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This excerpt from SEL From a Distance explains what the systemic behavior gap is and how to avoid it. 

Featured on the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast, Episode #91. Jessica and John Hannigan, authors of SEL From a Distance, discuss how the switch to distance learning combined with recent instances of racial injustice has put a spotlight on the cracks in the practice of social and emotional learning (SEL).

In this chapter from Great Teaching by Design, the authors discuss that we can implement what works best by explicitly uncovering where our learners are in their learning journey, learning from research, and continuously evaluating the impact of our decisions on learning.

This table from Great Teaching by Design contains several ideas to "hack" a classroom or remote learning space, in order to set up the best environment for student learning.

"When students engage in PBL, they should gain skills that will help them solve a wide array of problems, not just the problem at hand." Read the full article by Michael McDowell, author of Developing Expert Learners, on Edutopia.

"As students gain content knowledge, their next step should be applying it to new problems and across academic disciplines." Read the full article by Michael McDowell, author of Developing Expert Learners, on Edutopia.

"This challenging time provides an opportunity for students to work on real-world problems they see every day." Read the full article by Michael McDowell, author of Developing Expert Learners, on Edutopia.

"Young people dealing with the effects of the pandemic can be encouraged through lessons that inspire resilience." Read the full article by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, author of Just Ask Us, on Edutopia.

"The need to partner with caregivers is even more important now with so many students learning at home." Read the full article by Heather Wolpert-Gawron, author of Just Ask Us, on Edutopia.

In this excerpt from The Poverty Problem, discover how a strange sequence of events and one individual’s
arbitrary decision shaped the nation’s thinking and behavior toward poverty.

"Girls’ lives are hard and, let’s face it, adults don’t really understand what girls are going through.  Sure, we might know what it’s like to be a teenager, to struggle with academic or family issues, or to deal with complicated friendships or relationships. But we don’t know what it is like to be a girl today—trying to figure herself out, getting ridiculed and judged on social media, constantly comparing herself to others, never quite feeling good enough, and so afraid to fail that she is plagued with stress and anxiety on a daily basis." Read the full post on Corwin Connect.

Presented by Voyager Sopris. Horacio Sanchez discusses how poverty is the single most significant event impacting education today. The brain transformations resulting from poverty speak to the heart of the academic and behavioral issues schools seek to overcome. The neuroscience of poverty provides a clear picture of why academic and behavioral problems occur in relation to poverty and how to design a more precise response to best address the issues.