“SEL has five major components: self-awareness, self management, social management – the skills we use to manage relationships — and responsible decision making. There used to be this notion that you had your cognition — your rational side, your frontal brain — and you had your emotional side — you're limbic system — and they just fought for each other for dominance over decisions. But we now know that's not the case. Your emotions are deeply entwined with what you're paying attention to, how you're encoding information and memories. And your cognition is deeply entwined with how you're processing your emotions. And so this idea of the integration of social and emotional, and academic development is not just a catchphrase, it's really reflective of how we grow as human beings, incorporating and taking in cognition, emotion, as well as trying to solve problems.” — David Adams

1. Given COVID and the trauma that many students carry, how can we best help to heal them?

2. What is social-emotional learning (SEL) and how is it used to support students?

3. What makes human interactions so critical, and why are students having difficulty establishing relationships after COVID-19?

4. How are academics and emotion intertwined to benefit students?

5. How do SEL skills help the school community?

CASEL - Collaborative for Academic and Social Emotional Learning

Zone of Proximal Development

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory

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