History of Social Emotional Learning by Sydney D. B. https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf en-us 2022-07-08 01:38:51 UTC 2022-07-08 03:05:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Modern Origins 1960s-80s syd21598b https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239394281 In the late 1960s, during his early days at Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center, James Comer began piloting a program called the Comer School Development Program.

The School Development Program focused on two poor, low-achieving, predominately African American elementary schools in New Haven, Connecticut, that had the worst attendance and the lowest academic achievement in the city. With help from the program, the schools established a collaborative-management team composed of teachers, parents, the principal, and a mental health worker. The team made decisions on issues ranging from the schools' academic and social programs to how to change school procedures that seemed to be engendering behavior problems.

By the early 1980s, academic performance at the two schools exceeded the national average, and truancy and behavior problems had declined, adding momentum to the nascent SEL movement.

]]> 2022-07-08 02:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239394281 Rising Movement 1980s-90s syd21598b https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239398137 Weissberg, a professor of psychology at Yale, and Timothy Shriver, a Yale graduate and educator in the New Haven Public Schools worked between 1987 and 1992 (along with local educators) to establish the K-12 New Haven Social Development program.

In 1994, as the term social emotional learning was making its way into the lexicon, the organization CASEL was created under its original name, the Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning. That same year, the Fetzer Institute hosted the first CASEL conference with researchers, educators, child advocates, and others in the field.

The concept of SEL was propelled into the popular culture in 1995 with a book by New York Times science reporter Daniel Goleman. With support from Fetzer, Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, in which he argued that character matters and, more significantly, the skills that build character can be taught.]]> 2022-07-08 02:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239398137 CASEL Movement in the 2000s syd21598b https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239399770 In 2001, the board changed the name to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning to reflect the new research in the field and to make sure that academics were a part of the conversation. Weissberg went on to become and currently serves as president and CEO of CASEL.

CASEL's mission is "to establish social and emotional learning as an essential part of education." Initially, the organization focused on research that could build a body of data to convince schools and especially districts of SEL's efficacy. 

CASEL and many other organizations and universities continue to work to advance SEL in schools nationally and worldwide.
]]> 2022-07-08 02:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239399770 Comer in 1968 syd21598b https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239400563 In 1968, Dr. James Comer and his colleagues at Yale University’s Child Study Center began a program to put their ideas about supporting the “whole child” into practice at two schools in New Haven, Connecticut. By the early 1980s, the two schools saw a decline in behavior challenges and exceeded the national average in academic performance.]]> 2022-07-08 02:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239400563 CASEL in 1994 syd21598b https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239401468 In 1994, a passionate group of people came together to develop a field that would address the “missing piece” in education. The multidisciplinary collaboration included researchers, educators, practitioners, and child advocates who believed that schools must attend to all children’s social and emotional needs. The group emerged from their meetings with a name and a mission: Both CASEL and the term “social and emotional learning” were born.]]> 2022-07-08 02:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/syd21598b/hz08r3st9wmrkhtf/wish/2239401468