The Florida Department of Education recently announced that it rejected 42 math textbooks from its adoption list for incorporating “prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT” (critical race theory). But a further examination indicates that it in most cases, it was references to social emotional learning, not race, that led to the rejections. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses social emotional learning and asset-based pedagogies such as culturally responsive teaching and explains why how we learn is as important as what we learn.