{"id":64612,"date":"2021-01-27T21:47:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casel.dev\/?p=64612"},"modified":"2021-08-19T19:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T19:42:46","slug":"a-better-way-forward-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casel.org\/a-better-way-forward-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Way Forward for Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL \u2013 From the pandemic to school closures to nationwide mobilization for racial justice, our nation&#8217;s headlines serve as an urgent call for social and emotional learning (SEL). CASEL has released 2020: SEL Year in Review, which reflects on the past year and shows that with SEL there is a better way forward for our communities, schools, and students. The top stories of 2020 remind us that the systems in which we learn, work, and live must promote healthy development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can find common cause and unity in prioritizing our youth and the systems in which they are educated,\u201d said CASEL President &amp; CEO Karen Niemi. \u201cSEL can serve as the antidote to much of what ails our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2020: SEL Year in Review features notable SEL headlines from the past year, including a look at how CASEL contributed to those efforts. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More focus than ever before on the overall social-emotional well-being of adults and students<\/li>\n<li>Global SEL market valued at approximately $1.3 billion<\/li>\n<li>Growing SEL research base with developments in adult SEL, assessment, school-based programs, and more<\/li>\n<li>Increase in state education departments prioritizing SEL<\/li>\n<li>SEL as part of our response to heightened and persistent inequities<\/li>\n<li>Educators emphasize SEL in the transition to distance and hybrid learning<\/li>\n<li>Renewed focus on learning environments and settings<\/li>\n<li>Correlation between widespread SEL adoption and broader education goals<\/li>\n<li>Support for young people speaking out on current events, issues of inequity, and learning expectations<\/li>\n<li>Positive federal attention to SEL from the incoming Biden administration<\/li>\n<li>Successful inaugural international SEL Day with commitments to SEL from nearly 2 million people in 50 states and 35 countries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL \u2013 From the pandemic to school closures to nationwide mobilization for racial justice, our nation&#8217;s headlines serve as an urgent call for social and emotional learning (SEL). CASEL has released 2020: SEL Year in Review, which reflects on the past year and shows that with SEL there is a better way forward for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-64612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66074,"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64612\/revisions\/66074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}