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As schools adopt SEL curriculum, it is vital that this learning doesn’t occur in a vacuum. For students to develop lasting social-emotional skills, schools must do their best to provide parents and guardians with the information, language, and tools they need to continue learning at home.  Recently, three members of the Thriving YOUniversity team sat…

According to Harvard’s Kernels of Practice for SEL: Low-Cost, Low-Burden Strategies, social-emotional learning is most effective when delivered in “bite-size” servings, or as Harvard refers to them, “kernels” of SEL: “Kernels have been shown to be effective for a range of outcomes tied to academic achievement and social adjustment, including classroom behavior, discipline, self-control, and…