Dawn R. Mitchell White is affiliated with the University of South Florida as a doctoral student in Music Education. Many children with autism struggle to find the words to express how they feel. But ...

Joan Gillman is a creative educator and talented musician who has built a career at the intersection of education and the arts. She began teaching with a desire to shape young minds–not just ...

Elementary school teachers have noticed that their students don’t have the coping strategies to self-regulate—or manage their emotions and behaviors—that previous generations had. More than 8 in 10 ...

Andrea Burns uses social-emotional learning books in her classroom. A Kansas teacher is raising awareness about a teaching method that she says is helping students tap into their mental health and ...

Kids are often told to be strong and hold their emotions. When they are told to do so, they do not stop feeling emotions but stop showing emotions. It is crucial to teach kids to identify emotions, ...

A teacher says that social and emotional learning “transformed our classroom into one full of joy, laughter, empowerment and grit.” Credit: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

Most people have little trouble identifying the basic emotional character of music that they hear. We can easily distinguish music that sounds happy and cheerful from music that sounds sad or brooding ...