Fiction and Social-Emotional Learning

Social-emotional learning—at least under that moniker—was not being discussed back when I first started publishing books. But novels have always served as a mechanism to help young readers step into another’s shoes, and that is certainly true of Shelter from the Wind, my first published book.

If you’d like to dig deeper into this concept, here’s an interesting article from Education Dive: “Fiction has significant role in social emotional learning.”