Social and emotional learning (SEL) has been lauded as important for student success. However, little guidance is available for how educators, scholars, and policymakers can work together to improve SEL implementation in public schools across a state. Here, we describe CalHOPE Student Support – an effort to “sow the seeds” of SEL across California. Invoking the metaphor of a garden, we first discuss the...
SHIFT is a cross-disciplinary research hub addressing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and School-Based Mental Health. Our researchers collaborate with young people and educators to co-produce scholarship that advances knowledge about the infrastructure needed for effective SEL implementation in schools. The delivery of high-quality SEL has been connected to improved academic success and well-being of young people. Recent scholarship has expanded this concept to infuse the explicit, additional goal of interrupting the (re)production of inequity in school...
Professor Adrian Aguilera’s research leverages digital & mobile technologies along with innovative methods such as machine learning to improve health & mental healthcare of low-income & ethnic minority populations, with a focus on Latinx & Spanish-speaking populations.
Without proper guardrails, artificial intelligence runs the risk of replicating human bias and limiting broad benefits. As the healthcare industry increasingly integrates AI, researchers have the opportunity to curb bias by ensuring their studies include often-overlooked communities and benefit those in need.
But when researchers attempt to diversify their study participants, they can encounter assumptions about which communities are “ready” for innovative health interventions.
