Communities for Just Schools Fund

Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools Report

August 5, 2024

In 2020 Communities for Just Schools Fund worked with national network of partners (youth, parent, and teacher-led organizing groups) to press back on harmful narratives about safety — and to instead place conversations about safety into the more holistic, appropriate container of culturally-affirming social-emotional learning (SEL). Through the year-long Community of Practice, they collected survey data from partners about their work related to safety and SEL. The findings from this year-long exploration of culturally-affirming SEL are detailed in this report.

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Communities for Just Schools Fund

August 5, 2024

Communities for Just Schools Fund is a national collaborative that links philanthropy with the power of grassroots organizing to transform schools. Program areas include grantmaking, technical assistance & capacity-building, Community of Practice, federal strategies, narrative power-building, and member programming.

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When SEL is Used as Another Form of Policing

August 5, 2024

Article about how the current narrative around SEL is that students must manage and regulate themselves and their emotions, conform and constrict their identities, and not express their fullest, most authentic selves, and urges school districts re-examine how we talk about and teach SEL.

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Culturally Affirming SEL

August 5, 2024

Culturally-affirming SEL asks critical questions of all of us: How do people relate to themselves? How do people relate to land? How do people relate to the community? Culturally-affirming SEL is about reclaiming — reclaiming our relationships with ourselves and our emotions, our ancestors, our spirituality, our creativity, our land, and our relationships with others.

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