School 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
Build foundational support by establishing an SEL team, fostering SEL awareness, and developing a shared vision.
Just as it’s important to model SEL for students in the classroom, it’s also important for adults to consistently model social-emotional competencies with each other.
Social and emotional learning is essential to every child’s education.
FAQs on Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
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Create a stable budget for SEL resources, professional learning, and staffing to support the sustainability of SEL efforts.
Expand adult learning through structures such as professional learning communities and mentoring opportunities.
Connect and Collaborate With Students
Professional learning communities provide an important opportunity to integrate SEL into existing practices, work collaboratively on the goals of schoolwide SEL, and cultivate their own social and emotional competencies.
Connect and Collaborate With Families
Mentoring programs can help teachers improve their professional relationships while enhancing their SEL and instructional practice.
Foster supportive classroom environments that engage in explicit SEL and integrate SEL throughout instruction.
Explicit SEL instruction refers to consistent opportunities for students to cultivate, practice, and reflect on social and emotional competencies in ways that are developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive.