Notarfrancesco: TRAILS goes beyond SEL—it’s activism wrapped in therapy language
Should teachers in Colorado K-12 classrooms be performing daily assessments on the thoughts and feelings of your children?
At the beginning of the 2024-25 school year, Pueblo D70 School District controversially implemented a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum which Superintendent Ronda Rein described in an email from September 24, 2024 as a “daily assessment of thoughts and feelings.”
SEL is promoted to parents and school administrators as the panacea for kids’ mental health concerns, and SEL advocates believe the concepts benefit students by providing important emotional training which leads to academic success, healthy relationships, and proper civic engagement.
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