SEL has been around for almost 30 years, but the coronavirus brought it to the attention of many people who had never heard of it before. A recent survey in the US strives to better understand the opinions of educators, principals, and parents regarding SEL.
“A depressed boy cannot wait six months for treatment. Parents of a girl who is dealing with severe loneliness cannot wait a year to receive guidance on how to help their daughter,” Dr. Daphne Kopelman-Rubin writes in this opinion column that appeared in Ynet.
We all are thrilled to stop wearing masks in classrooms and schools, but some of us will continue to deal with repercussions that can sometimes be difficult to see. Schools can help students adapt and provide an appropriate response.
Two minutes on the importance of learning social-emotional skills as early as preschool. Dr. Daphne Kopelman-Rubin presents findings from a study she and Dr. Inna Kats-Gold conducted in preschools in the Israeli city of Ness Ziona.
Dr. Daphe Kopelman-Rubin has a fascinating conversation with Tzachi Hanania on his podcast, Educational Aliens. They discuss SEL and its importance to educational systems, among other topics.
Daphne Kopelman-Rubin is interviewed on Radio Tel Aviv on Monday, November 2, 2020, about the importance of SEL to success in school and in life as well as how SEL can help students who returned to school this week.
SEL.IL is part of an education revolution in Israel, Dr. Daphne Kopelman-Rubin writes in an article that The Marker published on August 29, 2021, just before the start of the school year.
SEL is a dynamic, evolving process so it is important to relate to it from a developmental perspective. This article presents key concepts for understanding the developmental axis, with an emphasis on the development of social-emotional skills.
CASEL, the leading organization in the US promoting SEL, has updated its conceptual framework. Education systems in many countries around the world, including Israel to a large extent, rely on the CASEL framework. The new framework emphasizes the importance of socio-cultural sensitivity, equality and fairness, trust, and cooperative, authentic relationships between families, educational systems and communities. The new concepts in the framework are reflected in some updates of social-emotional skills.
The journal Children & Schools (Oxford University Press) published a study examining sense of belonging among middle-school students in Israel. Conducted by Dr. Daphne Kopelman-Rubin, Noa Weiss, Dr. Inna Kats-Gold, and Dr. Alana Siegel, the study examined the relationship between emotion regulation and psychosocial difficulties among adolescents with specific learning disorder (SLD) and the impact their sense of school belonging had on this.
2X10 equals 20. But this simple, effective pedagogic practice to cultivate SEL can be worth much more than the sum of its parts. Teachers simply dedicate two minutes a day to one student for 10 consecutive days.
A summary of the position paper, Social-Emotional Aspects of Online Learning – Challenges, Skills and Tools. The summary presents principles and recommendations for how educators can continue to respond to students’ social-emotional needs during remote learning.