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Social Emotional Skills are Key to Academic Success

This is an interesting article and it really resonated with me.  I think teaching social emotional skills is something we aren't trained as teachers to do but that is critical to do.  
"Then researchers followed up with the kids once they became young adults to see what happened to them. They discovered that the kids with the highest social and emotional competency scores in kindergarten fared better overall.
For every one-point increase in children's social competency scores in kindergarten, they were twice as likely to obtain college degrees. They were also more likely to have full-time jobs by age 25.
But the kids who had trouble cooperating, listening, and resolving conflict were less likely to finish high school--let alone college. They were more likely to have legal problems and substance abuse issues."

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