Social Emotional Learning

The “Ground Zero” piece brings together the work of three CSOs working across the country. It discusses why inclusion, of various aspects of learning and of children with disabilities, is such an important issue to address.

Library experiences with children have repeatedly demonstrated that children are capable of high emotional literacy when presented with texts that trust the mind of the child as well as honor the complexity of lived realities. These emotional competencies are strengthened through sustained engagement with stories in a shared space. This article explores children’s affective responses to literature in the context of library work.

In this piece, you find insights and learnings from discussions that took place in various thematic groups (such as those on ‘Artful Thinking’ and ‘Literacy Learning in a Multilingual’).