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"ecucating hearts and minds"
In other words, SEL puts into the classroom a live situation kids can extract these lessons from.
Well, also, one of the problems of the modern age is the remoteness from which people deal with other people. And it's true on the Internet and on computers, but it's also true on talk shows and on radio where bad manners aren't called out. We don't say, "Hey, you can't say that; that's hurting someone's feelings." Some of these talk show hosts believe that if they're talking to thousands of people, millions of people, and they're hurting a few people's feelings, so what?
You can have that rationale, but when you get down to five people and you're modeling that behavior from these other situations, someone has to say, "Hey, wait a minute. If someone said that to you, how would you feel?"
And that's a lesson in empathy. A very valuable one.
These people, on some talk shows, trash people for fun; but in the end, when you're the one being trashed, it isn't much fun. You can make the decision to trash someone, but no one is going to want to work with you, nobody's going to respect you, nobody's going to pay attention to you. If you are working on a team, what does it do to your team? This is something you can learn in physical education; sports teams are all about this sort of thing. But it's time to bring it out of the gym and put it into the classroom.

This kind of teaching goes beyond our standard model. It goes into caring about kids in a deep way.
I am completely convinced that most teachers really want to make a difference. The way the system is set up now, however, teachers feel like parents of a teenager: You talk, but you don't know if they are listening. This is not very gratifying.
If teachers can become more involved with the everyday lives of the students and their learning process, the teacher gets to experience the tiny, tiny victories. And those are the victories that represent the reason they got into teaching in the first place. They get to experience the joy of that student overcoming a problem and being proud of it. That student then gets to show it off to somebody personally, not grandstanding in front of the classroom, but in the moment of discovery, being able to say, "Look, I figured this out." For everybody involved, it is a much more rewarding and joyful experience.