Six Ways to Sustain Social-Emotional Learning in Schools
This brief article explores ways to support sustaining SEL PreK–12 efforts like relationship building districtwide.
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SEL Learning & Instruction
Six Ways to Foster an Inclusive and Autism-Affirming Approach to SEL
Inclusive and autism-affirming SEL can reduce bullying and the need for masking by fostering understanding and acceptance of autistic students’ social and emotional differences. Inclusive and autism-affirming SEL can also support autistic students’ social and emotional needs by providing accommodations and aiding in the development and maintenance of skills that work with, rather than against, their brains. This article explores ways to make SEL inclusive for students with autism.
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Signature SEL Practices Playbook
This guidebook from CASEL is a tool that supports systemic social and emotional learning in schools. The SEL 3 Signature Practices are one tool for fostering a supportive environment and promote SEL. They intentionally and explicitly help build a habit of practices through which students and adults enhance their SEL skills. While not an SEL curriculum, these practices are one concrete example of a way to help people understand and practice the goals of an overall systemic SEL implementation plan.
RULER – Mood Meter for Preschool
Preschool RULER was developed as a way to teach emotional intelligence to our youngest learners.
Restorative Practices Guide and Toolkit
This Restorative Practices Guide and Toolkit was created by the Chicago Public Schools Office of SEL, in collaboration with the Embrace Restorative Justice in Schools Collaborative. The guidance and resources provided are intended to support staff, administrators, and community partners in developing restorative school communities. The implementation tools included should be used by trained school staff and administrators, parents, RP Coaches, and community members. The tools are not to be used in place of training and is not a platform to begin practicing formal Restorative Practices in schools without other supports, such as professional development and coaching.
Restorative Justice in Oakland Schools
This video offers an inside look at the use of restorative circles in a high school.
Responsive Classoom
Responsive Classroom is a student-centered, social and emotional learning approach to teaching and discipline. It is comprised of a set of research, and evidence-based practices designed to create safe, joyful, and engaging classrooms and school communities for both students and teachers.
Relationship Mapping strategy
Using this strategy, school staff identify youth who do not currently have positive connections with school adults during a private meeting. Those students are then paired with a supportive adult mentor within the school. Throughout the year, mentors support each other through the successes and challenges of building relationships with students, and school administrators routinely communicate with staff to determine how well the process is going. At the end of the year, the staff convenes to talk about how their efforts may have positively affected students.
Peace Corner: Creating Safe Space for Reflection
Students practice self-regulation and manage their stress and frustration in a de-escalation space in each classroom.
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Panorama Teacher and Staff Survey
The Panorama Teacher and Staff Survey gives school and district leaders a tool to listen to and address educators’ professional, social, and emotional needs. The survey is designed to spark productive conversations between teachers and school leaders about well-being, professional learning, cultural competency, school leadership, school climate, and other key topics.