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
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Develop a Shared Vision for Schoolwide SEL This tool provides a model for structuring a conversation about developing a shared vision for SEL or integrating SEL into your school’s existing shared vision. |
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Private: Continuous Improvement Connection: Community Partnerships This tool provides an example of how out-of-school-time activities could be better coordinated with SEL strategies. |
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Selecting an Evidence-Based Program This tool offers guiding questions and a rating table template to determine whether an evidence-based program answers the needs of your students, families, teachers, school, and district. |
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Indicators of Schoolwide SEL: Strengths and Needs Reflection This tool offers space for reflection on the 10 indicators of schoolwide SEL. It can be a helpful step in establishing common ground among stakeholders about where the school should focus learning and implementation efforts for SEL. |
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This powerpoint presentation provides a library of slides with research on social and emotional learning. Your school can use these slides to help introduce the importance of SEL to staff, community partners, families, potential funders, and other stakeholders. In the notes section, you’ll see talking points to help you plan a presentation. |
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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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This tool (OST version) helps you identify potential SEL team members. You needn’t identify individuals for each role categories as long as the team represents the entire school community. |
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Private: Continuous Improvement Connection: Community Partnerships (OST) This tool (OST version) provides an example of how out-of-school-time activities could be better coordinated with SEL strategies. |
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Steps for Developing a Shared Vision for SEL (OST) This tool (OST version) provides a model for structuring a conversation about developing a shared vision for SEL or integrating SEL into your school community's existing shared vision. |
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This is a blank template you can use to estimate costs for SEL implementation in your school. |