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Emotions Steer Thinking: Emotion + Thinking = Cognitive Development

WHY SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS KEY! SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING The Center for Responsive Schools, CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning)) and the State Department of Education to name a few, believe that teaching social and emotional learning (SEL) competencies is as important as teaching academic competencies. Actually, based upon what we now know about how …

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“If it doesn’t Challenge You, It doesn’t Change You.” Fred DeVito

As the school doors opened this August we all knew there would be changes due to the impact of COVID 19. Given that schools closed abruptly in the Spring of 2020 educators like parents weren’t ready for the massive change that hit us overnight. Educators just like students and parents wish they could return to …

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