Teach Smarter Podcast · Guest
Christina Cipriano
Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center · Director of the Education Collaboratory at Yale
About Dr. Christina Cipriano
Dr. Christina Cipriano is an Associate Professor of Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center and Director of the Education Collaboratory at Yale University.
She has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and Education Week. Her book Be Unapologetically Impatient is available now.
About This Episode
What 424 Studies on SEL Actually Found | With Dr. Christina Cipriano
What does the research actually say about SEL, and why does so much of what gets sold to schools fall short of the evidence?
We sit down with Dr. Christina Cipriano, one of the leading researchers in social-emotional learning, to get into what the data shows and what leaders should do about it. Dr. Cipriano led the largest meta-analysis of SEL programs ever conducted: 424 studies, 53 countries, more than 575,000 students.
We talk about how to cut through the marketing, what to actually look for in an SEL program, and why so many schools are investing in the wrong things. We also discuss why calling people out creates opponents instead of partners, how small language shifts change the dynamic between educators and families, and why “that’s just the way we do things” may be the most costly phrase in education.