Working in close collaboration with the faculty of education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in February 2017 CASEL announced the publication of a
new report titled To Reach the Students, Teach the Teachers: A National Scan of Teacher Preparation and Social & Emotional Learning. CASEL funded the research for the report, the first-ever scan of teacher preparation related to SEL, as part of a grant from NoVo Foundation.
Read the Full Report: To Reach the Students, Teach the Teachers: A National Scan of Teacher Preparation and Social & Emotional Learning
CASEL recently interviewed Kim Schonert-Reichl, lead author of the study, where she discussed the importance of such a study, and summarized the methodology and key findings. [Read the interview]
WEBINAR SERIES
A three-part, interactive, webinar series was developed to discuss this landmark report. Part One – SEL in Teacher Education: Where are we now? aired in January; Part Two – Promoting SEL in Teacher Education aired in February; Part Three – SEL in Motion: Innovative SEL Programs is scheduled on March 10th.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
ABOUT DR. SCHONERT-REICHL
Dr. Schonert-Reichl is a renowned expert in the area of social and emotional learning (SEL) research with children and adolescents, particularly in relation to the identification of the processes and mechanisms that foster positive human qualities such as empathy, compassion, altruism, and resilience. For more than two decades, her research has focused on the social and emotional development of children and adolescents in school and community settings.
Kimberly Schonert-Reichl is an applied developmental psychologist and a professor in the Human Development, Learning, and Culture area in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is also the director of the Human Early Learning Partnership in the School of Population and Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. She began her career as a middle school teacher and then was a teacher for “at risk” adolescents in an alternative high school. She received her master’s from the University of Chicago and her doctorate from the University of Iowa. She was a National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the Clinical Research Training Program in Adolescence at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry.