March 19, 2024

In this month’s blog, 2023-24 Michigan Teacher of the Year Candice Jackson talks about the three important ways students can pick up essential social-emotional learning skills: school, parents/caregivers and communities (at home or after school). Teachers can include SEL skills in their curriculum, but it takes more to make sure kids are on the path to success.
 

2023-24 Michigan Teacher of the Year Candice Jackson is a third-grade teacher and instructional coach at Mann Learning Community in Detroit Public Schools Community District. She's been in the Detroit district since 2002 and at Mann since 2017.