How Should Schools Support Social-Emotional Learning? Voices From Black and Latinx Families and Students

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Multiple Perspectives: Families' and Students' Voices on Social and Emotional Learning

Abstract

As social-emotional learning (SEL) policies are adopted more commonly by schools, efforts to do this through an equity lens are only more recently being explored. To date, however, the voices of Black and Latinx families have been missing in the larger policy narrative. This paper seeks to fill this gap by reporting results from a large-scale qualitative study that lifts the voices of Black and Latinx caregivers and students with regard to their perceptions of schools’ efforts to incorporate SEL into academics, what non-academic factors are important, and what the school’s role should be in supporting students of color in SEL.

Authors

• Nancy Duchesneau, The Education Trust

• R. Davis Dixon, Hampton University

• Ashley R. Griffin, Bowie State University