Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an educational process that aims to help children develop social and emotional life skills. These include managing difficult emotions, dealing with stress, ...

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are ...

At Lakewood Elementary, fourth- and fifth-grade students are reading a book and discussing the plot. One of the students suddenly raises a flag: He is keeping track of how long kids have been sitting ...

Kimberly Hillier receives funding from WE-SPARK Health Institute. With the new school year here, parents and caregivers of young children may be experiencing heightened emotions and anxieties about ...

Imagine you are 4 years old. You are given the choice of eating one marshmallow now or receiving two marshmallows if you wait. What would you do? Source: Thinkstock In a now-famous series of studies, ...