Impact of SEL for Kindergarten to Eighth-Grade Students
An executive summary of the findings from three scientific reviews. (Full report)

The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning(from edutopia.org)
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain.

A Novel Approach to Feelings: Using Literary Characters to Teach Emotional Intelligence
…in the past decade, spurred on by growing scholarly evidence of the impact social-and-emotional-learning (SEL) initiatives can have on classroom productivity and academic performance, teachers have begun to weave such lessons into their literature segments.

A New Model of Schooling: Creating Knowledgeable, Responsible, Nonviolent, Drug-Free, Caring Kids
The challenge of raising knowledgeable, responsible, nonviolent, drug-free, and caring children is familiar to parents, policy makers, administrators, and teachers. But what may be less familiar and less well understood is the insight that each element of this challenge can be enhanced by thoughtful, sustained, and systematic attention to the social and emotional life of children.

Daniel Goleman, psychologist and author of the book Emotional Intelligence, speaks with The George Lucas Educational Foundation on how SEL is raising academic achievement, may help to close the achievement gap, and how SEL complements academics in raising well-rounded children for future success in higher education and the workplace. View The Value of Social Emotional Learning video. (6 min)