A recent Harvard Business Review article examined an analysis of 1,000 occupations and hundreds of skills, capturing 70 million job transitions, and identified several core skills necessary for success across all domains. First and foremost were foundational skills, such as collaboration, mathematical thinking, and adaptability.
However, a subset of skills were also paramount to success – social skills. These social skills include: communication, empathy, conflict resolution, critical thinking, problem solving, and the ability to coordinate diverse expertise – the skills of emotional intelligence. These skills are foundational and necessary for success in an ever-increasing and changing technological world of AI.
At Housman Learning, we provide solutions in promoting the emotional well-being of adults and the mental health and academic achievement of children through fostering the skills of Emotional Intelligence starting from birth–durable and sustainable skills that can be taught.
Today, educators, parents, and even grandparents are faced with mounting stress and worry. These stressors include: mental health issues, behavioral and emotional dysregulation, social media, tech devices, bullying and learning loss, and also burnout and poor mental health among adults.
As “COVID Babies” are walking through the doors to kindergarten–many with poor social skills and dysregulated behavior–teachers are increasingly finding themselves at the end of their ropes, which negatively impacts classroom culture. And it’s not just the children who are struggling to regulate their emotions, so too are the educators and parents in their lives.
Teachers across the nation have complained that the programs in place to support them aren’t working. Parents are stressed out, hurting, and overwhelmed as to who to turn to for support. They need real solutions to help them with their stress.
That’s where Housman Learning comes in. We provide the begin to ECSEL Training & Mastery Program, our flagship program that is evidence-based and research-proven to work. We train educators and support parents in managing their own stress and intense emotions, as well as understanding those of others. These are the skills of Emotional Intelligence, which can provide the tools in how to develop and regain control of one’s emotions, thinking, and behavior–resulting in true behavioral change, agency, and self-control.
Emotional Intelligence is a key indicator for behavioral change, academic achievement and teacher satisfaction and retention. As underscored in the Harvard Business Review article, soft skills are necessary for success. This is what lies at the heart of begin to ECSEL – the skills of emotional intelligence that are foundational to success from cradles to classrooms to careers. No longer seen as a soft skill but rather as a sustainable, durable skill for lifelong success not only in learning but in life.
We aren’t born with these skills, but we are able to learn them. And children can learn them from the adults in their lives who have support in dealing with their own emotionality.
The research on begin to ECSEL is clear. Multiple peer-reviewed studies proved that children enrolled in the program outperformed children not enrolled in emotional competence, self-regulation, empathy, executive functioning, and learning.
Fostering building blocks of emotional intelligence in children and enhancing educators’ own emotionality unleashes one’s full potential to be our best selves – it’s education for character and moral development.
The feedback we’ve gotten from teachers and parents has been profound–not only has the program enriched their lives professionally, but they’ve also experienced better communication and satisfaction in their home lives, both with their children and their spouses as well.
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