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New Resources Help Build Emotional Intelligence of Adults and Youth
Out-of-school settings offer great opportunities for social and emotional learning, and we continue to hear demand from practitioners for resources that specifically help to build empathy and regulate emotions. SCE is pleased to support two new ...
Digital Learning Connects Youth to Opportunity
EdSurge featured two of our Reclaiming Digital Futures partners Digital Harbor Foundation (DHF) and Dream Yard in a new article about how youth are developing cutting edge skills to prepare them for future employment opportunities. While ...
New Report Details Influences on Occupational Identity in Adolescents
The rising generation is indeed thinking about their place in the future workforce. But the question is much bigger than the age old, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” How do young ...
WMCAT Gets Local Attention for Reclaiming Digital Futures
Grand Rapids Business Journal recently spotlighted Western Michigan Center for Arts and Technology (WMCAT) for their participation and contributions to create the Reclaiming Digital Futures report and toolkit. The article focuses on WMCAT’s specific depth of ...
Is “Screen Time” Too Outdated and Out of Sync With Reality?
The New York Times reported on findings released by social and data scientist in the journal Human-Computer Interaction. The researchers say that the phrase, or even the concept of what we think of as “screen time”, ...
Can Sports Play Help Protect Against Damages of Childhood Trauma? Research says, YES!
In their latest Public Health story, NPR’s Susie Neilson shed some light on the conversation about lasting effects of youth sports participation. Pediatrician Molly Easterlin played sports most of her childhood and attributes many of her ...
SCE Board Trustee Instructs Harvard Law Students on the Art of Asking the Right Questions
Harvard Law Today recently published an article featuring SCE Board Trustee Martha Minow. The story focuses on Minow’s last lecture to the 2019 graduating class of Harvard Law School. She is a former dean of the ...
Is Technology Immersion Making Social and Emotional Learning More Important Now Than Ever Before?
This week’s EdSurge podcast delves into a 2018 Pew Research study on teens’ social and emotional experiences in the digital age. The report looks at whether teenage angst and the struggle through those awkward years is ...