RESEARCH LIBRARY
The Papers behind Control the Moment
Peer-informed, source-anchored writing on why today's students need a different kind of social-emotional learning, and how Control the Moment is built to deliver it, ten minutes a day, K-12.
FLAGSHIP WHITE PAPER
Built for Children Who No Longer Exist
Introducing Post-2012 SEL, a category defined by the daily nervous-system conditions of children raised inside always-on digital environments, and the curriculum designed inside it.
Abstract
Something changed for kids around 2012. Teen depression went up year after year through that decade. By 2021, the CDC found that 42% of high school students felt sad or hopeless most days. These are the first students to grow up with a smartphone as a normal part of being a kid.
Every social-emotional learning program in schools today was written before that change. This paper calls what comes after it Post-2012 SEL.
Control the Moment is built for it. Ten minutes a day, every day, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Every lesson is scripted and taught by the classroom teacher. Every grade runs the same five steps: Regulate, Identify, Understand, Respond, Reflect. The idea behind it is simple. Staying calm under pressure is a skill, and skills need practice every day.