Research shows that young people thrive when they are experiencing strong developmental relationships with the adults in their lives. These relationships are important for all young people, regardless of race, gender, ability, or economic background. When young people experience supportive developmental relationships in their families, schools, programs, and communities, they are more likely to develop resilience when they face challenges and to grow and thrive.
What are developmental relationships, and what young people have to say about it?
July 27, 2022 •This crucial life skill improves with classroom practice—and many students may benefit from a refresher.
June 30, 2022 •California has long been famous for its creativity, the engine driving everything from the entertainment industry to the tech sector. But decades of budget cuts and a laser focus on core subjects have pushed the state’s public schools to cut arts education to the bone over the years.
Now, two years of trauma during a pandemic that’s stolen more than a million lives and the fresh horrors of a spate of mass shootings, experts say, underscore the pressing need for more paths to social-emotional learning in schools.
June 30, 2022 •When it comes to crafting economic policy, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, choice, and competition have reigned supreme among policymakers for decades. Sociologist Elizabeth Popp Berman says that this style of economic reasoning—prioritizing efficiency above all else—makes good ideas seem like bad policy.
June 30, 2022 •It was our last History Methods class of the year. To start, I shared a statistic—not the typical depressing report of what’s wrong with education like often cited rates of teacher turnover, learning loss, or mental health. Instead, I shared the promising news that life expectancy rates for Latinos are higher than for Whites despite the structural inequities that Latinos face like poverty, difficult work environments, and less access to healthcare.
June 30, 2022 •“I have preached far and wide that we need a new story for assessment — one that can’t be encapsulated in single numbers and class ranks. Assessment is a story.”
June 30, 2022 •The authors present a systematic review of elementary school universal school-based (USB) social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions from 2008 through 2020 for two groups of minoritized students in education research and practice: students with disabilities and/or minoritized racial identities.
June 30, 2022 •Monuments for individuals and events, the honorary names of schools, streets, or buildings, and the selection of team mascots have long been the focus of controversy and conflict. Even monuments that have been in parks for longer than anyone can remember, the ones we hardly notice at all, have become a source of sometimes contentious public discussion.
All of these choices ask important questions about the values that a community holds, how we remember the story of our past, and who we want to become together.
June 30, 2022 •This article will examine the nature and place of strong emotion related to deep identity differences that may be part of deliberative processes and dialogue that can augment deliberation by engaging emotion in useful ways.
June 30, 2022 •The level of exchange in dialogue can vary from polite discussion of a topic to deep engagement with a defined “other” characterized by exquisite listening, honest speaking, and empathic connection. This article describes processes for self-reflection that can help dialogue participants resist social and cultural pressures to polarize, step back from damaging communication patterns, develop greater insight, and expand their capacity for constructive communication.
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