If there’s a feeling that we’re “placing more into teachers’ laps” in K-12 by asking them to incorporate SEL, it’s because we’re getting it wrong from the start by not training early childhood educators to build children’s emotional competence and self-regulation at the most critical, developmental time...K-12 teachers are being asked to address the full depth and breadth of social-emotional learning because early childhood educators are not supported to do so. We must educate and train educators at all levels to effectively recognize and build their own emotional competencies and those in their young learners if we hope for SEL to deliver on its full potential for students and educators."
