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A New SEL Program Finds Its ‘Way’ to Schools, Survival and $1.5M in Seed Funding

Patrick Cook-Deegan once wanted to build a school, one focused on helping high school students find purpose through attending to their mental health and well-being. It would be based in Palo Alto, Calif., which was rattled by clusters of suicides among the city’s teenagers.

The school board turned down the idea. But Cook-Deegan found other ways to bring his vision to life. In 2015, he received a fellowship at Stanford University’s famed design school and spent the next two years working to build a social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum tailored for high school students. A year later, he and a team piloted the program to 2,500 students.

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