Wayfinder Blog

What Research Says About Wayfinder’s 6 Core Skills and Employability

Aligned with the five CASEL competencies and Common Core State Standards, all Wayfinder social emotional learning curriculum is structured around our...

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 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,...