What Are Social-Emotional Learning Programs?
Social-emotional learning programs are structured programs that schools use to help children learn the social-emotional skills needed to resolve conflicts, deal with bullying, handle intense emotions, and live in a world that is often intimidating. “Social-emotional learning can change the climate of a school,” says Linda Lendman, M.S.W., family coordinator at the Rand Family School in Montclair, New Jersey. “Issues like fighting and bullying are typical. The schools that have handled them the most successfully have integrated social-emotional instruction into their curriculum.
