Cultural Competence: The ability to examine the various social and cultural identities of one's own self and others, understand and appreciate diversity from a historically-grounded and strengths-focused lens, recognize and respond to cultural demands and opportunities, and build relationships across cultural backgrounds.
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Private: Continuous Improvement Connection: Student Social and Emotional Competence This tool provides an example of how to use assessment data to shed light on students' strengths and areas of improvement as part of Focus Area 4. |
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Private: Continuous Improvement Connection: Youth Social and Emotional Competence (OST) This tool (OST version) provides an example of how to use assessment data to shed light on youths' strengths and areas of improvement as part of Focus Area 4. |
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Student SEL Data Reflection Protocol Student perspective is essential for understanding school data and making equitable, inclusive, and culturally responsive decisions. This tool presents a student-led, structured process for students to reflect on data in partnership with adults, to observe trends and discuss ideas for improvement of SEL implementation. |
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Supporting Student Members of the SEL Team Including student members on a SEL team or any school leadership team primarily composed of adults requires a commitment from adults to support youth leaders, both during and between meetings. This tool provides some ways that adults can create equitable space for students in their role on the SEL Team. |
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Private: Continuous Improvement Connection: Student Behavior This tool provides an example of how to improve the response to student behavior infractions to support social-emotional development as part of Focus Area 3. |
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Strategies for Elevating Student Voice This tool offers examples of ways that staff can support and elevate a broad range of student perspectives and experiences as part of schoolwide SEL efforts. |
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Key Responsibilities of a Student Member of an SEL Team Student members of the SEL team work to ensure that the perspectives of their peers are represented and elevated to contribute to a more equitable learning environment. |
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Student Survey: How I feel about my classroom and school This simple survey has students rate their perception of school climate, adult support, and sense of belonging. It is intended as an informal measure for individual classroom teachers to invite feedback from students and reflect on areas for growth, and has not been validated as a formal evaluation tool. |
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Strategies for Gathering Student Feedback Students are the best source of information about what is working to help them learn and feel supported. Use this tool to develop a simple strategy to learn from students to continuously improve instruction to better meet their needs. |
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Principals, administrators, SEL team members, staff members, out-of-school time staff, and other adults can use this tool to assess personal strengths, think about how to model those strengths when interacting with others, and plan strategies to promote growth across areas of social competence. |