In Oakland, Calif., some teachers are working to deepen their knowledge on how to integrate social-emotional learning into their teaching of traditional subjects such as reading, writing, and math.

A learning/teaching approach used base-ten blocks to embody the English named-value system of number words and digit cards to embody the positional base-ten system of numeration.

Small-group problem solving was used as a primary instructional strategy for all aspects of second-grade mathematics, including computation, for the entire school year. This gave rise to learning ...