Healing Centered Framework
This article provides an overview of Dr. Shawn Ginwright’s Healing Centered framework that can be applied to schol environments.
Prioritizing SEL
Culturally Affirming SEL
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.
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
The CR-S framework helps educators create student-centered learning environments that: affirm racial, linguistic and cultural identities; prepare students for rigor and independent learning, develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; and empower students as agents of social change.
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Creating a Relationship Map
Use this Google doc to create a tool to start the Establishment, Maintaining, Restoring (EMR) Phase with students. EMR is a specific framework for understanding student-teacher relationships in which three dimensions of relationships are highlighted: establishing the relationship through positive interactions, maintaining the relationship with continued support and encouragement, and restoring the relationships as needed.
Creating Calm Corners
Calm down corners can be developed and promoted in a variety of ways and in both home and school out-of-school settings. This article provides information about creating calm corners in your spaces.
Brown vs. Board and the Doll Test
This article describes how the Doll Test, conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, communicated the influence of race, color and status on the self-esteem of children
Adult SEL Toolkit
Adult SEL Toolkit is aligned to CASEL’s Focus Area 2 for SEL implementation to help districts take a major step forward in supporting adult capacity for . Includes resources to support staff wellbeing, creating systems of support for educators, and build adult SEL capacity.
Amygdala Hijack
Ever been in a conversation where you left with your heart racing, neck red, and you are ready to fight (or flight?). You have your amygdala to thank for that. When your amygdala is hijacked, this is not the time for a confrontation. It’s nearly impossible to connect with others when this is happening. Use this video to help students and staff understand more about anxiety and brain science.
