90 percent of success in life comes
from Emotional Intelligence.

When schools teach kids Emotional Intelligence skills, their chances for success and happiness in school, careers and relationships soar.

What's Emotional intelligence (EQ)? It's the know-how to manage your feelings, behaviors, relationships and your life in brilliant and healthy ways.

When taught in pre-K to 12 schools, it transforms the pain aspects of young lives, delivering skills that provenly lead to school and life achievement.

Schools mostly call this training Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). It's the most exciting education upgrade of our time. Want to fast-track a better world? Align yourself and family with its remarkable positive effects.

7 reasons these skills are what children - and many adults - most need. They...

1. Manage their emotional upsets, thoughts, and behaviors and feel confident in themselves
2. Create healthy relationships. Collaborate and resolve conflicts
3. Solve problems and make constructive decisions that often result in their becoming community and workplace leaders
4. Set goals and persist through setbacks
5. Empathize with others from diverse backgrounds without racial, ethnic, gender or class prejudice
6. Achieve academically and pursue lifelong learning and creative endeavors
7. Avoid violent acts, self-harming and addictive behaviors

before and after EQ vividly displayed.

Love these kids? There are easy ways you can help create more like them. Note: the super common response of adults is “I wish I’d learned that when I was in school.” Learn now.

how to advance this gorgeous learning for all kids.

for parents.

Help your kids succeed in every aspect of life by making sure SEL is taught by their schools – in-person or online – and ideally practiced at home as you learn.

for businesses.

With nearly 90% of high performance deriving from EQ, not IQ,* promoting SEL for pre-K-12 schools (as you did for STEM) will deliver even more upside.

*Harvard Business Review

for goodness sake.

EQ and SEL have the potential to transform society by fostering mutually supportive relationships, more loving mindsets, and healthier daily habits.

parent alert: every kid's core curriculum should start with their core.

Although far more important than math, science and history, Social-Emotional Learning is only taught comprehensively in an estimated 10-15% of U.S. schools. SEL creates:

Dramatic improvements in grades and in student emotional states.
Equally notable declines in bullying, racism, substance abuse, discipline incidents, digital addiction and suicides.

During this time of severe child and parent duress, children even more need SEL’s ability to transform mindsets and behaviors for the better so they can be their best selves. This game-changer movement of thousands of educators deserves your support.

Check out video and text evidence if needed or simply follow our guidance on how to make EQ happen in your schools, family, workplace and community. It’s a great adventure.

developing EQ is even more vital to heal pandemic after-effects. we can help.

Covid-19 (and associated restrictions) have dramatically down-graded the mental health of many kids and their parents. There aren’t enough mental health counselors to meet the need. So it’s even more urgent that Social-Emotional Learning be taught and practiced at school and at home.

50%

of children were stressed out by the pandemic and may experience long-term mental and physical health issues. SEL in schools will make a big difference. See news reports below. Also see The neuroscience of EQ

Classroom Evidence| 3:35

Examples of Social-Emotional Learning and character development.
More video evidence for SEL. Also see Full class trainings.

A Business Leader on need for Social-Emotional Learning | 6:20

Ronnie Selinger, CEO, Nordis Technologies, talks about the business and organizational need for and gain from SEL-trained graduates. Read more.

Boys & Girls Clubs| 3:04s

Hear about kids experiencing Emotional Intelligence skills at Boys & Girls Clubs – and parent appreciation for this.
More resources for parents.

you can pretty easily help get EQ skills to kids.

An estimated 90% of you parents and even more of the public don’t know this learning even exists, thus aren’t calling for it from your schools and legislatures despite SEL’s exceptional 35-year evidence-based history. See five lifelong benefits. So parent and public awareness is crucial.

Parents can call your schools and legislators and ask for it. Anyone can inform parents you know and share elements of this website on social media. Employers can play a major role by informing parenting staff. Major companies can popularize SEL with your marketing as you did for STEM learning (science, technology, engineering and math) and reap the benefits of public appreciation and better workforces.

Here’s our full guide to how anyone can help:

our goal: equip our kids for a brighter human future.

As a non-profit project of the Earthways Foundation, we are dedicated to educating and activating parents, businesses and the country to support EQ and SEL in order to make the lives of our kids really work, enabling them to go on to make the world work better for everyone. We tirelessly advocate to get SEL into 100% of preschools through high schools by 2030, and for families we curate the best, mostly free at-home learning resources from respected providers. We are not providers ourselves. Ally with us! See opportunities below.

in the media.

prominent voices.

"I have learned in my schools that social-emotional learning is what really matters."
Oprah Winfrey

"Social-Emotional Learning has the skills that we find make people successful over the long haul."
George Luca

"The programs nurture a child's social and emotional health and their academic skills."
Laura Bush

"It it important to pay attention to emotional intelligence...We want to explode that conversation to all over the world."
Lady Gaga

"Congratulations on the Campaign. I stand ready to support your work. You are engaged in a truly important endeavor and can touch many lives.”
Henry Cisneros

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90 percent of success in life comes
from Emotional Intelligence.

7 reasons these skills are what children - and many adults - most need. They...