Summary
How can state and district policymakers, educators (classroom and CTE teachers), and the business community better align the social and emotional competencies students are learning in school with the skills today’s employers seek in the workplace? This report takes the necessary first step by defining those overlapping skills, as summarized in this table:
The U.S. labor market requires employees to have social and emotional skills more than any other recent trend, yet there is no clear alignment between the social and emotional skills developed in K-12 and workforce skills.
