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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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. |
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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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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. |
Support staff in cultivating personal social and emotional competencies and fostering the competencies of peers and students.
This collection of videos from CASEL, collaborating districts, and other producers are sorted by the Ten Indicators of Schoolwide SEL and other key categories to support you in visualizing, communicating, and generating discussion about SEL.
When instructional practices actively involve students in making meaning of content, they are more deeply engaged in their learning and have meaningful opportunities to practice SEL skills.
FAQs on Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
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Leverage strategic and aligned community partnerships that ensure students receive consistent SEL supports, increase access to a broad range of community services, and expand the professional learning opportunities for SEL.
Adopt an Evidence-Based Program for SEL
Evidence-based SEL programs are grounded in research and principles of child and adolescent development, and scientifically evaluated and shown to produce positive student outcomes.