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Paying students isn’t sustainable, said Zaia Vera, the school district’s head of social-emotional learning.

Schools now provide increased social-emotional learning and mental health support.

She’d examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings.

Last year, more than half of TK classrooms said they use a literacy and social-emotional learning curriculum developed for preschoolers.

We hear stories of violence and tragedy, and they are often accompanied by a sweeping dose of skepticism of behavioral interventions and supports at school, like restorative justice, social-emotional learning — teaching kids to navigate school and life competently — and Multi-Tiered System of Supports, or data-driven assessments and interventions that help students, whether as a class as a whole or as individuals.