Communication: When schools send regular, coherent messages about SEL that are consistent in tone and content, while also ensuring they listen and respond to the inputs, ideas and needs of stakeholders (including staff, students, families, community partners, etc.). This is most likely to happen when schools take the time to learn more about the stakeholders they serve and use strategies to create personal connections.
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Rapid Learning Cycles for Continuous Improvement This tool helps SEL teams learn about the effectiveness of their SEL strategies and decide whether they should adjust implementation practices to move closer to their SEL goals. |
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Strategies for Gathering Student Feedback Students are the best source of information about what is working to help them learn and feel supported. Use this tool to develop a simple strategy to learn from students to continuously improve instruction to better meet their needs. |
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Systemic SEL Program and Initiative Inventory (OST version) This tool is designed to help the SEL team learn about past and present SEL-related work that has occurred. It includes an interview protocol and guidance for analyzing information from interviews or surveys to decide what SEL-related work should be built upon or reinstated. |
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District, school, and organizational leaders and those leading an SEL team can use these questions to spark reflection about leadership: how they apply social and emotional competencies and focal constructs that center equity and excellence in the way they learn, connect, collaborate, and model SEL as leaders. |
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Family/Caregiver Survey on Schoolwide SEL Implementation Includes sample letter and survey items to learn from families and caregivers about their perceptions and experiences of social and emotional learning at their child's school. Also available in Spanish. Suggested citation: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). (2021). Family/Caregiver Survey on Schoolwide SEL Implementation. https://schoolguide.casel.org/resource/family-caregiver-survey-on-schoolwide-sel-implementation/ |
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Community Partner Inventory on Schoolwide SEL Implementation Includes sample letter and 12 items to learn to what extent community partners are aware of and included in SEL implementation at the school. |
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This template includes a structure and sample questions for one-on-one chats to open dialogue with students and learn more about how they are experiencing school. |
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Schoolwide SEL Program and Initiative Inventory This tool is designed to help the SEL team learn about past and present SEL-related work that has occurred in the school. It includes an interview protocol and guidance for analyzing information from interviews or surveys to decide what SEL-related work should be built upon or reinstated. |
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School-based Staff Survey on Schoolwide SEL Implementation Includes sample letter and survey items to learn from school staff about their perceptions and experiences of social and emotional learning and implementation support so far. Suggested citation: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). (2021). School-based Staff Survey on Schoolwide SEL Implementation. https://schoolguide.casel.org/resource/tool-staff-family-and-community-partner-survey-on-sel-implementation/ |
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The purpose of this protocol is to learn from people who have relevant expertise - and who provide multiple perspectives - on the issue a team wants to improve. Ideally, the presenting team should leave with a deeper understanding of the factors contributing to the issue and clear next steps for moving the work forward. |