CASEL Newsletter: Focus on Adolescents

For any and all folks in the YouthLearn community who work with teens, this is an information-rich publication:
CASEL Connections: SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) Research and Practice Updates from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago

"In This Issue: Focus on Adolescents

In this issue we turn our attention to the issue of the educational, social, and emotional needs of high school students and the challenges facing educators in helping students to succeed in high school and beyond.

Spotlight on Research: SEL and High School Achievement: Self-discipline counts more than IQ; Which SEL factors matter most? Social and behavioral characteristics predict academic success; Policies and intervention address problem of bullying; Teacher connectedness and risky behavior; Service-learning and community connections
Spotlight on Practice: Keeping kids in school; SEL at the heart of school reform; Turning the tables: teachers as students ~ and students teach about teaching; A whole school turns out to build relationships ~ and student success
Spotlight on Policy: New York State mental health/SEL policy 2006; Proposed federal education budget for 2007; Anti-bullying Act of 2005; Policy analysis for mental health in schools
Resources: Helpful websites about school reform; Revised educational policies, state-by-state; Data/trends; What Works Clearinghouse new help desk; LSS Partnership Series on Adolescents; Multimedia resource on High Schools that Work; The adolescent brain
New Books
Grants
Conferences"