SEL Learning & Instruction

Center on PBIS | Resource: Supporting and Responding to Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs: Evidence-Based Practices for Educators

August 5, 2024

The Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) provides technical assistance to schools and educational agencies to implement, sustain, and scale PBIS frameworks. A range of free resources, including assessments, guides, tools, and showcases model demonstrations of tiered PBIS implementation. Additionally, the Center hosts annual forums and promotes real-world examples to create affirming, culturally supportive learning environments, ultimately enhancing social, emotional, academic, and behavioral outcomes for students.

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CASEL Program Guide

August 5, 2024

The CASEL Program Guide is designed to help educators and school administrators select an evidence-based SEL program that best meets the needs of their community.Use this guide to determine your SEL team and goals, connect your needs to CASEL metrics, and identify and compare SEL programs.

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ACT Now SEL Guidebook

August 5, 2024

Guide to help providers learn more about Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and to assist in the planning and implementation of SEL in afterschool. In this guide, you will find resources and information to assist with learning about SEL, planning for implementation, selecting SEL curriculum and activities, training staff in SEL, assessing your program’s implementation of SEL, and assessing youth SEL outcomes.

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A Response to Construtive Criticism about Social and Emotional Learning

August 5, 2024

As the use of SEL in schools scales up, these authors discuss the importance of working to promote a clear, consistent, and balanced understanding of what SEL does — and doesn’t — mean to implement effective SEL approaches in our schools.

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A Glimpse of an Effective Schoolwide Implementation

August 5, 2024

A social worker at the Bethlehem Central School District in Delmar NY shares a video of 2nd graders at Eagle Elementary discussing The Zones of Regulation and how it’s helped them by incorporating mindfulness and breaks.

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Why We Need an Anti-Racist Approach to Social and Emotional Learning

August 5, 2024

Anti-racist approach to SEL takes a view that recognizes and values the diverse social and emotional skills students bring with them to the classroom. It also relates students’ individual social and emotional struggles to their lived experience with racial injustice and social inequity.

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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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Universal Behavior Screeners

August 5, 2024

A compilation of various screener tools used to assess behavior, social, and/or academic risk.

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Trauma Aware Teaching

August 5, 2024

A checklist has been prepared for higher educators as a tool to reflect on their teaching and courses, regardless of modality. The six principles of trauma-informed care developed by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) are a foundational concept in the trauma field. In this checklist, they are adapted to the field of education to assist teachers in creating more trauma-aware classrooms.

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SEL Survey User Guide

August 5, 2024

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING ASSESSMENT: Measure, understand, and develop students’ life skills. Increase student achievement and well-being with research-backed social-emotional learning survey, reporting dashboards, and student support planning tools.

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