Policy Report: Social and Emotional Learning
Policy Report: Social & Emotional Learning
Social and emotional skills are crucial for all of us to thrive in today’s unpredictable world. Thus, social and emotional learning (SEL) has become a top priority on the agendas of education stakeholders in many countries. From an equity perspective, ensuring that every child has access to SEL requires a systemic approach and a strong commitment from those responsible for formulating educational policies. This policy report is aimed at policymakers eager to widen their understanding, address the challenges and increase the opportunities for social-emotional learning in their education system. The report is a joint effort by HundrED and the LEGO Foundation to highlight relevant research, share key challenges and showcase successful solutions implemented across the world.
Spotlight: Social & Emotional Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed a global discussion of the importance of schools and teachers for supporting children social and emotional learning. Policymakers, school administrators, and teachers are working to reconceptualise approaches to teaching and learning that help students develop skills for setting goals, managing behaviour, and building relationships, within and beyond the classroom. In order for education systems to truly develop the broad set of competencies young people need to thrive socially, academically, and professionally, students need to develop a range of social and emotional skills.
Social and emotional skills help us to handle our impulses, manage and speak about emotions, and build healthy relationships. After the mass trauma caused by the pandemic, we all need these skills more than ever. But how can we increase social and emotional skills in children throughout the globe in a systematic way? HundrED and The LEGO Foundation have partnered in this Spotlight project to identify impactful and scalable solutions that help parents and educators support the development of children’s social and emotional skills.
Policymakers need to be attentive to the work innovators are doing on the ground.
As education policymakers around the world contemplate the changes we should make to education there is much to consider. From digitising education to making up for learning loss, or even restoring prior funding levels for education - challenges abound.
One of the most important, but sometimes less focal, areas of education is social and emotional learning. Social and emotional skills are critical for all of us to thrive in today’s unpredictable world. Thus, social and emotional learning (SEL) has become a top priority on the agendas of education stakeholders in many countries. From an equity perspective, ensuring that every child has access to SEL requires a systemic approach and a strong commitment from those responsible for formulating educational policies.
Inspiring strategies that address how to implement social and emotional learning innovations at scale.
This policy report is aimed at policymakers eager to widen their understanding, address these challenges and increase the opportunities for social and emotional learning in their education system. The report is a joint effort by HundrED and the LEGO Foundation to highlight relevant research, share key challenges, and showcase successful solutions implemented across the world.
In this report, you will find concrete implementation strategies and 13 examples of impactful and scalable education innovations currently working to foster SEL skills in students. We gratefully acknowledge this report would not exist without the innovators who have long invested in building and improving education. Our hope is that this report will inspire policymakers to support innovations working to support SEL in students around the world.
