Social Emotional Learning

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

Date: 1965

Person(s): President Lyndon B. Johnson and Ms. Kate Diedrich

Reform: This law created funding for low socioeconomic schools in hopes to bridge the achievement gap. This law labeled schools as Title 1, a provision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 2017, para.1)

Why?: This law was created to provide schools with resources for staff development, instructional materials and parental involvement (Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 2017, para.1). Providing low socioeconmic schools with funding fosters students to have the opportunity for social and emotional learning as well as academic opportunities.

Karen McCown

Date: 1967

Person: Karen McCown.

Reform: In 1967, Karen McCown founded the Nueva School. Karen was born the daughter of two teachers and felt that nothing in education was geared toward gifted students, only those students on the opposite end of the spectrum. She formed the Nueva School with a strong academic curriculum but also focused on "self-science", also know as social and emotional learning. In the beginning, the school only provided services to kindergarten through second grade. Since the doors opened, it has expanded to a K-12 campus. Classes at the school are offered strictly to promote social emotional learning (History, 2016, para 1).

Why?: Karen McCown was not satisfied with student's social emotional learning as well as academic learning being met. She met with many psychologists and experts before opening the Nueva School to foster higher quality social emotional learning or self-science.

Date: 1994

Persons:Sheldon Berman, Superintendent of Schools, Hudson, MA

Patricia Caesar, President and CEO, Caesar Consulting Group

Maurice Elias, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University

Daniel Goleman, CASEL co-founder, author of Emotional Intelligence

Mark T. Greenberg, Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, Penn State University

Eileen R. Growald, Venture Philanthropist

Norris M. Haynes, Professor of Counseling and School Psychology, Southern Connecticut State University

Janice Jackson, Assistant Professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College

Linda Lantieri, Director, Inner Resilience Program

Beverly Benson Long, Immediate Past President, World Federation for Mental Health

JoAnn B. Manning, Vice President of Program Implementation, Platform Learning

Mary Utne O’Brien, Research Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago

Janet Patti, Professor, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Hunter College

Terry Pickeral, Executive Director, National Center for Learning and Citizenship, Education Commission of the States

Timothy P. Shriver, Chair, Special Olympics

David J. Sluyter, Senior Advisor, Fetzer Institute

Herbert J. Walberg, Professor Emeritus, Education and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Roger P. Weissberg, Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago

Joseph E. Zins, Professor, College of Education, University of Cincinnati

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Reform: CASEL (Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning) is formed in 1994. The researchers met together to develop a framework that promoted anti-drug use, positive behaviors, healthy choices and school-community relationships to name a few. CASEL is designed to assist public schools in providing students with social emotinal learning while aligning with school programs (History. (n.d.), para.3)

Why?: Researchers were concerned for the lack of social emotional learning happening in public schools. They felt the programs currently being provided were ineffective and lacked alignment (History. (n.d.). para.2).