The Big List of Social & Emotional Learning

Separating fact from artifice in Rx ads is a quick lesson in media literacy.

Turn your school into a marketplace of ideas.

Salem blends schmaltz and scholarship when dealing with its infamous witchcraft trials.

Social networking offers a competitive advantage in the newest interactive-oriented job market.

In Sicily, a creative teacher finds a novel and hip way to make Latin stick.

Visual Thinking Strategies blazes a path from artistic inquiry to scholastic achievement.

When it comes to learning real-life lessons, fictional characters offer a strategy all their own.

Industry professionals want to help youth avoid the budget mistakes of their elders.

Cash and prizes boost student performance -- but is the means worth the ends?

Communities and schools unite to meet the needs of the whole child.

Teachers can create moments of calm in the midst of classroom bustle -- and help students learn better.

High schoolers, feeling unprepared for college and the workplace, take college courses.

Character education hones social and emotional skills.

Be inquisitive today to keep the door open to tomorrow's possibilities.

In Macedonia, a radical approach to teaching tolerance brings healing to students who live together but are worlds apart.

Students can effectively discourage bad behavior among their peers.

Teachers can integrate powerful lessons from the multiage classroom into their single-grade classroom.

As more parents refuse vaccines for their kids, health officials worry.

In the hardscrabble farmlands of rural India, dance and song help build pride for impoverished children.

Kids learn to shape up, circus style.

Roll over, dodgeball. Bold new activities put the fizz back in phys ed.

The experts (and most kids) declare U.S. math education "broken."

Garrison Keillor brings stanza and sonnet to life with the Writer's Almanac radio show.

Teachers use physical activity to teach lessons.

When a teacher takes a stand against plagiarism, the ensuing showdown can be painful.

An alarming number of teens surveyed condone violence.

A hip and homespun podcast about sex education is a hit with teens.

Three exemplary schools reveal the shape of things to come.

Autistic students in the Stepping Stone preschool program get the best of both worlds.

Mothers got this charter school off the ground, and now it's flying high.

Handheld technology gives autistic students a learning boost -- and a social one.

A region in California combines public and private education to serve all its needy students.

As the number of special-needs students soars, public schools grapple with ways to offer high-quality education without going broke.

Something is lost when little red wagons and mud pies make way for worksheets and tests.

Helping students develop a sense of self will ultimately help them to better manage their emotions, communicate, and resolve conflicts nonviolently.

Integrating social and emotional learning across the curriculum helps make a secure learning environment.

With a presidential election on the horizon, teaching about our country takes on new importance.

Canadian students are taught to look for the real meanings in the daily barrage of information.

One man's simple plan to expand worldwide literacy, thousands of libraries at a time.

For an American mother living in Stockholm, innovative preschool education makes the long, dark winters tolerable.

A mile high in the Tyrolean Alps, a tiny school uses technology to reach out to the wider world -- and sheer pluck to keep teaching alive.

In Chile, where education resists innovation, a small, determined charter school is going mano a mano with the status quo.

In the Ugandan countryside, dedicated educators bring the printed word to students desperate for access to the wider world.

Explore the many ways students are taught around the world.

Gay students seek protection from bullies.

Helping students become part of the environmental solution.

A dim economic future lies ahead for high school dropouts and their communities.

George Lucas and Daniel Goleman discuss the many ways that social and emotional learning enhance the education process.

A controversial flood-control plan in the fabled city portends similar problems worldwide.

A teacher must be bad at something to be good at teaching.

A former inner city teacher reflects on a devil's bargain.

While the celebrated HBO series turns its lens on the city's failing urban schools, one high school there strives for success.

Across the nation, powered by hope and supported by their teachers, students are helping scientists and others committed to protecting the environment. They use math and science skills, as well as keen eyes and patience, to collect data vital to understanding and healing the natural world. Join an existing project, or create one of your own.

A lesson plan for developing student awareness of their campus's degree of "greenliness."

Environmental leader Bill McKibben discusses grassroots solutions to climate change, and how to involve our children in the process.

Neuroscience shows that elephants are telling us a grim and vital story. Are we listening?

The terrifying consequences of climate change can spur student action, and not just despair.

A teen activist takes on the cosmetics industry and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Calculate your impact on the climate and learn how to tread lightly.

Our first environmental issue includes a roster of green heroes, plus lesson plans, service-learning opportunities, our Go Green Database, and more.

Turn fear to hope and action when discussing climate change with the next generation.

Extended classes enhance learning and achievement.

Disabled teachers bring a unique perspective to the classroom.

One mother’s continuing education in letting go.

How the dedication of one teacher helped a child learn to love education.

A Los Angeles theater group helps kids in the juvenile-justice system and foster care create dramas of their own design.

The wounds cyberbullies cause can run deep.

The best medical record is one you keep yourself.

The Smithsonian editor learns in the marines that he could go the distance.

A man with autism explores the treacherous landscape of his native language.

The scramble to get kids to return to high school is on.

Reluctant readers thrive when they read with Rover.

We can't thank you enough, but we'll try.

Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.

Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.

Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.

Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.

Guide Dogs for the Blind and Braille Is Beautiful team up to teach elementary schoolers about visual impairment.

Students around the planet save the planet.

A new game show asks the question Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

In the age of cyberbullying, a Stone Age tormentee looks back.

As more and more teens are diagnosed with mental illness, schools and health professionals struggle to hone a response.

Kids don't have to squirm to learn.

The People's Grocery links gardening, nutrition education, and after-school learning in a low-income neighborhood badly needing all three.

A dynamic online program brings puppets (and play) to the classroom.

In the muddy Vermont woods, teens discover science, community, and a newfound love of learning.

National Public Radio reporter Claudio Sánchez seeks out small trenches to tell the big stories of public education.

An autistic savant offers insights on his disorder, which more and more children are being diagnosed with each year.

Encouragement, learning, and teaching should always be interwoven.

Nilaja Sun's hit play No Child . . . brings the urban classroom to the stage -- and leaves the old clichés behind.

Today's over-scheduled kids could use some true play time.

Through dramatic work, students acquire tools for forming clear personal objectives, learn rhetorical strategies to achieve those objectives, and recognize when those strategies have succeeded or failed.

Higher philosophical thinking through drama.

Educators battle over single-sex schools.

Evoking a personal style that is part saucy, part proper, and totally brilliant.

San Francisco's colorful murals are stories of grace and struggle writ large.

Students need to increase their global awareness.

What if it is a small world after all?

For one veteran photographer, all the world's a learning experience.

A German exchange student reflects on what she learned, and loved, at an American high school.