Wayfinder Blog

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

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

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...

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...

Mastering Conflict Resolution: A Valuable Tool for Tackling School Bullying

Bullying is an issue that often looms large in our schools, impacting students' lives and well-being. With rates of reported occurrences on the rise,...

A Bully-Free Future: How Schools Can Curb Rising Rates of Bullying

Bullying remains a pervasive issue in today's educational landscape. 1 in 5 students aged 12-18 report being bullied during their school years, and...

Core Skill Deep Dive: Self-Awareness

Growing self-awareness throughout childhood and adolescence is a key piece of development that helps young people identify their needs and values and...

4 Types of Activities that Help Build Belonging in the Classroom

Over the past few years, we’ve seen rising rates of adolescent anxiety and depression, increased feelings of disconnection and disengagement, and...