Social & EMotional LEarning STRATEGIES
Playlists > Social & Emotional Learning Strategies
These short courses, tools and resources make up key components of a school that has a healthy culture and climate, which supports students’ academic and emotional well-being. Learn about creating safety, promoting emotion regulation, and reasons for providing calm spaces for students.
This brief course explores how a calm classroom starts with defining your expectations, routines, and schedules, creating a predictable space where everyone knows what to do and what’s coming next. But even with strong, fundamental practices in place. there are times when some students need a space to help regulate their emotions and calm their senses.
- 30 mins
This course provides simple strategies can increase students’ sense of safety and belonging. It’s important to recognize what makes a safe place. Remember, sometimes a student’s safe place isn’t a place, and it’s a person. Even as adults, we need to feel safe to speak up, thrive in relationships, and do our best work. Physiological Safety, physical safety and emotional safety importance of creating a sense of belonging and how to make connections to students’ cultures and classroom content.
- 30 mins
- Building Relationships & Connectedness (course)
- 30 mins
Research shows that students who feel safe and supported by adults at school are better able to learn. Safety, stability, and nurturing are three critical qualities of relationships that make a difference for children as they grow and develop, and certainly for those children and youth who have experienced trauma. Figuring out ways to implement strategies or strengthen existing ones around relationship-building is critical.
- Emotion Regulation (course)
- 30 mins
This course provides a quick overview and strategy ideas on building healthy strategies for emotion regulation and sensory regulation in the classroom, school community, as well as out-of-school programs. Includes strategies around creating a safe environment, feelings Identification, mood monitoring tool, sensory regulation, and practicing positive self-talk.
- Adult Social & Emotional Learning: It's Not Just for Kids! (course)
- 60 mins
This course provides an overview of the importance of adult social and emotional learning to student success and well-being in school and life. In this course, you will learn to:
define adult social and emotional learning (SEL)
describe why adult SEL is critical to educators’ practice
explain the importance of developing adult SEL through an equity lens
apply five specific strategies to enhance your SEL competency.
- Collaborative for Academic, Social & Emotional Learning - CASEL (website and framework)
CASEL’s Guide to Schoolwide SEL and District Resource Center offer free guidance, tools, and examples for schools and districts pursuing a systemic approach to social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation.
- extended learning
