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Second‑grader who testified at statehouse urges schools to keep social‑emotional learning
Summary
At its March 3 meeting the Concord School District board heard Abbot Downing second‑grader Cordelia Dubois describe how social‑emotional learning (SEL) helped her and why she testified against proposed restrictions; the board and staff responded with questions and praise.
Cordelia Dubois, a second‑grader at Abbot Downing School, told the Concord School District School Board on March 3 that social‑emotional learning helped her at school and at home and that she had testified at the statehouse and at a national convening to oppose a proposed ban on SEL instruction.
Dubois said she received the CELI (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) Timothy P. Shriver Award for outstanding youth leadership after speaking in Chicago and at the state…
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