15 Subcortical Emotional Literacy Skills Missing from Modern SEL (And Why Academic Success Depends o
Can you understand a complex novel when you know only five letters of the alphabet? You would struggle to grasp the plot, let alone the nuance. This is exactly how most students experience their inner world today. While standard Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) teaches kids to say they feel "sad" or "mad," recent research from the National Foundation for Educational Research shows these methods may be falling short, as young people in England now rank lower in socio-emotional skills than peers in most other developed countries. To utterly understand the emotional literacy definition, you must look deeper than a vocabulary list of adjectives.