I am a firm believer that it takes a "village" to support our children.  As an educator in special education, SEL implementer, and a mama to a preschooler . . . I love working with families to help promote confident kiddos.  I think at the core of promoting any SEL into schools helps our students to be self-aware, resilient, confident and compassionate earners.  A lot of research supports the idea that when our students have social-emotional competence that it leads to better academic achievement.   It make sense, right?  For example, when our students can communicate their frustration about math . . . our educators can help them by breaking concepts down or teaching it a different way .  However, if a student resorts to "giving up" or some alternate problem behavior, then educators cannot get to the root of the problem and are simply managing behaviors.  

Way to go Virginia for paving the way towards more confident and kind kiddos!