“Social and Emotional Learning.” It sounds so innocuous, so appropriate and positive. School officials and policy makers are asking: How could any parent oppose the development of social and emotional skills? But parents are growing more and more alarmed – and for very good reasons.
Social Emotional Learning, often referred to as SEL, has changed over time. Originally, the goal of SEL was to promote morally neutral soft-skills such as self-awareness, self-management, empathy, and goal setting.
In 2020, everything changed with the shift to “Transformative SEL.”
Resources
Social Emotional Learning Livestream
Opting Out
Curriculum Alternatives
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) 101
Incidents
Moorpark Unified School District provides resources for parents to educate their children in antiracism and gender ideology; promotes social emotional resources from CASEL
Savannah-Chatham County Public School System Pays over $95,000 to Panorama Education For SEL Surveys
Penn High School’s Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum Includes Lesson On Microagressions
Fairfax County increases five-year contract to $2.4 million to Panorama Education, a government contractor cofounded by son-in-law of U.S. Attorney General
Coventry Public Schools cite “Panorama Education” in strategic plan as measure for social-emotional learning (SEL)
Emails reveal plans to integrate LGBTQ curriculum into elementary school during SEL lessons; $25K grant secured to secure “Rainbow Liaison at EVERY school” in Howard County Public Schools
San Juan Unified School District implements “8 Point Commitment Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum” to include “Identity Safe Zones,” mandatory antiracism training
Penn High School gives teachers SEL lesson on “Racism and Anti-Racism”; shows “Pyramid of White Supremacy” that leads to genocide
Flandreau Public Schools principal calls student into office for questioning “pride” flag; school district uses Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) material from group pushing equity in classrooms
Pulaski County Special School District votes to hire two outside consultants in the name of Social Emotional Learning: Panorama Education and QuaverEd.
Manhattan Beach Unified School District promotes Social Emotional Learning by celebrating “SEL Week”; commissions equity audit that recommends the school district adopt the “Social Justice Standards”
Investigations
‘National School Counseling Week 2022’ reveals how K-12 schools increasingly try to get into children’s heads with activist agendas
‘Black Lives Matter at School’ in K-12 Classrooms Nationwide in 2022
Panorama Education Inc.
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Media
June 10
President Joe Biden celebrated “International Social Emotional Learning Day” Friday, saying, “I believe the government has a responsibility to support you.”…
June 10
National organizations, equity consultants and public school districts are using mental health initiatives to push what critics decry as the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), including “social and emotional…
June 10
A public school system in Georgia spent over $95,000 to conduct a “social-emotional learning” survey on students led by an educational organization operated by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s son-in-law.
June 10
During the pandemic, Traci Spiegel’s son and most of his Howard County, Md., classmates received virtually no mathematics instruction for five months.
June 10
A trendy new progressive education concept would prioritize gauzy (likely left-wing) ‘character development’ at schools over actual learning.