Hard SEL Questions Addressed

Edsby’s Dallas Kachan speaks about social and emotional learning (SEL) with Dr. Molly Lawlor, Director of Curriculum and Research at MindUP, and Dido Balla, Director of Educational Innovation & Partnerships at MindUP. MindUP is an evidence-based SEL program accredited by CASEL.

The group takes on tough questions, including educator concerns that SEL is yet another thing on the plate, the potential for misuse of emotion-related data, whether kids can be trusted to answer emotional questions, whether SEL is over-coddling children and whether SEL is a trojan horse planting progressive ideas like critical race theory (CRT.)

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Dallas Kachan

Dallas Kachan is VP of Marketing at Edsby. He has led, worked with or consulted to dozens of technology firms in Silicon Valley and Canada over thirty years. He was the original vice president of sales and marketing for SoftArc, developers of FirstClass, credited as one of the first internet-based LMSes. Dallas was managing director and head of global marketing for the Cleantech Group, the organization that founded the cleantech investment theme, and served on the board of the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business’ Cleantech Institute. He is the author of the travel and adventure novel, The Starship Diaries.