<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/graduate-sel-program-highlighted-in-national-report.html" dsn="news"><title>National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Recognizes William James College Social Emotional Learning Program</title><item_date>01/16/2019 12:00:00 PM</item_date><author>Staff Report</author><image><img src="/news/images/sel-program-in-national-report.png" alt="National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Recognizes William James College Social Emotional Learning Program"/></image><image_caption>A graduate certificate program which brings together school teams to work toward ways to embed SEL into their home districts has been highlighted in a new report by the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development.</image_caption><thumbnail><img src="/news/images/sel-program-in-national-report.png" alt="National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Recognizes William James College Social Emotional Learning Program"/></thumbnail><summary>In more and more classrooms across the country, alongside reading, writing, and arithmetic, children are being taught tolerance, compassion and understanding. </summary><category>Research &amp; Advocacy</category><featured/><tags><tag>Research &amp; Advocacy</tag></tags></item>