The CASEL Guide to Schoolwide SEL provides an intentional and collaborative implementation process. Find out where to begin.
The SEL team serves as a model for positive practices that promote healthy relationships among adults, students, and families. It’s highly beneficial to build a strong team dynamic and positive working relationship by developing group norms and team routines.
Foster supportive classroom environments that engage in explicit SEL and integrate SEL throughout instruction.
Integration of SEL and Academics
Social and emotional competencies serve as a foundation for achieving academic goals, while academic instruction also provides a ripe opportunity for teaching and practicing SEL.
By making the time to build the relationships that allow learners to feel a sense of community- that they are “in this together”- teachers create a safer, more equitable environment where all students participate and achieve.
Assess needs and resources to develop an SEL implementation plan with clear goals, action steps, and assigned ownership.
Develop a coordinated approach for supporting students’ social and emotional learning across the school, classrooms, homes, and communities.
Social and emotional learning is essential to every child’s education.
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.
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.