Leadership magazine May/June 2017 V46 No. 5 | Page 27

Is it really our job as educators to teach SEL? Several parents of children lost to the tragedies of Columbine and Sandy Hook have expressed their support for teaching so- cial and emotional learning skills in school, indicating their belief that implementing SEL would have a positive impact on creat- ing a safe and healthy school environment. We would be hard-pressed