Social and Emotional Learning is changing the education landscape, giving students a real opportunity to flourish.
Why Social and Emotional Learning?
- Improvement in pro-social behavior
- Improvement in Attitudes about Self, Others, and School
- Reduction in Problem Behaviors
- Reduction in Emotional Distress
- Increase in Standardized Achievement Test Scores
- Increase in Social and Emotional Skills
SEL participants:
- demonstrated a 6% increase in high school graduation rates
- demonstrated an 11% increase in college graduation rates
- were less likely to have a clinical mental health disorder
- were less likely to ever be arrested or become involved with the juvenile justice system
- had lower rates of sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancies
"We can’t learn in the absence of dealing with our emotional state...Not only that, I don’t know of anybody that can learn in the absence of a positive relationship. We learn from the people we care about."
– Dr. Maurice Elias
The Urban Assembly Resilient Scholars Program is a guided implemention process from the Urban Assembly: a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting social and economic mobility by providing youth with the academic and life skills necessary for postsecondary success.
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