Social emotional learning

Celebrate International SEL Day 2025 with resources designed to foster inclusive learning environments and enhance student success.

For World Mental Health Day and beyond, we’re committed to helping you continue to build supportive learning environments.

As educators, we recognize that you stay on the lookout for new ways to motivate your students, improve your teaching practices, and streamline your work processes.

Learn how you can teach your students about mental health this Mental Health Awareness Month. Explore free tools from Microsoft to teach mental health in schools.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom helps students boost academic achievement and develop critical life skills. It’s how students develop healthy self-identities, constructively manage their emotions, and develop positive relationships.

At the start of 2024, Microsoft invites you and your students to reflect, express gratitude, and set goals. Use Microsoft Reflect, a Learning Accelerator that helps young people develop social and emotional learning (SEL) skills, to kick off the new year successfully.

October 10th is World Mental Health Day: a day to raise awareness and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The day provides an excellent opportunity to discuss and normalize mental health issues so that we can make mental health a universal human right.

Microsoft Reflect is a Learning Accelerator that helps students build important social, emotional, and academic skills. It offers quick check-ins in the Reflect web app, or within your favorite Microsoft 365 Education learning apps including Microsoft Teams for Education and OneNote.

Summer is finally here and that means it’s time for educators everywhere to pause, take a much-deserved break, and relax!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to bring attention to the importance of mental health and the resources available to support it. It is important to recognize the impact of good mental health on overall well-being, academic success, and economic outcomes.

On March 10, 2023, classrooms around the world will come together to celebrate International SEL Day. This year’s theme is “Uplifting Hearts, Connecting Minds.

Is there something that you are anxious about? Perhaps just saying “I am scared of _____” could help. Researchers at UCLA found that when afraid, people showed fewer signs of reactivity after verbalizing their emotions.