Social Skills OR Social and Emotional Learning OR Dispositions OR Mindfulness

Whether we call them Work Habits, as they were referred to back in the '50s and '60s OR Attitudes to Learning as the were then called in the '70s or '80s OR Social Skills or Dispositions as they became in the '90s OR Social and Emotional Learning and Mindfulness as we think of them today, everything points to the covert curriculum in any home or classroom which needs to be addressed just as much as the knowledge and skills everyone needs to get ahead in the world and in society so that we ALL succeed. But how do we cultivate them in our students and how do we know when what we are trying to do is working?