Elevate Student Voice

Students have a unique perspective on how high-level decisions impact the day-to-day life of the school, and their voices are critical to quality schoolwide SEL implementation. By listening to students, schools can make informed decisions about the changes that will best support all learners.

Indicators of Schoolwide SEL

Schoolwide SEL is evidenced by indicators in the classroom, school, family, and community.

Action Plan

Review your current level of implementation, identify needs and resources, set goals, and develop concrete action steps for SEL implementation.

Professional Learning About SEL

As staff use shared agreements to guide their interactions, it’s essential that they also reflect on their own social and emotional growth.

SEL Team

Establish a highly-functioning SEL team that’s representative of the school community and includes students, families, and community groups in decision-making processes.

Focus Area 2

Cultivate a community of adults who engage in their own social and emotional learning, collaborate on strategies for promoting SEL, and model SEL throughout the school.

Learn

Support staff in cultivating personal social and emotional competencies and fostering the competencies of peers and students.

Build on Strengths and Experience

Schools, like the greater society, are becoming increasingly more diverse in culture, ethnicity, race, language, values, and beliefs. This diversity has countless positive benefits, but it can also present challenges.

Focus Area 1b: Continuous Improvement Connections

The core tool used in this guide is the Schoolwide SEL Implementation Rubric. The rubric provides an overview of a systemic approach to schoolwide SEL, and teams can review it to get a sense of what SEL looks like when it is coordinated across classrooms, the school, homes, and the community.

Focus Area 3

Develop a coordinated approach for supporting students’ social and emotional learning across the school, classrooms, homes, and communities.