By Bill Spinks wspinks@waxahachietx.com With a large number of students still learning at home and not being physically connected to their peers and teachers, the Midlothian Independent School District is working to ensure the social and emotional well-being of its students in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, every teacher in grades K-12 received training on social and emotional learning and trauma-informed care, in an effort to be proactive. Becky Wiginton, MISD's director of college/career readiness and guidance, said social and emotional learning, or SEL, is a foundation of skills that students will be taking into the workforce...
