TOPIC: Social and Emotional Development and Social Skills
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- Applying an equity lens to social, emotional, and academic development
- Benefits, Mechanisms, and New Directions for Teaching Gratitude to Children
- Building Blocks for Learning:
A Framework for Comprehensive Student Development
- Building Services & Systems to Support the Health Emotional Development of Young Children - An Action Guide for Policymakers
- Can We Measure Classroom Supports for Social-Emotional Learning?
- Character Education Project Evaluation Findings
- Children and Loneliness
- Compassion and Empathy in Educational Contexts
- A compassion framework: the role of compassion in schools in promoting well-being and supporting the social and emotional development of children and young people
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Compassion: How do You Teach it?
- Connecting Teacher Practice with Social and Emotional Learning
- Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs for Preschool and Elementary Schools.
- Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth
- Fostering healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral development in children and youth: A
national agenda
- Embedding Social and Emotional Learning in High School Classrooms
- Emotional Competence During Childhood and Adolescence
- Emotional, developmental, behavioral health of American children and their families: a report from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health (2006) L. Blanchard, et al, Pediatrics, 117(6) e1202-e1212
- Enacting Social-Emotional Learning
- Enacting social emotional learning: Practices and supports
- Everyday Ideas for Increasing Children's Opportunities to Practice Social and Emotional Competence
- Gratitude in Youth: A Review of Gratitude Interventions and Some Ideas for Applications
- Healthy Mental and Emotional Development
- Helping Young Children Understand Emotions When Wearing Masks
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How Families Can Support Social and Emotional Climate and Learning
- How to teach empathy to kids
- Informational Resources on Improving Social and Emotional Learning and Outcomes
- Toolkit for Schools: Engaging Parents and Families to Support Social and Emotional Climate
and Learning
- Measuring Youth Participation, Program Quality, and Social and Emotional Skills in After-School Programs
- Positive Action: Positive Development for Schools, Families, and Communities
- Preparing Youth to Thrive: Promising Practices in Social and Emotional Learning
- Promoting Positive Youth Development Through School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Effects
- Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in the Middle and High School Years
- Reflecting on Social Emotional Learning: A Critical Perspective on Trends in the US
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The Relationship Between Gratitude and Happiness in Young Children
- The relationship between perceived stress and depressive symptoms in adolescents during high stress: The moderating role of emotion regulation
- School-wide Discipline, Behavior Management, and Student Self-Management: Focusing on Social Skills Instruction and Selecting an Evidence-based Social Skills Program
- Social and Emotional Climate and Learning
- Social-Emotional Competence: An Essential Factor For Promoting Positive Adjustments and Reducing Risk in School Children
- Social & Emotional Development in Adolescence AGES 11––21 YEARS
- Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood: What Every Policymaker Should Know
- Social & Emotional Development in Middle Childhood AGES 5––10 YEARS
- Social and Emotional learning in Elementary School
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School-Related Social Support as a Buffer to Stressors in the Development of Adolescent Life
Satisfaction
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Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Needs.
- Supporting Evidence-based SEL Programs: What State Policymakers Can Do
- SSS: Social Skill Strategies
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Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral and Mental Health during COVID-19 Era
- Teaching empathy: Evidence-based tips for fostering empathy in children
- Tools for addressing loneliness
- What Works for Promoting and Enhancing Positive Social Skills
- When Youth Are Experts in the Field
- With A Little Help from My Friends: The Importance of Peer Relationships For Social-Emotional Development
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