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Conclusion Our charge as educators is to meet our students’ learning needs. To this end, teachers around the world are embracing social-emotional learning. You may be feeling nervous about providing this instruction—social-emotional learning likely wasn’t a focus of your teacher preparation program. We encourage you to try a few of the instructional activities and reflect along the way. These activities were purposefully designed for the adolescent learner and have been found to be highly engaging. We commend your efforts to help your students improve their self-regulation with these evidence-based instructional activities. Through our work with thousands of middle and high school teachers, we have witnessed growth in the ability of students to self-regulate, resulting in increased learning, goal attainment, and prosocial behaviors. Self-regulation fuels adolescents to become socially and emotionally engaged, career-equipped, lifelong learners.
