How can districts ensure students have enough social-emotional support?

COVID-19 dug “quite a hole” for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when it comes to addressing student behavioral and mental health challenges.

But schools’ efforts to address increased behavioral concerns since students returned to classrooms following prolonged building closures have been “encouraging,” said Kathleen Ethier, a social psychologist and director of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health.

“I see so much effort being placed in schools on addressing those impacts, and the learning impacts as well,” Ethier said. Read More