Aspen’s newest social-emotional learning offering gives cause for pause
Having recently unburdened ourselves of seven large gobbets of advice for the champions of today’s surging interest in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), we intend occasionally to point to developments that strike us as problematic or promising. Our goal isn’t to point fingers—though that can be kind of fun. It’s because we see a clear and present danger that SEL could go off the rails in any number of ways, and wind up compromising academic instruction or serving to advance ideological causes and agendas.