Emotions affect everything from how well we pay attention to our mental and physical health. And yet many of us never learn to talk about them with specificity. Marc Brackett's work at the Yale Center For Emotional Intelligence is to help people learn to recognize and thus manage their emotions for better life success.

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Educators want assessment practices that promote deep learning and mastery, not superficial "teaching to the test" practices and student burnout. Denise Pope, a professor at Stanford University, shares her strategies for infusing assessments with student voice, choice, revision, and redemption.

Most of the important things we learn in life can't be measured on a standardized test, says EL Education's Anne Vilen. When students own the diagnostic tools of assessment, they are able to name and claim their learning goals in personalized ways.

No one person can guide school-improvement efforts, long-time educator Jim Dillon writes.

Teachers report that many students, despite being "digital natives," need guidance on how to use social media beyond entertainment purposes. In this Education Update article, three educators share their tactics for incorporating social media to expand students' sense of what learning can be.

Children are born ready to learn; it’s on us to give them the right opportunities.

Students whose grades are below average could boost their results if they devoted less time to Facebook and other social networking sites, new research suggests.

A new Educational Testing Service report recommends ways assessments can better diagnose gaps in knowledge and improve learning.

Scores for Latino students more than doubled at Robbins Elementary since 2014-15.

Teachers can take a step back, talk less and serve as facilitators to help students take more control of their own learning, according to Shannon McGrath, a K-8 instructional coach. In this blog post, McGrath shares strategies, including asking a student to time mini-lessons that are eight- to 10-minutes and using video in instruction.

To get young kids to thrive in school, we need to do more than teach them how to read and write - we need to teach them how to manage their emotions, says educator Olympia Della Flora. (webb-tv)