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Beginning in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education systems throughout the world, affecting practically 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 international locations. Closures of faculties and other learning areas have impacted 94 p.c of the world’s scholar population, up to 99 % in low and lower-middle earnings international locations. As of September 30, 2020 there were 27 nations that had localized college closures. In the United States, an estimated fifty five.1 million students have been compelled to cease in-person instruction as of April 10, 2020.

Amid the disruptions attributable to the pandemic, curiosity in SEL is surging among educators and oldsters. Casey Rimmer, director of innovation and education technology, Union County Public Schools, Monroe, N.C. Lateshia Woodley, assistant superintendent of pupil support, Kansas City, Mo.

In universities, departments of academic psychology are often housed within schools of education, presumably accounting for the lack of illustration of educational psychology …