This one pager summarizes three reports about summer learning and how it supports the Common Core State Standards, social-emotional learning and teacher and staff training and preparation. The full reports can be found at SummerMatters2You.net.
An overview of and commentary on the relationship between social emotional learning and academic achievement, including research findings.
An article focused on teachers’ own social and emotional learning. Describes promising interventions for promoting teacher SEL competencies and strategies educators can use to promote SEL in their students.
A review of the literature on noncognitive factors on school performance – working from the idea that learning is an interplay between cognitive and noncognitive factors and that intelligence is embedded in both the environment and in socio-cultural processes.
Farrington, C.A., Roderick, M., Allensworth, E., Nagaoka, J., Keyes, T.S., Johnson, D.W., & Beechum, N.O. (2012).
