Learning Climate: The "quality and character of school life" based on how members of the school community experience school and the school's "norms, goals, values, interpersonal relationships, teaching, learning and leadership practices, and organizational structures" (Reference: National School Climate Council). National School Climate Council
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Planning for Professional Learning on Evidence-based Programs Use this tool to begin incorporating professional learning and other support activities into the existing schoolwide professional learning plan. |
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Restorative Justice: A Mindset (New Root Learning Institute) This professional learning resource from a collaborating organization in Chicago, the New Root Learning Institute, includes a reflection exercise to understand the difference between a punitive and a restorative mindset and an activity to re-frame punitive statements toward students with restorative language and mindsets. (Shared with permission, see newroot.org for more) |
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Learner Autobiography Lesson Plan This activity is an opportunity for students to explore their identity as learners and how past experiences have shaped their sense of themselves in the classroom. Reading these autobiographies will be an important learning experience for their teachers as well. |
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Create a Professional Learning Plan Use this tool to organize a customized professional learning plan for your school staff that is clearly tied to the schoolwide goals for SEL, can be assessed for effectiveness throughout the year, draws upon available resources, and includes intentional follow-up to ensure that new practices are sustained and supported over time. |
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Learning More About Your School’s Surrounding Community This tool provides suggestions for learning more about your school’s community and guiding questions for reflecting on the information you gather. |
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Learning More About Your Site’s Surrounding Community (OST) This tool (OST version) provides suggestions for learning more about your school’s community and guiding questions for reflecting on the information you gather. |
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Create a Professional Learning Plan (OST) Use this tool (OST version) to organize a customized professional learning plan for your staff that is clearly tied to SEL goals, can be assessed for effectiveness throughout the year, draws upon available resources, and includes intentional follow-up to ensure that new practices are sustained and supported over time. |
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The Learning Forward Journal: Collaboration Issue TOGETHER WE CAN DO MORE Collaboration and teams amplify learning. |
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Plan SEL Foundational Learning for the School Community This tool is designed to help SEL leaders prepare a broad plan and access resources to support foundational learning about SEL. It should be used in the early stages of schoolwide SEL implementation |
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Planning Foundational Learning for the School Community (OST) This tool (OST version) is designed to help OST leaders prepare a broad plan and access resources to support foundational learning about SEL. It should be used in the early stages of SEL implementation. |