Why Teaching Children to Understand Their Emotions May Be the Most Important Lesson of All
Across the United States, a quiet but consequential shift is underway in how schools define their purpose. Increasingly, forward-thinking institutions are recognizing that academic instruction alone is insufficient preparation for the full complexity of human life — and that the emotional and social development of students is not a distraction from education, but its very foundation. This is the promise of social-emotional learning, and it is a promise that Santhom School takes seriously.