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How ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ Became the Newest Battleground in the Classroom Wars
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English - May 01, 2022 16:27 - 11 minutes - 20.2 MB - ★★★★ - 63 ratingsDaily News News Society & Culture spokenlayer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Wendy Turner sees social and emotional learning as central to everything she does in her classroom, from how she welcomes her second-graders each morning to how she guides them through math activities.
"It's the base layer of education," says Turner, a teacher at Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington, Del., who was named Delaware's Teacher of the Year in 2017.