The Leading with SEL toolkits offer resources to integrate social and emotional learning (SEL) into educational settings, emphasizing equity and student well-being. They provide practical strategies, activities, and guidance for educators to foster supportive and inclusive learning environments.
The Integrated Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Fidelity Rubric (IMFR) is a tool created to assess an elementary school’s implementation of Integrated Multi-tiered Systems of Support (I-MTSS). I-MTSS is a model where academic and social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) supports are strategically combined to improve students’ academic (e.g., reading and/or math) and SEB outcomes.
This framework describes trauma and healing in these ways: trauma is the harmful interruption of safety, agency, dignity and/or belonging, which are fundamental needs of all human beings. Trauma is embodied in 5 levels: individual, collective, systemic, intergenerational and/or historical; trauma is experienced in the body-brain, overwhelming our ability to cope with and integrate thoughts, sensations, and emotions connected to an experience; and pathways to healing occur anytime we do anything that restores and/or promotes safety, agency, dignity and belonging and moves bodies towards integration and wholeness.
This podcast explores how everyone in a school community has a responsibility to help children feel safe.
How a School Lunch Lady Sparked Better Trauma Response for Schools Read More »
This website focuses on Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and provides resources, training, and consulting services to help schools create positive learning environments. The site offers tools for educators to implement evidence-based practices that support student behavior and academic success. The Circle Planning Guide is a free resource from a blog post on her site, “How to Plan Your Own Classroom Circle.”
Information on creating calm spaces in classrooms and schools.
This resource identifies five guiding principles and suggests actions schools and school districts can take to create inclusive, safe, supportive, and fair learning environments. The resource also lists federal resources to support these efforts.
Guiding Principles for Creating Safe, Inclusive, Supportive, and Fair School Climates Read More »
This website offers a collection of science-based practices related to SEL, character education, and mindfulness. Search their collection of free practices, such as creating a music playlist for your class cultivate emotional awareness and a sense of belonging and connection among students. There are lots of activities and resources to support adult and student well-being, as well as courses to learn how to put them into action.
Schoolwide SEL engages the entire school community in creating caring, motivating, and equitable learning environments that promote social, emotional, and academic growth. The CASEL Guide to Schoolwide SEL outlines an intentional and collaborative process for systemic SEL implementation.
Fly Five is a kindergarten to eighth grade social and emotional learning curriculum developed on the core belief that, in order for students to be academically, socially, and behaviorally successful in, out of, and beyond school, they need to learn a set of social and emotional competencies, namely cooperation, assertiveness, responsibility, empathy, and self-control (C.A.R.E.S.)
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