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Announcing Keynote Speaker Damithia Nieves for Heart Day
[caption id="attachment_3671" align="aligncenter" width="546"] “When we love, we can hear our hearts speak.” -bell hooks[/caption] We are thrilled to announce Damithia Nieves as our Keynote Speaker for Heart Day at Whole Child, Whole Day: Heart, Mind, & Body! YDEKC’s Social & [...]
July 24, July 31, & August 8, 2020: Whole Child, Whole Day: Heart, Mind & Body – A Social & Emotional Learning Symposium
[caption id="attachment_3609" align="aligncenter" width="738"] Join us July 24, July 31, and August 7 for our 2020 WCWD SEL Symposium![/caption] Whole Child, Whole Day: Heart, Mind & Body A Social & Emotional Learning Symposium Update 7/18/20: For a look at the workshop [...]
SEL’s Full Potential — A Lever for Educational Equity
by Mona Grife Almost every youth-serving organization and school district is aiming to increase their social and emotional supports for young people. This is in response to the mounting mental stress on students, teachers, and youth-serving professionals, which has come during this [...]