Long before anyone called it social emotional learning, I was weaving these principles through my high school social studies classroom. I did it implicitly, without naming it. I built community, cultivated compassion, and promoted reflection because ...

When I was working on the K-12 SEL Learning Targets, I spent a lot of time thinking about where students were going. A learning target's whole premise is the destination... if you can see where growth is headed, you can design toward it.

A parallel ...