Social and Emotional Learning are all based on meta-cognition. Here is an excellent article on the importance of teaching students in school. Courtesy of ASCD Smart Brief

Study: Social, emotional lessons pay off later in life
Lessons teaching social and emotional skills to young children may help boost school performance and reduce rates of mental health and substance abuse issues and arrests later in life, according to a study recently published in The American Journal of Psychiatry. This article highlights several social-emotional programs. National Public Radio/nprEd blog (12/31)