Wayfinder Blog

Wayfinder Supports Student Mental Health + Social Emotional Learning

Since its founding at the Stanford d.school, Wayfinder has been committed to helping schools become sites of meaningful learning and development. We...

State Standards Add SEL to Boost Student Engagement + Motivation

Although SEL is sometimes met with skepticism or wariness by parents and guardians, it’s clear that the skills it teaches students are valued by...

Wayfinder's SEL + 21st Century Skills Curriculum Boosts Student Purpose Nearly 75%

In spring of 2022, leading educational researcher and author of Teaching for Purpose, Dr. Heather Malin, published a program evaluation of...

Why Mental Health Management Is an Essential Employability Skill

Try as we may, we cannot ensure that students will leave school with every one of the latest hard skills prevalent in today’s workforce. Given the...

Social-Emotional Skills Are the Most Desirable + Employable Skills

With the future of work more uncertain than ever, researchers have been working to identify skills that will remain in demand across professional...

Moving Through COVID-19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

For the first time since World War II, a powerful force impacted the entire world simultaneously. No one was untouched by COVID-19, and we witnessed...

How Aurora Science + Tech Nurtures Future Leaders with Wayfinder

Education has shifted. Worldwide, schools are looking beyond rote memorization and standardized testing to hone in on what they can do to truly set...

Wayfinder Impact at Neighborhood House Charter School

At Neighborhood House Charter School (NHCS), community comes first. This guiding principle permeates every aspect of their approach to education,...

5 Takeaways From the Wayfinder Program Profile by Harvard’s EASEL Lab

In 2023, researchers of the EASEL Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education completed a Wayfinder program profile by analyzing Wayfinder’s...