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The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens
SCE partner Common Sense Media recently released a new report showing widely varying media habits of youth ages 8-18. The shockers? Tweens spend on average 6 hours a day using media Teens spend on averge 9 ...
SCE partner Games for Change challenges youth to make digital games about real-world issues
Games for Change, the leading organization dedicated to celebrate the power of digital games for learning and civic engagement, has teamed up with the NYC Department of Education for a game design challenge for public middle ...
SCE partners with Gooru to advance 21st century skills
Success in the 21st century requires more than academic achievement alone. Thriving involves a new set of skills, including adaptation, problem solving, emotional intelligence, digital literacy and above all, learning how to learn both in the ...
SCE: Our Story, Model, and Mission
Emotional intelligence has matured from a buzzword, or an exciting-yet-untried idea. Now there’s data to back it up. Daniel Goleman has been studying it since the 1990’s, and so have University of New Hampshire’s John Mayer ...
Decoding the art of practice: an update on the SEL Challenge
How do young people learn to thrive? This is the driving question behind SCE’s Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Challenge, which aims to decode the art of teaching youth the skills for defining their path in life. ...
And the SEL Challenge winners are…
SCE Announces the Social and Emotional Learning Challenge Partners For the next 18 months, eight informal learning programs for teens—ranging from a wooden boat building program in Philadelphia to a performing arts/community action hub in New ...
SCE partners with the Weikart Center to find best strategies in SEL
We are pleased to announce that the Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality will be the evaluation partner on SCE’s Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Challenge. This open, national challenge seeks to explore and expand the ...
Why resilience, empathy, self-regulation, agency, and grit?
Thriving in the 21st century world requires a robust skill set. At SCE, we believe this toolkit includes social and emotional skills such as grit, resilience, empathy, self-regulation and agency. Through our most recent initiative, the ...