Pirzada, C. (2018, August 21). OPINION: The best time to teach students how to cope with trauma? When there isn’t any. Retrieved January 16, 2019

Schools should not wait until there is a crisis to teach students about social and emotional learning, but should integrate the practices in daily classroom lessons, asserts Christina Pirzada, program manager for SEL at Newsela. In this commentary, she shares three approaches a school could use to adopt an SEL mindset and build positive relationships with its students.