If your family is like most since the pandemic began, you miss your friends, your social activities, and the day-to-day interactions that connect you to your community. It’s worse for children. For children, missing out on these experiences can take a serious toll. Research shows that children who experience long periods of loneliness or isolation are three times more likely to suffer from depression as adults. Kids learn how the world works and how they can best interact wit

If your kids or students have participated in Destination Imagination (DI) for a while, you may have seen them improve their social and emotional skills. As a parent who managed 22 DI teams over 15 years, I certainly noticed that social and emotional behaviours improved in most of the students who were on my teams (including my own children), but I didn’t understand how it was happening. As I became more aware of the educational pedagogy behind DI and was exposed to the socia

Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been getting a lot of attention in the media lately, especially as school districts are deciding how or when to open for in-person learning. While social-emotional skills, also known as soft skills, are vital to our students’ futures, you may be wondering which skills and behaviors you need to be looking for in your students. CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) defines social-emotional learning as “the process