Social and Emotional Learning Archives

Santa Fe middle school student support grants: three happy middle schoolers sitting and looking at notebook

Santa Fe area middle school student support grants

GRANT FOCUS: Middle School Student Support, Education, SEL, Youth Well-being, Santa Fe, New Mexico | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Nov. 1, 2025

Beyond Balance_how digital platforms can intentionally foster teen emotional development: happy male teenager with dark hair and glasses looking down at phone

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Opinion

Beyond balance: How digital platforms can intentionally foster teen emotional development

What if digital platforms actively fostered the social and emotional learning and skills teens need to thrive?

Shifting the culture of youth sports by supporting coaches: young female blonde coach high-fives girl at sports practice with team in background

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From the Field

Shifting the culture of youth sport by supporting coaches

To incorporate positive youth development principles, coaching must be about more than drills and playbooks.

Reimagining youth sport_putting positive youth development first: group of young boys in green training bibs huddled together smiling and talking

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Opinion

Reimagining youth sport: Putting positive youth development first

Youth sport can grounded in principles of positive youth development with a little support.

disadvantaged youth sports equipment grants

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Grants

Grants to create/renovate youth sports spaces in underserved communities

GRANT FOCUS: Youth Sports, Youth Development, Physical Activity, SEL, Underserved Communities | Amount: $50,000 - $100,000 | Deadline: Aug. 29, 2025

From anxiety to connection_youth mental health and social skills: young female teen talks in group setting

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From the Field

Q&A: From anxiety to connection: How Wyman helps teens build social skills

Youth Today spoke with Williams to learn more about Wyman's Teen Connection Project.

school discipline and student behavior: Black woman with tattoo on right forearm wearing white blouse and key lanyard ID gesturing with hands stands facing white teen boy wearing red plaid shirt

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Opinion

Connection and co-regulation precede self-management: A common sense approach to learning, development and discipline

Self-control is not built through discipline/punishment; but cultivated through relationships, trust, and co-regulation.

youth and technology, social media use, tiktok, youth mental health: young person laying down opening TikTok on phone

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Grants

Grants to alleviate tech-driven pressures on youth development

GRANT FOCUS: Youth Mental Health/Well-being, Youth Development, Technology, SEL | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Oct. 1, 2024

social and emotional learning, SEL: Black teen girl with brown hair in white top sits next to Black woman with brown hair in tan jacket and white top on light couch. Woman holds girl around shoulders.

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Opinion

Want to close America’s learning gaps? First, strengthen students’ relationships

SEL is not a distraction from academics, but a tool that helps build relationships.

Karen Pittman opinion: Black woman with dark-frame glasses an hair pulled back stands leaning against wood porch railing wearing dark jacket and colorful scarf with greenery in the background.

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Opinion

Why does public education require public schools?

How can we help schools find opportunities to assess and adjust their roles?

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Opinion

Americans say character education is schools’ top job. So why do they think no one else cares?

A private opinion study helps show what Americans think about character education in schools.

developing social and emotional competencies in OST programs: happy youths sitting on ground clapping

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► Reports

Skills for success: developing social and emotional competencies in out-of-school-time programs

A new report discusses how OST programs can effectively incorporate SEL instruction and practices.

Home-based child care research, early childhood wellness and development grants: mother teaching child things with crayons and paper

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Early childhood wellness and development program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Child Health/Welfare, Child Development, Early Childhood, SEL | Amount: Up to $800,000 | Deadline: Mar. 21, 2023

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News

As educators tout the benefits of social and emotional learning, sparse research exists on how to actually teach it

Social and emotional learning has emerged from the pandemic as a top priority for many schools and afterschool and summer programs in...

teacher mental health support: young woman teacher sits on bench in school hallway looking out window in thought

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School districts move to ease teacher stress, burnout

School districts have provided increased mental health training for staff, classroom support as well as resources and systems aimed at identifying burned...

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► Newsmakers

David Shapiro to lead YMCA of Greater Boston after 18 years at MENTOR

David Shapiro will become the 14th president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston, succeeding James Morton, who has led the...

AL, GA, FL child/youth education development grants; happy children sitting on floor in classroom

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Grants

Alabama, Georgia, Florida child and youth education grants

GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Development, Education, Social/Emotional Learning, Alabama | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Nov. 15, 2021 (letters of inquiry)