school should be where everyone feels comfortable and everyone should know that everyone's unique and you don't have to be perfect sel is really about the holistic development of young people social emotional learning to me provides students with purpose seo was a great foundation and catalyst for me it taught me to value education and value human connection social and emotional learning is the process by which children grow and develop their emotional lives and their relationships with social emotional learning gives the space where people can actually look at students as more than just numbers on a standardized
test we give people the space to explore who they are as people to look at their identity to to recognize how important relationships are and what it means to be a successful human not just a successful student in my classroom they are able to share the things that are personal to them they're able to celebrate one another's differences they're inclusive of each other despite what race social economic or gender they're from scl promotes academic achievement in effective ways raising test scores 11 percentile points it reduces anxiety and distress as well so it improves pro-social behavior
and how kids get along and attend in the classroom sel is rocket fuel it is the thing that can actually accelerate the advancement of our society when i think about a healthy environment for my daughter i'm looking at are those teachers engaged are they showing her to be an empathetic person when teachers are engaged and they have that engagement with the students the students are going to excel the educators the families the community members and the students agree that this is important how do we make sure that kids don't just get a segment of their
life where social emotional learning is important but they're getting that in all parts of their life right now we have untapped pool of talent and so the idea is to leverage sel in order to help young people realize those talents and thereby help the broader society and in fact the world we really can create schools that inspire that help students find their sense of self that helps students find their sense of purpose to learn how to relate to one another and to better prepare kids for wherever they choose to go in life with seo taught
you to step up when you needed to but also step back when you had to so you were creating space for yourself but also making space for others now we open a new chapter and the new chapter is inviting educators families young people scholars policy makers inviting the whole country into the dialogue about the kind of social and emotional development we want to promote for all of our children in the future you
